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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4.0
Whether you consider this as literary fiction or science fiction, the book is so much better than the film; Ishiguro's prose on friendship, coming-of-age, desire and all types of love is beautiful and touching.
I actually enjoyed the complexities of the three main characters, and how they are nicely developed through the story. I love how the book made me feel a semblance of hope, only to feel the heartbreak at the end. Beautiful.
I actually enjoyed the complexities of the three main characters, and how they are nicely developed through the story. I love how the book made me feel a semblance of hope, only to feel the heartbreak at the end. Beautiful.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
2.0
Teenybopper feel good enough but I probably would've enjoyed this more had I read it 20 years earlier, before cynicism set in. :D
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
3.0
In this memoir on the end of life, Christopher Hitchens wrote of dying in his trademark wit and dry humour. Particularly touched as he wrote of the fear of losing his voice, losing the ability to write and type, and his cancer eventually degrading his purpose and life’s work to muteness.
His wife’s afterword is beautiful and so filled with love, it’s heartbreaking.
If you liked When Breath Becomes Air, this is slightly of similar page (but Netflix, more than Hollywood). I think it’s brave of the dying to write their memoirs like this. I’ve heard some criticise this as self-indulgent, but we do need to talk about dying more often than we do. If only to voice out what it is really like (because we never know what to expect do we), and to also celebrate the life we live.
His wife’s afterword is beautiful and so filled with love, it’s heartbreaking.
If you liked When Breath Becomes Air, this is slightly of similar page (but Netflix, more than Hollywood). I think it’s brave of the dying to write their memoirs like this. I’ve heard some criticise this as self-indulgent, but we do need to talk about dying more often than we do. If only to voice out what it is really like (because we never know what to expect do we), and to also celebrate the life we live.