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Chosen for January by Lizzy Siddal
According to my librarything catalogue I have a TBR of over 1000! So I won’t be using this book for further book recommendations. I will be using it, however, to flush out some forgotten titles to the top of the TBR and to remind myself about books read and enjoyed long ago. There’s a short synopsis of each title of 120 featured titles and a number of discussion questions, often supplemented by useful background information or complimentary reading lists (to make up the 500). The book can be used for reading groups or simply to help deepen individual reading. What differentiates this book from others such as The Bloomsbury Reading Group Guide, however, is its tone. Zany, madcap, irreverent and perhaps at times, simply inappropriate? How do you find this question in relation to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. In a sense these clones are on easy street – hardly any work, a good education, a free car, no financial worries. Did you ever find yourself wishing you were in their shoes? Would it be nice to live in a poetic state of looming tragedy, while reading magazines and loafing? Some people have all the luck, right? So is that a question designed to shock or is there a legitimate discussion to be had? It’s not exactly my approach to the hallowed sanctum of literature but I can see that this may well appeal to *cough* younger generations! Old fogeydom is approaching ever more rapidly it appears. Perhaps this is exactly what I need to brush out some cobwebs from my mind.
According to my librarything catalogue I have a TBR of over 1000! So I won’t be using this book for further book recommendations. I will be using it, however, to flush out some forgotten titles to the top of the TBR and to remind myself about books read and enjoyed long ago. There’s a short synopsis of each title of 120 featured titles and a number of discussion questions, often supplemented by useful background information or complimentary reading lists (to make up the 500). The book can be used for reading groups or simply to help deepen individual reading. What differentiates this book from others such as The Bloomsbury Reading Group Guide, however, is its tone. Zany, madcap, irreverent and perhaps at times, simply inappropriate? How do you find this question in relation to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
In a sense these clones are on easy street – hardly any work, a good education, a free car, no financial worries. Did you ever find yourself wishing you were in their shoes? Would it be nice to live in a poetic state of looming tragedy, while reading magazines and loafing? Some people have all the luck, right?
So is that a question designed to shock or is there a legitimate discussion to be had? It’s not exactly my approach to the hallowed sanctum of literature but I can see that this may well appeal to *cough* younger generations! Old fogeydom is approaching ever more rapidly it appears. Perhaps this is exactly what I need to brush out some cobwebs from my mind.
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