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