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The book started off mysterious and very intriguing. As I continued on to the middle it got so intense and had lots of action, however towards the end of the book it kept dragging on with excessive dialogue that was really not needed to help the reader make more connections or inferences to keep the reader hooked .There is LOTS of repetition, and I honestly feel like this book didn't really have a defined plot. I think I would have liked to see more perspectives and less dialogue.

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while the book has a lot of interesting ideas within it, I really disliked the pacing. One more thing is that the story appears to have a sad ending which (while I’m not against) is frowned upon by the western entertainment culture which expectes a “happily ever after” in most cases. The book is not for everyone even if you do like psychological thrillers. I do own the book but unless the world turns upside down Im probably won’t be finishing it

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After reading the book, I really don't know how to feel. Looking back on it, this novel was not like other, similar novels I have read. In most books, I feel like I am connected to the protagonist, but in this book I was almost indifferent to her disappearance. Although it was sad, I saw it coming because I kept hoping for a fairytale ending when in reality the book just got sadder and sadder. I also thought I did not really get to know this girl and her relationships outside of the old man and R, but also we did not really get to fully understand the Memory Police and if they even are evil.

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So I just finished the book, and I got to say, that was hella depressing. It got me thinking though, the author disappears in the end and like everything else that disappears, is she supposed to be forgotten like everything else? Like to everyone else who can't remember anything, would they just not exist at all? And because the protagonist has no name, I was thinking that maybe we are supposed to be people who can't remember anything, and that we are supposed to have forgotten her name as well. But, in conclusion this book is kinda sad, and yeah, what're your thoughts?

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Since the books perspective is threw the woman. Do you think she knows one day the book itself will disappear along with herself.

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while im a bit behind (pg. 159) I cant stop but where is the story going from that point. so far the story felt both static and predictable to me and it feels like the story is trying to dig itself out of a hole. any thoughts?

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after reading the scene of the protag visiting the headquarters I wondered why is the memory police’s standard of living is so much higher than the island

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On page 219, it talks about how the protagonist doesn't feel the same way talking to R as she felt when she was talking to her mother about the disappearances. Why do you think this is?

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If people can forget their legs, can people forget more important parts of their body? Heart, spine, brain? What happens then?

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How do the memory police always have a jump on things and how are they always one step ahead in everything?

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After reading all of page 101 I had a theory. I know it's a stretch but maybe the Islanders who are disappearing are being forced into joining the memory police and almost enforcing the values the memory police have; therefore if the people disagree with joining then they must have killed or keep those who disagree in solitary confinement in order to keep the people who are against the memory police out of their way during the "process" as described later on page 106. I think this because in paragraph two the protagonist says "the guards continued to ignore me, as though they were under orders not to speak."  She then describes one of the guards as "pale, much younger, just a boy." Do you think the memory police is expanding their group and overall reputation by bringing in the islanders?

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we are told that novels disappear but the old man convinces the protagonist to keep her manuscript in case she does remember what she was writing about and how. do you think this is foreshadowing the end of the story? maybe the story will end with the protagonist remembering what she wrote, spreading it to people, and eventually overthrowing the memory police.

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I was reading the book, and I realized that the protagonist doesn't have a name. Do you think that is maybe because she herself forgot her name? Or that she is becoming forgotten?

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Reading the book I began to wonder. What are some real life examples of the Memory Police? What could they be compared to?

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Did the memory police know that the main character and the old man were bringing back forgotten items? Why would they randomly be checking bags?

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the island appears to be not really big, if that is the case why do you think the north side of the island feels so abandoned?

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It seems to show that the main character can remember the forgotten, but she says herself she cannot. Why do you think this is? Can she remember or not?

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when the main protag said that went the memory police raided the how for the bird books they skiped this door, as soon as i read that i thought that this was foreshadowing for another raid, what do you think?

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when R is told to hide in this secret compartment, the main character keeps mentioning how she needs him or she can't write her novels. do you think the novels will play a role in something in the future? maybe eventually taking the memory police down

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I think the main character knows she is truly alone because she still has the memory's but lost everything once the library disappeared, so do you think she will soon disappear herself just like her books? very far fetched.

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What happens to the people who have disappeared? Are they being tested on, killed, or just kept separated from society?

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While struggling to understand the story's structure, I saw parts of her novels that clearly showed the protagonist's fears and moved the story forward. I wonder why the author decided to show the protagonist's actual writing. Do you think it added to the story, or is it unnecessary?

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We are told R can remember things and how the protagonist must hide her from the Memory Police along with their writing, how do you think the Inui family will be involved in the story later on? When they left, there was a lot of emphasis on their cat, but also the safe house. Do you think the cat will somehow sell them out? Or maybe they will come back to the protagonists house.

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In the book there is mention of a smuggling incident in which people attempted to leave the island. This got me thinking about the island itself and how it functions. Is there just one island? Are there more islands under one government (kinda like Hawai'i)? Is this government a monarchy, a democracy, or colonial?

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My main question right now is how do you even become a memory police officer. What kind of training would they need to go threw and what if there family could remember.

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On page nine paragraph six the main character recalls seeing their father looking uncomfortable using the phrases "Saturday evening, I think, he would tell me, looking uncomfortable. Be sure to give my love to your mother." When reading that it seemed as if the father knew what was going to happen to him, and that he was not in favor of it because he looked uncomfortable. Do you think the father knew he was going to die, or be removed by the memory police? If so why do you think so?

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On page 16 paragraph four the main character describes the things that are disappearing on the island, including the ferry boats. The character then says that the ferry boats have been tied to the dock for a while creating rust. When reading that I thought of the question is the memory police trying to keep people in or something else out? Why are they trying to forget the ferry boats?

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While I was reading the book this question came into my  mind. Is there a theme/similarity between everything that “disappears?”

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In our book club, we discussed a few questions about the Memory Police's motives and perspectives, but one stood out the most: Why were the items that disappeared so random? And who controls the disappearing?

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in the story R says the memory police can check DNA to check whether the person can remember disappeared items my question is How did they find out people could remember disappeared items?

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While I was reading, I wondered about the military police and how they function. Do they serve as police in the way our police do?  Do they function as the main government? Are they a branch of a government, or something like the military?

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So in the book it's stated that R remembers things that had disappeared from the island, and was not as hesitant to tell the main character why, unlike her mother, who was. Why do you think this is, and why can R remember these things?

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So in the book it's stated that R remembers things that had disappeared from the island, and was not as hesitant to tell the main character why, unlike her mother, who was. Why do you think this is, and why can R remember these things?

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As I read, I noticed that the forgotten seemed to be tangible things (objects, animals, etc.). Why do you think this is? Is there a reason for the forgotten being tangible, and does this imply that intangible things like emotions can also be forgotten?

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As I read I begin to notice that the main character also seems to remember the forgotten, Why do you think this is, and do you think the other village has anything to do with where they take the people that remember ?

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As stated in the novel, the memory police are becoming harsher and more public. Why do you think this is? Is it because they are being told to by someone or because they need more help discovering how people remember things that have disappeared?

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So in the story the memory police pursue people who remember things. What do you think is their motivation for doing that?