Welcome to April where we are going to meander through the month, reading this, reading that, dipping our toes into a little bit of poetry, an epistolary or two, maybe learning about astronomy, or history, or humor. And dragons!
Our dragon of the month is Querig from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant which I'm looking forward to reading.
"In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share.
By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory."
Ishiguro is a Nobel prize literature winner who has written classics such as Remains of the Day to science fiction stories like Klara and the Sun.
Happy meandering!
