#Kazou Ishiguro

[eannpatterson]

Clouds, bees and artificial friends

Anthropomorphism featured in several of the books that I read during my recent digital detox [see ‘Entropy and junkies‘ on August 2nd, 2023].  I really liked the opening section of ‘When I Sing, Mountains Dance‘ by Irene Sola which is narrated from the perspective of clouds that arrive over a landscape with painfully full ‘black bellies, burdened with cold, dark water, lightening bolts,…

[xinesegalas]

South Park's Crystal Ball: A Look at Klara and The Sun's Speculative AI Future

Immerse yourself in Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and The Sun," where AI meets humanity. Explore the power of storytelling and uncover intriguing connections to pop culture, like the iconic series South Park. Join us on this literary journey!

Welcome to the Lit Lounge, a captivating haven where literature aficionados can gather to delve into the depths of intriguing books and embark on thought-provoking literary journeys. I invite you to join me as I explore the mesmerizing world of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun, delving into its profound themes and drawing fascinating connections to unexpected corners of popular culture.  I…

[nagdabbit]

books! this is some of the stuff I've liked in the past couple of yrs.

Nobody is Talking About This, as already suggested

horror: Ring Shout - P. Djeli Clark. Black women fighting KKK but also there are weird alien things.

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle. queer woman fighting a church conversion camp but also there are weird demon things.

The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor Lavalle. this is a Lovecraft retelling set in 1920s Harlem so maybe too close to actual Lovecraft for you? but it definitely had me staring at the wall occasionally.

not horror, but weird: We Had to Remove this Post - Hanna Bervoets. super short and fucking WEIRD. about a woman who works doing quality control responding to reports for a twitteresque company.

not horror or weird, but goofy enough to possibly break a reading slump from sheer amusement: Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi. Our hero (gender never given) gets a job working for a secret organization. It's basically Jurassic Park but make it kaiju and with less science and more jokes.

I also recently discovered a small queer indie press called Neon Hemlock and I've loved everything I've read from them so far so if you can find any of their stuff, I recommend! And they're almost all novellas so nothing really draggy.

fucking fuck yesssss thanj you and god bless im adding adding all of these to my reading list immediately

im so pumped todd ordered both camp damascus and bury your gays the other day, im so excited to read them! or try to at least if my brain cooperates

[bughideout]

My reading goal of the year is 20 books

Books I've read this year

Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Never let me go, Kazou Ishiguro

Heaven, Meiko Kawakami

If cats disappeared from the world, Genki Kawamura

Minor detail, Adania Shibli

Notes from underground, fyodor dostoevsky

Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell

Almond, Won-pyung Sohn

These violent delights, Micah Nemerever

Minor Detail is a book that left a strong impression on me, it's a short read and I cannot recommend it enough. I read the entire thing in one sitting. Normally I would be capable of reading more through a year but it's been a really tough year, becoming fatherless and all. (Hes not dead, just not in my life, he sucks) and graduating from 10th grade and starting a new school is very tough for me as an autistic person. Most of these books were read in January and then I didn't read way too much throughout the year until recently.

My tbr/books I am reading

The brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoevsky

The plague, Albert camus

The world according to physics, Jim al-khalili

The unbearable lightness of being, Milan Kundera

Life for sale, yukio mishima

Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

All the lovers in the night, meiko kawakami

White nights, fyodor dostoevsky

The double, fyodor dostoevsky

A man's place, Annie Ernoux

[kitten4sannie]

hello! I just want to say that I’m currently reading this book called Klara and the Sun by Kazou Ishiguro and it somehow reminded me of your fic about your edging smut fic of Yunho in space 🥹

you were reading a novel and you thought of my space yuyu fic???? (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀) that’s ,, wow i’m really honored that you still had my fic in your memory ;; i’m gonna go cry nowwww thank you for taking the time to tell me this love :’) <333

[vincent-tran]

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

This is the first (non-fiction) book I finished this year. The storyline is quite simple and I could figure out the theme after a few chapters.

Nevertheless, this book's storytelling got me hooked on Kazuo's work. It's apparently not simple to become a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Even the background is in the 90s in the Great Britain, the main concept is rather futuristic about human cloning to cultivate organs. The story revolves around three friends: Kathy, Ruth and Tom, who spent their childhood at Hailsham - sort of a boarding school for clones (or "students" as mentioned in the book). The story follows the narrative of Kathy, and how she tried to reconcile with her childhood in Hailsham, the time being in the Cottages as a transition period from students to carers and then donors.

The terms in this universe are used selectively such as "complete" meaning "dead due to organ donations" or "possible" as the people whom the clones resemble. These terms somehow implied that the fates of the clones are determined from the beginning.

