I ❤this video, Sarah! I was looking forward to it, as I like so much this idea, this project, that you and Leo have. I myself love to re-read and The Remains of the Day is, I agree, a gem of a book. I read it a long time ago and has remained one of my favourite books. It is amazing how profoundly human the story is and how it reflects a turmoil, a raging tempest under the quiet waters of a butler's proper demeanour and unbearably rigid self-imposed (and tradition-imposed) rules. Paradise by Toni Morrison is going to be a re-read for me and I am really curious how I will feel about it this second time.
Welcome to the rereaders club! I'm a chronic rereader--it's my favorite kind of reading. In the past, I didn't annotate, but like you I've started, and I look forward to what that yields. Oh, The Remains of the Day! Stevens is so exquisitely written--the self-deception/unreliability in a first-person narrator is so difficult to do.
How great that I read this novel just a week ago, so I understood everything you said. Yes indeed, this is about professionalism vs amateurism. I can easily see how you at first reading might not have seen the machinations of nazi germany in influencing the naive Lord Darlington as “big” in the story as you noticed it this time. It is a gem of a book! Love it deeply.
Sarah 🤗 I also read '84, Charing' after your advise. it was good. re-reading same book, is kind of wasting time (if its a big size). There are so many books untouched. Let's move on. Also, some UA-camrs started this trend of re-reading. I am not fan of it!!! Happy reading!!
Loved you discussion of this book! This was my first Ishiguro and I loved it so much, definitely feel that I want to reread it someday. I love rereading but don’t do it very often so I’ve been trying to do it more in recent years 😊
Thanks! It was a while ago so since then I've also read Never Let Me Go and A Pale View of Hills :) I definitely want to read everything else Ishiguro has published, I just love his writing! @@HardcoverHearts
I ❤this video, Sarah! I was looking forward to it, as I like so much this idea, this project, that you and Leo have. I myself love to re-read and The Remains of the Day is, I agree, a gem of a book. I read it a long time ago and has remained one of my favourite books. It is amazing how profoundly human the story is and how it reflects a turmoil, a raging tempest under the quiet waters of a butler's proper demeanour and unbearably rigid self-imposed (and tradition-imposed) rules. Paradise by Toni Morrison is going to be a re-read for me and I am really curious how I will feel about it this second time.
Welcome to the rereaders club! I'm a chronic rereader--it's my favorite kind of reading. In the past, I didn't annotate, but like you I've started, and I look forward to what that yields. Oh, The Remains of the Day! Stevens is so exquisitely written--the self-deception/unreliability in a first-person narrator is so difficult to do.
How great that I read this novel just a week ago, so I understood everything you said. Yes indeed, this is about professionalism vs amateurism. I can easily see how you at first reading might not have seen the machinations of nazi germany in influencing the naive Lord Darlington as “big” in the story as you noticed it this time.
It is a gem of a book! Love it deeply.
Save this book to reread when you are 70, Sarah. Great books evolve just as readers evolve.
Sarah 🤗 I also read '84, Charing' after your advise. it was good. re-reading same book, is kind of wasting time (if its a big size). There are so many books untouched. Let's move on. Also, some UA-camrs started this trend of re-reading. I am not fan of it!!! Happy reading!!
Loved you discussion of this book! This was my first Ishiguro and I loved it so much, definitely feel that I want to reread it someday. I love rereading but don’t do it very often so I’ve been trying to do it more in recent years 😊
You picked a great one to start with!
Thanks! It was a while ago so since then I've also read Never Let Me Go and A Pale View of Hills :) I definitely want to read everything else Ishiguro has published, I just love his writing! @@HardcoverHearts