Book Club - October

So back in August I really wanted to be part of a book club.  So I looked into my library and found out that you can get Book Club Kits.  In the Kits you get 10 books, some questions to get discussions going and you can keep the books for 6 weeks.  I asked around and got four other friends to join.  I said that we would start the book club in September since we were all busy with summer and things would slow down by then.  We voted on a book and I distributed books in September and we met in October when I distributed the second book we had picked.  The first book we read was Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed--even comforted--by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood—and about their lives now.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance-and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.

The book description sounded very interesting but when I read it I really did not care for it.  The narrator Kathy was kind of boring and she ranted on and was all over the place.  The idea of the book, which I won't give away could have go on to a really great direction but it didn't.  The ending was abrupt and I was expecting something bigger to happen.  I really do not recommend this book at all.  But at least my book club had a great time talking about it and coming up with what we think should have happened to make it more intersting.

Book Club book for November - Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander