Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The Remains of the Day vs Never Let Me Go

Blurbs and Kazuo Ishiguro – welcome to episode 88! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether we want blurbs – i.e. do we do research on what we’re reading before we pick it up.

Blurbs and Kazuo Ishiguro – welcome to episode 88!

In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether we want blurbs – i.e. do we do research on what we’re reading before we pick it up. In the second half, we look at two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

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Incidentally, apologies for Hargreaves miaowing for his tea throughout… which, indeed, he had already eaten.

The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Talk of the Devil by Frank Baker

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Letters of Virginia Woolf

Essays by Gloria Steinem

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Mrs Parkington by Louis Bromfield

Gelett Burgess

The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Louis Bromfield

Barbara Pym

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro