Table of Contents:
0:46 - Introductions / what would you be happiest to see disappear from your life mysteriously?
6:47 - Goodreads summary & bonus info about Yoko Ogawa
13:00 - Setting & specificity
16:24 - Mary brings up Annihilation again, drink
20:20 - The nontraditional protagonist; is the narrator passive?
26:42 - Making sense of the disappearances
30:34 - Dying on the hill of genre
31:50 - The novel within the novel
38:57–the end of the novel
50:30–is this book psychic?
55:05–ratings and last thoughts
1:04:31–a piece of feedback on Circe
1:07:02–what’s on the blog? What’s up next?
Articles referenced:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/books/yoko-ogawa-memory-police.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/749538789/quiet-surreal-drama-and-disappearing-objects-in-the-memory-police