Okay, so I’m totally still a blog flake.
But I’m doing the book meme, because I’m reading a book that is exactly as good as everyone says it is, and it just happens to be the closest one (I know!):
“It was, as I say, a little game we all indulged in to some extent. Even so, it was Ruth who took it further than anyone else. She was the one always pretending to have finished anything anyone happened to be reading; and she was the only one with this notion that the way to demonstrate your superior reading as to go around telling people the plots of novels they were in the middle of.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
And from the flyleaf, from the review in The Onion:
“It’s amazing how Ishiguro says so much, and so well, about people who themselves say so little.”