I finished Jose Saramago's Blindness over the weekend. I think the thing that surprised me the most was getting to the end and realizing that I hadn't noticed that none of the characters had names, just descriptions. That comment probably makes the novel seem like some sort of weird modernist thing without a plot or purpose but that's not the case. I don't want to give away the plot, but the Blindness of the title is literal, and it's contagious.

I started John Nichol's The Sterile Cuckoo. I have a feeling it's going to need to go on my netflix queue now out of curiousity.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 12:43 PM