{"id":10158,"date":"2011-01-27T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T23:13:07","slug":"never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The real challenge for this blog post is how to go about describing the plot of Never Let Me Go<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Kazuo Ishiguro without spoiling the plot twist.\u00a0 Because really, I can’t even say what the book is about without spoiling a surprising fact that you’ll discover about a quarter of the way into it.\u00a0 So\u00a0 I’ll do this as cryptically as possible.<\/p>\n

The story is being told by Kathy, who is now in her 30s and is reflecting on her childhood at an English\u00a0boarding\u00a0school called Hailsham.\u00a0 The students, completely isolated from the outside world, are all….special<\/em>.\u00a0 All I will say is that they have a unique origin and purpose, and they are constantly told that their well-being is very important.\u00a0\u00a0After reconnecting\u00a0with her two best friends \u00a0from Hailsham, Ruth and Tommy, Kathy looks back on her time at the school and how it prepared her\u00a0(and didn’t prepare her) for what was to come in her future.<\/p>\n

I know, that’s very cryptic.\u00a0 I will say that it’s a dystopian novel with some sci-fi elements, but don’t let that turn you off if you’re not a sci-fi fan.\u00a0 It’s really an interesting and thought-provoking story about friendship and what it means to grow up knowing your future is set in a certain way.\u00a0 Kazuo Ishiguro writes in a very conversational tone, which I enjoyed because I felt as though I was having a conversation with Kathy, personally hearing all\u00a0her old tales from Hailsham.\u00a0 It is particularly a good book for a book club, because it opens up a lot of discussion possibilities\u00a0on a controversial subject matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The real challenge for this blog post is how to go about describing the plot of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro without spoiling the plot twist.\u00a0 Because really, I can’t even say what the book is about without spoiling a surprising fact that you’ll discover about a quarter[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[523,1498,470,1168],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-drama","tag-dystopian","tag-friendship","tag-future-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}