Links for the East Side Readers' January discussion.
Yoko Ogawa - Wikipedia
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Wikipedia : includes links to math concepts
LitLovers Book Club Guide : includes a Discussion Guide, Plot summary - Synopsis, Book Reviews, Author Bio.
Traumatic Brain Injuries: Memory Impairment : Long discussion of issues written by Dr. Glen Johnson, a Clinical Neuropsychologist.
Learning from Baseball : Links to sites using baseball to teach mathematics.
Music video: "Love Mathematics" by Base Ball Bear (Japanese) : I love getting caught in the WWW!
50 First Dates : Drew Barrymore's memory lasts for a day. Nice movie.
Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss : Man loses all memory but childhood. Good first novel.
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Great meeting!
Seems like everyone liked the Ogawa book; many people even understood the math, baseball, and neuroscience! What a terrific group you are!
We realized names weren't needed; math can be poetic; cooking is a logical progression of actions; families are where you find them; numbers have names; zero is not nothing, it's something; both the boy & his mother found fathers; .. and as Dolores noted:
The novel says something about openness to look for new ways to find answers, perseverance in trying. Ideas that can be applied to other areas of life. Also about overcoming difficulties in understanding those who are different from us.
A great fun read, simplicity of language, simplicity of form, simplicity of content, but complexity in detail and relationship.
Jinni... re: the formula he wrote down... it was in perfect elegant form and equal to zero, symbolizing that the fight could end, everything was already perfectly fine. I think.
I enjoyed reading The Housekeeper and the Professor. One of the best I have recently read. My comments on the book:
Very original, With practically no plot and little action, kept me interested from beginning to end.
The best for me: Playing with the numbers along with the characters. Brought back to mind the Math classes in high school and college when we looked for the "elegant" way to solve a problem (page 16). As the Professor said: (page 49) "a problem isn't finished just because you found yhe correct answer."
The meaning of living in the present and the possibility of establishing true relationships in the present. A necessity for the Profesor, and the filling of a vacuum in the lives of the Housekeeper and his son. It makes one consider the meaning of "family," the desire to be part of one.
The lack of proper names for the characters did not bother me. They are defined by what they do, what they have lived, what they represent; we get to know them in their strengths and weaknesses. No matter the ambiguity left about the attraction between the Professor and the Housekeeper, and the little we learn about the affair between the Professor and his sister-in-law before the accident.
The novel says something about openness to look for new ways to find answers, perseverance in trying. Ideas that can be applied to other areas of life. Also about overcoming difficulties in understanding those who are different from us.
Just finished the Ogawa book. How divinely elegant! I'm recommending it to my book group here in Boynton.
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