First Lines

We had an excellent debate over first lines yesterday. What's certain is that this space is perfect for sharing your favorite first lines. Drop a comment, if you will.

The Old Capital Readings

Oct 1: First two chapters (to page 39 in English text)
Oct 8: Next two chapters, "The Kimono Town" and "Kitayama Cedars", pages 39-80)

Snack

Weekly snack contributors:

1. Izumi
2. James
3. Duncan
4. Carol
5. Akiko
6. Izu
7. Kate
8. James
9. Annette
10. Izu
11. Akiko
12. Carol

Sept 24 Reading

We'll do one last story from Ishiguro: the final story in the collection, "Cellists". Following "Cellists" we'll switch to Kawabata's The Old Capital, weekly reading lengths to be determined.

Update for Sept 17!

We will skip the third short story in Ishiguro and go straight to the fourth. Read for next week, "Nocturnes".

Suggested Readings

Comment here if you have a book, short story, collection of short stories, or other work of fiction--and we'll consider nonfiction here too--to recommend for the book club.