Showing posts with label #japanesenovel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #japanesenovel. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 August 2015

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

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"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..."

The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
 

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This is a very interesting book at first you would think that it's a fantasy novel but you would be wrong. The fantasy elements in this novel are the beliefs of the people of the time, who believe the simplest thing to be the work of demons and spirits and if someone from today were to look at the same item they would be able to explain it simply and scientifically. This book is on the same lines as the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and is about a couple on a journey and the many things they discover about the world and about themselves 5/5 diamonds


Saturday, 1 August 2015

July Wrap up


My July Wrap Up

This month I was able to read 7 books which is pretty good given my present schedule the books I read are the Faeries Bones Trilogy which include Faerie Bones, Faerie Winter and Faerie After by Janni Lee Simner a really great dystopian/fantasy series with none of the insta love or love triangles that you get in most ya books. My review for the first book in the series is up on my blog the rest will be up soon. 

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Next I read The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro a great book about a journey taken by an elderly couple my review for this will also be up soon. 

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Next I read the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman another great coming of age book of a boy being raised by a graveyard.

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 Right after that I read Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha Van Leer. 

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 Lastly I read The Ice Dragon by George R.R. Martin a beautifully illustrated book 

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 My review of all these books will be up shortly.