"It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."
first sentence of "The remains of the day" by #KazuoIshiguro on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-679-73172-5-first-sentence.php

@bookstodon Ooooh, this seems promising!

#GuillermodelToro #KazuoIshiguro #TheBuriedGiant

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/guillermo-del-toro-the-buried-giant

"I should hope, then, that by the time of my employer's return, I shall be in a position to pleasantly surprise him."
last sentence of "The remains of the day" by #KazuoIshiguro on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-679-73172-5-last-sentence.php

Curiosidade para quem não souber: o filme #Living, nomeado agora a dois #Óscares, com algum destaque na nomeações do escritor #KazuoIshiguro no argumento, é um remake do filme #Ikiru de #AkiraKurosawa. Está na #filmin, para quem quiser espreitar.

Hi folks,

Here's a share of very helpful and inspiring insights into developing your prose writing by one of my favorite authors, Kazuo Ishiguro.

Before you read it, ask yourself: "How do you write relationships?"

At least, that's a question I've been working with recently.

Enjoy!

And thanks to New Writing for publishing this!

https://www.newwriting.net/2023/01/nine-things-we-learned-from-kazuo-ishiguro-2/

#prose #writingtechnique #kazuoishiguro #newwritingmag

@drneevil Oh I've wanted to read Exhalation for the longest time!

Big fan of #AgathaChristie - I collect her 1970 paperbacks!

I just finished #Flames by #RobbieArnott.

I'm also reading Writing with Quiet Hands #PaulaMunier - it's a writing craft book.

Lined up are another by Robbie Arnott Limberlost, The Cassandra - a scifi by #SharmaShields, and Klara and the Sun by #KazuoIshiguro

I'm on leave for 5 weeks after the 24th December.... can't wait! We clearly love books 😍

He decidit acabar finalment el #7books que m'hagin marcat especialment en aquesta vida o en aquest moment (😃)

- His dark materials (llums del nord, el ganivet màgic, el telescopi d'ambre) - #PhilipPullman

- Ronja, la filla del bandoler - #AstridLindgren

- Siddharta + Demian - #HermannHesse

- Caliban i la bruixa - #SilviaFedericci

- La pell de la frontera - #FrancescSerés

- Les cosmicòmiques - #ItaloCalvino

- The Buried Giant -
#KazuoIshiguro

Reached my target of reading 50 books this year today. My favourites were #YoungMungo by #DouglasStewart , #Heaven by #MiekoKawakami , #Quichotte by #SalmanRushdie and #Klareandthesun by #KazuoIshiguro . Special mention to #Priestdaddy by #PatriciaLockwood .

I see quite a few people favouriting and boosting my Nov 28 toot (Kazuo Ishiguro, "On Being Human" (29:30~, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazaxJt4xG0).

Thank you to all who noticed, favourited, or boosted my toot.

I am so happy to see that Kazuo Ishiguro's idea is as valuable as I thought it would be.

#AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #KazuoIshiguro #ThankYou

Finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Quick review: Personally not as good as The Remains of the Day. The weird disconnected/passive way the characters approached the story mystery took something away from my enjoyment. Interesting medical/ethical questions raised, but never addressed in the book.

Kind of a miss, but not so much that I'm not reading anymore by Ishiguro.

#books #bookreview #kazuoishiguro #fiction #sci-fi #neverletmego

When you're writing and you feel like giving up because the words won't come, remember what Kazuo Ishiguro said –

"I don't tend to think everything I write is going to be scrutinized and people will look at it.

"I mean, I just assume I can just experiment with lots of things and throw it away, and I find that quite liberating."

Kazuo Ishiguro, "On Being Human" (29:30~, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazaxJt4xG0)

#AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #KazuoIshiguro

This is a fun idea

#7books to know me better

1) Lord of the Rings #Tolkein
2) The Great Gatsby #FScottFitzgerald
3) Travels with Charley #Steinbeck
4) Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary - #GeraldHorne #PaulRobeson
5) Never Let Me Go #KazuoIshiguro
6) The Bell Jar #SylviaPlath
7) Good Omens #Pratchett #Gaiman

Be interested to know what yours are if you want to share

This is a fun idea

#7books to know me better

1) Lord of the Rings #Tolkein
2) The Great Gatsby #FScottFitzgerald
3) Travels with Charley #Steinbeck
4) Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary - #GeraldHorne #PaulRobeson
5) Never Let Me Go #KazuoIshiguro
6) The Bell Jar #SylviaPlath
7) Good Omens #Pratchett #Gaiman

A random choice of #7Books on a particularly lazy #Saturday afternoon

To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee

The Tommyknockers #StephenKing

Dune #FrankHerbert

The Last Enchantment #MaryStewart

The Remains of the Day #KazuoIshiguro

La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi #PaoloGiordano

King Jesus #RobertGraves

Favourite authors for #Bookstodon ?#MargaretAtwood #KazuoIshiguro #JonasJonasson #JoanneHarris #NicolaTallis #RebeccaRideal #PeterFrankopan - so difficult to chose. If you asked me again, the list may well be different.

@albinokid

#KazuoIshiguro #KurtVonnegut #JohnGardner #JonathanLethem #PhilipDick

@RebeccaBradley I'm listening to an audiobook of Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse, I'm reading an old copy of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I never got around to, and an advance copy of A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon! Lots of good reads there!

#books #reading #dailyreads #adayoffallennight #samanthashannon #feveredstar #rebeccaroanhorse #neverletmego #kazuoishiguro #fiction #fantasy

Now that we've moved, I'm starting to work through all my books at home I picked up but never read.

I read The Remains of the Day a few years ago and loved it. Meant to read more Kazuo Ishiguro stuff after, and then just never did. Then Klara and the Sun came out this year and I realized I still haven't read this gem

Looking forward to seeing how it goes!

#books #dailyreads #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego

Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land & conquest?
#KazuoIshiguro

I read The Buried Giant this morning so now I'm just going to go cry for the rest of the day.

#AmReading #kazuoIshiguro