I read this some time ago, and the book has been on my shelf too long. I'm making it available on bookcrossing.

From the back cover: "From Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules - and teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life, and for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them so special - and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day."

I'm adding this to Spatial's Bookbox of the Apocalypse (which is visiting my spouse this week) to replace a book I have taken out.

I've read this one, so I'm leaving this book in the bookbox for someone else, but wanted to add my comments.

I read the book some time back and enjoyed it, though it's so very bleak and heart-wrenching. (Ishiguro's collection Nocturnes was also quite good.)

The story's so leisurely that it takes a while for its true horrors to sink in, but they're all the more effective by then. Much of the story is a coming-of-age/love-triangle among a group of young people brought up at the same exclusive private school, and those aspects of the story are quite moving (and sometimes pretty funny). But it turns out that there's more to this school and its students than is apparent at first, and as the details come out - and become more immediate to the characters - it's very, very chilling.

[There's a 2010 film adaptation that's quite good, though I thought it missed some of the poignancy of the book. And there's a TV Tropes page on the book and film, with some items of interest.]

Received in the The Bookbox of the Apocalypse & Other Realities

I enjoyed this book. I started reading it because I just finished Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas, which is compared to this book. I wasn't quite sure what to expect at first. As it went on, I realized the true horror of what was happening. Sadly, I could see something like this happening in the future.

Released in the Science Fiction Box.

Please enjoy!

I’m on the fence up to whether to read this one or pass it on… I am just so not up for bleak and heart wrenching right now….

Cold and snowy (and absolutely gorgeous) and Salt Lake, so rather than brave traipsing from LFL to LFL, I decided to try a different kind of wild release. I offered eight books on BuyNothing, and within a day they’ve all found new homes.