Im struggling to come up with semi-coherent thoughts for this book cuz I read it in under 12 hours in a lovely train journey - so I'm guessing I didn't give it time to settle in my brain.

I shall try to structure some thoughts:

1. This book slaps and a part of it has to do with my bias: I'm quite fascinated with the whole AI, sounds-dystopian-ish-but-actually-an-axploration-of-the-near-future kinda genre because it's a vessel for vvvvvery interesting inquiries into what tf are we? What does it mean to be a human? And where does highly sophisticaded AI fit in this thought experiment? So any piece of media that deals with this Im curious about - and the author tackles it beautifully and with elegance.

2. In the book you follow Klara's life from beginning to end. Throughout the book I found myself performing the Turing test over and over again, seemingly trying to find the humanness in Klara, seeing it so clearly sometimes, yet often times almost being able to read the code in her algorithm. But then again, what is it about "humanness"? What am I looking for? And what will it change, whether she has it or not?

Well I'm full of questions aren't I!!! TL;DR: Read this book if thinking about AI and the inevitable hyper technologic future of humanity is a guilty pleasure of yours xxx