💠Every few blog entries, I'll recommend two books from my reading list. I'm a very eccentric reader, so I'll post everything from historical fiction to homicidal manifestos.
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"There is nothing special in (you)...it is in those who love (you)."
Klara is an AF- an 'artificial friend'. Literally. She's the product of decades of scientific and social progress. And she's just one of several million 'friends' whose main purpose is to provide moral and intellectual companionship to the new class of genetically 'elevated' human children. In Ishiguro's usual heartbreaking, genre-bending style, Klara and the Sun is a masterpiece. Thoughtful, earnest, observational and with slight undertones of parody, the story of Klara's misunderstood and unconditional love for her human 'friend' Josie will stay with you long after you've turned the last leaf of this book.
If you want a deluge of thought-provoking quotes, a cry over your 3pm coffee, or a springboard for your own existential questions about what it means to be human and what it means to love and be loved, THIS is for you.
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If POWER were a play, I know it'd be this one.
A Raisin in the Sun is at once arresting and inspiring. The mundane suburban backdrop is coloured by the various painful hues of mid-50s America's civil rights struggles. Race, gender, social class and "no money" clash head-on in this celebration of faith, family and fearlessness. From the aspiring Black female doctor (we see you, Beneatha!) to the 'past-his- time' alcoholic father who is caught between his hope for a better future for his son and his disillusionment at the barriers that stand in the way of non-White Americans. To the starry-eyed, slightly deluded scholarship student from 'the motherland' and the well-to-do suitor who struggles to reconcile the labels he bears, 'black' and 'rich.' This dramedy is for you if you've ever asked the question: "what happens to a dream deferred?"
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