Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Dear Reader, I need your assistance!

Since I began blogging a few months ago, I have, in the back of my mind, also been thinking about podcasts. I always just sort of assumed that my own creative output would follow the path that technology followed: first the book, then the blog, and then the podcast (video podcasts are beyond my abilities… for now). Until recently, however, I had not come up with any ideas for what kind of content my inevitable podcast would deliver. But I have finally hit upon another one of my grand, and perhaps ill-conceived, schemes that I shall herewith name:

Renee’s Audio Book Club

This is where I need YOUR participation. In an audio way.

My idea is to produce an audio montage of readers talking about a single book, and I have chosen Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro as the very first audio book club selection. To this end, I have set up a voicemail phone number through Yahoo (isn’t technology astounding?). So, if you have anything at all to say about Never Let Me Go, please call (415) 992-8622 and leave me a message!

Tell me whatever you want about the novel. Tell me what you liked, what you disliked, or just your reactions. What made you think? What images or words stuck with you? Read me passages from the book. Tell me your name, or not (if you do leave your name, I will credit and thank you in the audio production). Feel free to be creative. This is all new to me, so I don’t really know what to expect. Hopefully, something fun and interesting, something that is distinctly the product of a community of booklovers, will result.

I doubt the production of the podcast will come together all that quickly (I have some technical issues to figure out as I go), so you’ll have plenty of time to read the book if you haven’t already. The voicemail will be active for some time, and I have posted the phone number on the sidebar for easy reference. There may be updates there as well—I’m just flying by the seat of my pants, here.

Please comment or email me (or leave a voicemail!) if you have any suggestions or ideas—I’d love to hear your feedback. Thank you in advance for participating in my crazy audio project. I am excited about hearing all your thoughts on Never Let Me Go. I myself am smack in the middle of it and am immensely enjoying the read. It’s one the rare books that I constantly think about and long to get back to while I’m doing other things.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

P.S. When you call, don’t be alarmed by the generic outgoing message. For the price I’m paying, I guess you can’t record your own.

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