#The Memory Police

[quotespile]

Most things you worry about end up being no more than that — just worries.

Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

#literature #quotes #Yōko Ogawa #The Memory Police #quote #books #lit

[gael-garcia]

YES, YES, YES and YES

#THIS IS TOO GOOD #lily gladstone #charlie kaufman #reed morano #the memory police

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Yōko Ogawa #The Memory Police #quote #lit #books #words

[soracities]

But I thought about them, wondering whether they were able to eat dinner at a proper table, with all the dishes and glasses they needed, whether they slept in comfortable beds...[if] the little boy’s fingernails [had] grown out inside those sky-blue gloves...

Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (trans. Stephen Snyder)

#q #lit #quotes #prose #yoko ogawa #the memory police #devotionals #reading #japanese lit #m #x

[samireads]

March wrap up. I was coming off the SKZ high from last month and I went to Japan… this was the result 🫣

#2023 reads #March 2023 #violets #kyung sook shin #I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki #baek se hee #sweet bean paste #durian sukegawa #the memory police #yoko ogawa #strange weather in tokyo #hiromi kawakami #the vegetarian #hang kang #books #reading #bookblr #bookstagram #Japanese lit #korean lit #literature #tbr

[luckydiorxoxo]

Lily Gladstone to star in Charlie Kaufman’s adaptation of ‘THE MEMORY POLICE’ for director Reed Morano.

#reed morano #lily gladstone #melanin #the memory police #charlie kaufman

[whilereadingandwalking]

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder, is a sweet story about a woman who begins working for a mathematician whose memory refreshes every 80 minutes. She and her young son quickly forge a genuine close bond with the professor, a genius who is simply struggling at a point in his life. It's a beautiful, quick read about the beauty of numbers, forging unlikely connections, and Japanese baseball.

Content warnings for dementia, chronic illness, grief, blood, panic attacks

#the housekeeper and the professor #yoko ogawa #yōko agawa #books in translation #the memory police #women in translation #my book reviews

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa.

#books of 2023 #the memory police #yoko ogawa #books #book photography #a review popped up somewhere that made me think this could count as driscoll-adjacent #giving it a shot to see!! #also yeah i know it wasn't on my Ambitions TBR Stack leaf me aloooone #babel was supposed to take me more than twelve (12) days to read lmao #i'm gonna do this one and then start split tooth i think #i did also get another migrations box in the mail today and i MIGHT fuck around and read some of those sooner rather than later #again: we'll see!!

[bracketsoffear]

The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa) "The story is set in an alternate Japan where people's memories of certain things and concepts (e.g. birds, hats, winter, books, seasons, even their sense of self) are slowly taken away from their collective minds for 'their safety' by the titular Memory Police, a government force of sorts. This forced forgetting goes to the point where they can't physically perceive that concept; birds are weird creatures because no one remembers what a bird is like, and it's always winter because no one remembers what spring is. The story even ends with the unnamed protagonist (along with several others) eventually fading away from existence (read: forgetting) as memories of certain body parts and finally the concept of the human body is taken away by the Memory Police. It's like if the vase from MAG 38 formed and entire task force to do its job.

This one has narrative potential too; imagine a statement where someone slowly lose memories of certain things after reading this Leitner, gradually becoming an unreliable narrator as reality slips away from their conscious."

Don't Go to Sleep! (R.L. Stine) "Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one night. When everyone's in bed. He sneaks into the guest room and falls asleep. Poor Matt. He should have listened to his mom. Because when Matt wakes up, his whole life has changed. For the worse. And every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in a new nightmare… "

Inception, for kids! Whenever Matt falls asleep, he changes reality -- and a group of special agents want to stop him by putting him to sleep, permanently.