The main plot is about Hailsham being the centre that advocates proving the humanity of the clones. They collected art from the "clones"/students and toured around the world to raise funds and awareness about the clones industry.

The novel is so humane in so many small details. Like this way Kathy checked the porn stars' magazine, because she thought that she might find her "possible" in one of these magazines as she is also horny all the time. Or the way, Tom yeld in the empty field after knowing the truth from Miss Emily and Madam and then, Kathy said it seems like Tom also knew about the truth so he is also turbulent.

The hope of deferral even though just a false hope has highlighted how humane these clones can be. It's so touching how Ruth finally burst out her secrets and guilt to persuade Kathy and Tom to try for the defer, how Tom tried his best to reveal his "soul" through his drawings of peculiar animals in his sketchbook.

In the last part of the novel, Kathy went to Hailsham and looked at it from afar and then drove away to where she needed to be. It's so heartbroken how she could just accept the brutal reality. But as someone commented about the novel, the people in Kazou's novels don't fight against their fates. They just endure what fates brought to them.

I think "endure" is a beautiful and accurate description of what happened here with the "clones". They live in their universe, where their lives's purposes have been determined before they are created. It's somehow just like us living in this world. Sometimes I just think that some supernatural entity looks at us (human beings on Earth) like a colony of ants in a gigantic glass box. We somehow act and function in a predefined destiny that we are aware but no matter how much we fight, we somehow just fall in line with what is prepared for us.

Anyway, great book to read and look forward to watching the movie inspired by this book.

[alexalblondo]

I haven't been reading alot recently but some of my faves are these, hope i can talk you into reading atleast one 😭

Never let me go by kazou ishiguro (I stared at the wall for 10mins straight after finishing it and still get this hollow feeling whenever I think about the ending, def recc jumping in without knowing anything)

Lotr (I don't think there is anything I can say about it that hasn't already been said)

The earthsea cycle by Ursula Le Guin (you can read anything by her really, such a talented author who truly understand what the genre stands for and never reduces it to just wizards and dragons)

No longer human by Osamu Dazai (really enjoyed the prose of this one, the story is fine but i was there for the beautiful writing. Cannot imagine how well its written in japanese if the translation made me wanna gnaw on my hand)

Demian by Hermann Hesse (god if I could steal his writing skill, every sentence is an experience)

I would love to hear about some works you like too 🥹🩷

the first one sounds amazing and I'll def look into it but anon, I cannot get over you recommending a book by Hermann Hesse this takes me back <333

(also lotr is amazing and I love her so much she is an icon)

[stickyfrogtoy]

[wellesleybooks]

Kazuo Ishiguro has his prize and we have copies of his Nobel Lecture.

My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture  by Kazou Ishiguro

[generalblizzarddreamer]

Never Let Me Go review

3.75/5 stars

@readerbookclub

I did this for my last review too but this book gave me dark academia and coffee shop vibes. I felt like the main character was sitting with me and taking me with her down memory lane. The tense of the book was laid back. If it wasn’t for one thing I would have rated it 5 stars. 

I had a hard time understanding what was going on. Maybe it was just me but the concept of clones and possibles and why Hailsham existed and their goals were really murky to me. It was explained a bit more in one of the very last chapters but it was difficult to understand exactly what was happening in the world of Never Let Me Go. 

One thing I really loved though was Kath and Tommy. I hated (and I mean hated) Ruth with Tommy and shipped Kath with him since the beginning. I loved the dynamics of their relationships and I never though Ruth was patient enough to deal with Tommy being a ditz all the time. 

Overall it was such a pleasant read and a recommend it to people who like the dark academia and coffee shop aesthetics. 

[nagdabbit]

oooo i got tagged by @sybilius (🥰🥰 fank you) to do a list of comfort thimgs and umfortunately im drumk im so sorry i still refuseto turm on autocorreect but ill try hard here we go

comfort movie: as we kmow i do not watch manymovies but probably like kong skull islamd, big eden, or in bruges

comfort series (bomus): hannibal. fuckim love hannibal. does dimension20 count? that too. slesspecially a court offey amd flowers

comfort foodd: pistachio semlar, tostones and kechup, pamcakes

confort clothes: siobhans coolege hoodie amd crocs

comfort somg: wild montama skies - john demver & emmylou harris, bleed out - mountaim goats, hold the girl - rina sawayama, screamy dreamy - laura jame grace amd the devuorimg mothers

comfort book: the buried giamt by kazou ishiguro. nothimg to add perfec book

confort game: hades, pillers of etermity, coral islamd. im replayimg pillers i swear im gomna romance aloth this time im not gomma fucj the hornt fishman

i never kmow who to tag cuz i dummo if people actually likeme amd i assume that its always gomma be umwanted so like ifyou wanma do it amd youre readimg this consider yourself tagged tellem daggs semt ya

[wkemeup]

What did you read during your vacation? Which one was your fave?

