Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Book for Sale: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go at P250

SYNOPSIS:

Never Let Me Go is narrated by a 31-year old woman named Kathy. She's remembering her days at Hailsham, a boarding school where creativity and health were emphasized. None of the children have parents or surnames. She has rekindled friendships with Ruth and Tommy, friends from her Hailsham days. The three of them find they don't fit into society, that they're not been prepared for a normal life. The children of Hailsham are all clones, bred and raised solely to be organ donors once they're adults. Kathy and Ruth both fight over Tommy's attention, and he has fits of temper. The three of them, though, agree to hold onto each other forever, unsure of the future that awaits them. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel has received high praise with the Guardian saying, "This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been."

EXCERPT:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400078776&view=excerpt

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Feb Three's Adventure

There's much to do when you've got time on your hands. It used to bother me when people brush me off as a bum, but I guess they just don't like it when they're busy and stressed out and someone else is having an undue vacation leave. But anyway, February 3 was the birthday of one of my dear friends, and I made that person a card!

A note: Sorry for the lousy edit. I currently have NO PHOTOSHOP D:< But point is, there are turdles everywhere! X3 It is called The Great Cosmic Turtle Convocation. Or Turtles in the Sky.
:3

Last year I'm afraid I slacked off making birthday cards and such, although I have been giving people it as an annual heart-and-soul gift ever since I can remember. But this year, since I've been meaning to keep an organizer so I can finally remedy the fact that I keep forgetting birth dates, I will vow to churn out chunks of more heart-and-soul to people I deem worthy of keeping them :D

But the adventure part of it all is that I rode Eldritch to deliver the turtle card! :D I'm telling you, you must ride a bike to somewhere quite far at least once in your life. You meet all sorts of people who smile at you (in a kind way), learn how to navigate and predict car behavior, feel the breeze in your hair etc etc 8D

Well, so it was tiring, but it's more fulfilling that way :3