#spiral poll #the spiral #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Yoko Ogawa #The Memory Police #Don't Go to Sleep! #goosebumps #R.L. Stine

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 019

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

“Even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”

#books #2023 reads #the memory police #yōko ogawa #booklr #lit edit

[alexandrarosa]

East Asian literature/movies/shows I’ve been currently enjoying and falling in love with:

Already consumed:

The housekeeper and the professor (or my preferred title: Professor’s beloved equation) by Yōko Ogawa – Japanese slice of life (find my short review here)

My neighbor Totoro by Studio Ghibli

Revenge: Eleven dark tales by Yōko Ogawa – slice of life-ish horror

First Love: Hatsukoi – slice of life Japanese romance (find my analysis here)

Little Forest – Korean slice of life movie

Something in the rain – Korean slice of life romance

If cats disappeared from the world by Genki Kawamura – Japanese slice of life meets Goethe’s Faust

The guest cat by Takashi Hiraide – the most slice of life book I’ve read

When the weather is fine – korean slice of life romance (find my posts about it here and here)

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa – dystopian fiction (if you enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury you’ll love that too)

I will be your bloom – Japanese… I don’t even know how to describe the genre – it was wild, weird and wonderful (the analysis will be coming your way soon)

Sweet bean paste by Durian Sukegawa – Japanese slice of life

Your eyes tell – Japanese drama/romance – it wrecked me thank you very much, can’t recommend it enough

Please look after my mom by Kyung-sook Shin – Korean drama, very emotional

Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami – Japanese romance, psychological drama

Currently consuming:

Garden by Hiroko Oyamada

To be consumed:

Ponyo by Studio Ghibli

Arrietty by Studio Ghibli

The wind rises by Studio Ghibli

Love like the falling petals – Japanese romance movie

#Japan #Japanese #slice of life #japanese slice of life #first love hatsukoi #hatsukoi #the housekeeper and the professor #yōko ogawa #haruki murakami #norwegian wood #sweet bean paste #little forest #slow life #hiroko oyamada #the memory police #books #Korean #south korea #Korea #kdrama #jdrama #when the weather is fine #something in the rain #i will be your bloom #my neighbor totoro #ponyo ghibli #studio ghibli #the secret world of arrietty #korean drama #Japanese drama

[quotespile]

People — and I’m no exception — seem capable of forgetting almost anything, much as if our island were unable to float in anything but an expanse of totally empty sea.

Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

#literature #quotes #Yōko Ogawa #The Memory Police #quote #books #lit

[klainesheilen]

all these little notes hidden around my university and its library

after a little more than a month, I've finally finished What my bones know by Stephanie Foo. I'd say that the book is one of the main reasons why I was in a reading slump in April. The memoir was a heavy read, because of its trauma talk, but also the insights of her therapy sessions or other ways, like mediating or yoga, that Foo attempt to heal herself from CPTSD. I had to put it down and think about what I just read, how I can see some of her behaviours in my own life. This memoir gave me many things to think about for my own life, for my own healing journey. Five stars. No discussion.

Next read will be The memory police by Yoko Ogawa

#personal #bookblr #books #academia #university #studyblr #library #healing #what my bones know #stephanie foo #book review #book discussion #the memory police #yoko ogawa

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Yōko Ogawa #The Memory Police #quote #lit #books #words

[soracities]

“The few flowers in the garden other than roses had survived—bellflowers, a couple of spiny cacti, some gentians. They bloomed discreetly, as though embarrassed to have been spared. The breeze seemed to discriminate, choosing only the rose petals to scatter.

A rose garden without roses was a meaningless, desolate place, and it was terribly sad to see the trellises and other signs of all the care that had been lavished on the flowers. The murmur of the river did not reach me here and the rich, soft soil made a pleasant sound underfoot. With my hands thrust in my pockets, I wandered across the hill as though walking through a cemetery of unmarked graves.

In years past, I had carefully studied the stems, leaves, and branches and had read the tags that identified the different varieties, but I realized now that I was already unable to remember what this thing called a rose had looked like.”

Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (tr. Stephen Snyder)

#q #lit #quotes #prose #yoko ogawa #the memory police #if i show you the roses will you follow? #reading #japanese lit #m #x

[heycressy]

“You may think that the memories themselves vanish every time there’s a disappearance, but that’s not true. They’re just floating in a pool where the sunlight never reaches. All you have to do is plunge your hand in and you’re bound to find something. Something to bring back into the light.”

#book #the memory police #booklr