#23: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Now this was a great book. Like Rant, it touches on themes of human capability and conditions of time. However, it is written in a completely different manner. Never Let Me Go takes place in the present day, but there is something unusual about the characters. Three best friends grow up in what appears to be an ordinary British boarding school and they go through the normal pangs of adolescence together. Of course they eventually have to leave the school, but it is then that they start the lives that have been planned for them since birth. For me, this book was a reminder that there are memories we will hold on to forever not because they were particularly life changing, but because we were surrounded by the people and places that meant the most to us. Being young, discovering the world, and creating relationships profoundly impacts who we become. Although I think it would be easy to dismiss the past, the book reminds us that life experience, whether good or bad, can be a really wonderful thing.