Whatcha Readin' Wednesday: Nocturnes

For many of us, we barely have the time to sit down and watch TV let alone read a good book. It's difficult to surrender our attention for hours to a single lengthy story. This book may prove to be a remedy for those of us who crave quality writing but don't have an excess of time.Kazuo Ishiguro has compiled five short stories to satiate your craving.

Amongst the melancholic, angst filled lives of the characters inhabiting Ishiguro's enlivened snapshot stories in Nocturnes, there is one transcendent beacon. When the light of day fades, music is the point of hope, the life force sustaining the aspirations and wills of the main characters as you follow them throughout world. Not every story may strike a cord with you, but I found a few to have hooks in them that bubble up within my memory from time to time. Throughout our lives we encounter people who change our lives and then never see them again, some of these stories embrace that cross cultural occurrence. And you are reminded that amidst every tragedy there is a hint of beauty.