SFist Reads

While the SFPL's great One City One Book program doesn't begin until this fall, they've already announced their next choice, The Hummingbird's Daughter.

According to Rosie Levy Merlin, One City One Book's Program Manager, "We'll have over 500 copies of the book available at SFPL soon, and people can already reserve one of the 500 titles so they'll have a nice brand-new book to borrow and read when they arrive!" Thanks for the heads up, Rosie!

Like many of you, SFist Emily finds the English countryside kind of creepy, so she was pleased to see Kazuo Ishiguro (of The Remains of the Day fame) elaborate this theme in his latest novel, Never Let Me Go. (Ed note: Hey, Rain and I read this too!) While skirting a policital debate about the ethics of human cloning and selling of organs, Ishiguro manages to paint a very disturbing picture of a world where these things are commonplace. Like Remains of the Day, the narrative style of this book is sort of slow and plodding, but it carries you through as you try to piece just exactly what is going to happen to the characters, and especially the narrator.