Klara and the Sun by Kazou Ishiguro (3.5✨)

The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (4✨)

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon (4✨)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (5✨)

They were all good but House in the Cerulean Sea was my favorite!

[melody-studyblr]

books i've read so far this year:

if you have any questions on any of them pop into my asks and let me know :) and of course recs are greatly appreciated haha!

the remains of day (kazou ishiguro)

2. the professor (charlotte brontë)

3. agnes grey (anne brontë)

4. the double (fyodor dostoevsky)

5. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo (taylor jenkins reid)

6. tender is the night (f. scott fitzgerald)

7. the extraordinaries (tj klune)

8. hamnet (maggie o'farrell)

9. rules of civility (amor towles)

10. flash fire (tj klune)

11. the perks of being a wallflower (stephen chobsky)

12. heartstopper x4(alice oseman)

13. the beautiful and damned (f. scott fitzgerald)

14. malibu rising (taylor jenkins reid)

15. heidi (johanna spyri)

16. night (elie wiesel)

*these are in order !

[slutforwings]

ive now read 2 kazou ishiguro books and they have the following in common: a story that keeps hinting and hinting at what the reader doesnt know and it keeps you on your toes the whole time and its so so strange but you're SO close to finding out more. and then you get an ending to the story being told but there's still SO many more questions and just a feeling of. was this it. huh.

ngl, theyre still good books. had a ton of fun reading them. however. what the fuck.

[jadelotusflower]

2021 Roundup: Reading

I read 28 books in 2021, an improvement on last year but below my goal (two fiction, one non-fiction a month). Looking back at this list there is definitely a theme, I suppose my goal for 2022 is to step out of my wheelhouse (western historical) and aim for more diversity in setting and authorship.

I still have a bunch on my to read pile but got through a few this year - so open to recommendations!

Fiction:

The Boleyn King - Laura Anderson

Samara Island and the Blood Witch - Luke Summers

Hag Seed - Margaret Atwood

Benevolence - Julie Janson

One Day - David Nicholls

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

A Column of Fire - Ken Follett

The Duke and I - Julia Quinn

Faeries - Brian Froud and Alan Lee

Circe - Madeline Millar

The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood

The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith

The Once and Future King - TH White

The Good People - Hannah Kent

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found there - Lewis Carroll

The Remains of the Day - Kazou Ishiguro

Katherine Parr: The Sixth Wife - Alison Weir

The Viscount who loved me - Julia Quinn

Contact - Carl Sagan

Non-Fiction:

Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe

She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England - Elizabeth Norton

Mythos - Stephen Fry

Don’t call it a cult: Keith Raniere and the women of NXIVM - Sarah Berman

Britain After Rome: the Fall and Rise 400 to 1070 - Robin Fleming

[rose-of-tori]

Tag Game

A huge thank you to @rose-nebulijia for tagging me! Sorry it took me 10 hundred years to actually respond ^.^ For those who don't know, I'm Fuzzball457 on Ao3 :)

Rules: Tag nine people you want to know better!

Favorite color: probs orange or dark purple - ask me in ten minutes and you'll get a different answer

Currently reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison for uni and The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro + a truck load of ff (currently mainly cdramas with the occasional TUA fic)

Last Song: spotify says Madonna by Luna & I Wanna Be Your Slave by Maneskin, youtube says THIS cover of the Winter Begonia OST

Last series: currently knee-deep in Winter Begonia (wow that is WeiLan levels of intense gay eye contact), last series I finished was Move to Heaven (10000% recommend) + a miscellaneous handful of true crime documentaries

Last movie: i really don't watch movies very often b/c i am impatient...my Netflix history says the last movie I watched was Paddleton.

Sweet, savoury or spicy: i have an insane sweet tooth

Craving: uhhhh??? I mean I'm always craving some PingXie? Also always craving solid ace representation and waffles (not necessarily together).

Currently working on: my never ending slew of reading/researching/writing for university, some miscellanous fics for Beyond Evil and k-pop, but the biggest drain on my time atm is gearing up for NaNoWriMo, which I've never done before and I"m hoping to use to rewrite/second draft my MFA novel/manuscript.

Tagging: tots no pressure, some of you barely know me ^.^, but some peeps I want to know more about (probs b/c i love ur writing): @laireshi @alxina @pissmeoffanddie @fizferret @daydreamorama

ummmm I think everyone else I know has already been tagged?? Sorry if anyone got double-tagged. But if u see this, feel free to join in :D Hope everyone's having a good day!