Another day, another book
I just finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry for the first time.
Wow. It's like Fahrenheit 451, A Wrinkle in Time, and Ender's Game all rolled up into one with a good dose of Plato and Philip K. Dick. Pretty good for a kids book, eh? I LOVED it. I'm just sorry that I didn't read it sooner. For the record, as I often say about certain "children's" or "YA" books, its not JUST for kids. Any adult would be well served to read some of the books that are labeled thusly. I'll definitely be picking up the "sequel," Gathering Blue, tomorrow. It's supposedly only loosely in the same canon, but I want more!
I also finished up The Old Man and the Sea this morning. There were some really beautiful things about that book, but it was a different approach to writing than I was used to. I think I need to try another Hemingway and see how that goes.
Wow. It's like Fahrenheit 451, A Wrinkle in Time, and Ender's Game all rolled up into one with a good dose of Plato and Philip K. Dick. Pretty good for a kids book, eh? I LOVED it. I'm just sorry that I didn't read it sooner. For the record, as I often say about certain "children's" or "YA" books, its not JUST for kids. Any adult would be well served to read some of the books that are labeled thusly. I'll definitely be picking up the "sequel," Gathering Blue, tomorrow. It's supposedly only loosely in the same canon, but I want more!
I also finished up The Old Man and the Sea this morning. There were some really beautiful things about that book, but it was a different approach to writing than I was used to. I think I need to try another Hemingway and see how that goes.