{"id":6717,"date":"2007-06-18T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2015-05-30T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:38:33","slug":"never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6717","title":{"rendered":"<i>Never Let Me Go<\/i>, by Kazuo Ishiguro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1400078776&#038;asins=1400078776&#038;linkId=MGS6LTVU2VAGCCN7&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nI finished the first book on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6665\">Summer Reading Challenge<\/a> &#8211; <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400078776\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1400078776&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=JUHKSMU7WHV7PG7K\">Never Let Me Go<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1400078776\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i> by Kazuo Ishiguro.  I read it in a day and a half.  I was really chilled by it.  Scared.  Very sad.  And I am GLAD nobody leaked to me what it was really about &#8230; I went into it pure.  The revelations that came came slowly, and were that much more horrible.   I actually was going to finish it last night &#8211; it was only about 10 pm but I was exhausted &#8211; due to the Bloomsday marathon the day before.  I lay in bed, and was nearly done with it &#8211; and I suddenly got this creepy feeling, uneasy &#8211; like: I need to go to sleep now.  If I finish this book now, I might have nightmares &#8211; or I will not be able to sleep &#8230; and more than anything else right now &#8211; I need SLEEP.<\/p>\n<p>So I reluctantly put the book down with 20 pages to go.  Very unlike me.<\/p>\n<p>Slept like a baby.  Woke up with a sore neck though &#8211; I can&#8217;t move my head.  Typical.  Made a cup of coffee, and finished the last 20 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I was right to put it off.  Now it&#8217;s the light of day, the sun is shining &#8211; and I can shake off the effect of the book a bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the first book on my Summer Reading Challenge &#8211; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in a day and a half. I was really chilled by it. Scared. Very sad. And I am GLAD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6717\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[977,976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103267,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions\/103267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}