Why isn't it 2012 yet?
Well, I spent much of the weekend being adult. I did the laundry, dried and folded it (I dream of a dryer, my towels now feel like sandpaper) while listening to loud music, because nobody is home except for the cat. We keep each other company, he sleeps on my bed and doesn't mind when I talk to the television.
Being so responsible may be influencing my dreams. Well, that, or the fact that my brain is craving the new Michael Grant AND IT'S NOT OUT UNTIL 2012. The Gone series is an amazing series. In a small town in California, all of a sudden everyone over the age of 15 dissappears and a giant, inpenertable barrier surrounds the town. That would be bad enough, but then, some kids find out they're starting to develop powers.
It is a terrifying book, and a bit of a modern day, supernatural/sci-fi Lord of the Flies. (Only I don't want to punch all the characters.) The brutality between the kids, the rift between 'normals' and 'freaks', the power struggles and emotions, they're all very real. Michael Grant writes children and teens very well, and even the not-so-good-guys are believable and sometimes even likable. Or at the very least sympathetic or understandable. There are so many shades of gray.
There is so much suspense, and my mind apparently keeps moving forward to the point where the barrier will go down. Sam, one of the characters who from the beginning has been put into the 'good guy leader' role, is terrified about being held accountable for the things that happen inside the barrier.
Spoilers for the series being the cut.
And in my dreams, I'm always Sam.
In the first dream, my brain decided that the torture in the book wasn't enough for Sam-me, so besides being nearly flayed alive, Drake-the-badguy also tries to cut something out of my lower spine. The barrier came down, and there were Pol and Gandalf. I was in my new room in Maastricht (I had this dream while I was moving in), trying to explain to them what had happened inside the barrier and show them my shoot-death-beams-from-hands power.
The second dream, which I had this morning, mixed fandoms up a little, because for some reason we were in Dr Quest's house. (Only not the one of the actual series.) I (Sam) was trying to keep things going, get people fed and settled and make a list of who was there and where they were sleeping (it was a big complex). We were trying to find a way out of the barrier. In the basement of the Quest Complex, there were these doors that lead to the harbour. And there, past a small control room, actual adult soldiers were walking! There was a way out, and it was being guarded.
We managed to break out somehow, getting past the soldiers, past the water and over a fence. It was very early morning around or before dawn, so nobody in the 'real world' noticed us. We came together in a parking lot, and Sam-Me started giving a speech about how we knew how to get out, but we had to go back and destroy the Darkness (the ultimate baddie in the book, a creepy powerful creature that lives in a mine). The military was obviously trying to keep us in because they couldn't do anything else but hope we (with out powers) could destroy it.
I was standing on top of a car, asking people to make two lines: one for people who wanted to stay here, and one for people who were going back. Sam-me was very hurt that Astrid, Sam's girlfriend in the books, refused to go back. Most of the normals wanted to stay, and a bunch of the freaks (not actual ones from the books, though) wanted to stay too. I remember being surprised that Orc wanted to go back.
In the books, Orc is a bully who was injured terribly. But instead of dying, his skin turned into a wet-gravelly type substance. Only a little part near one of his eyes remained human. In my dream, when he got out of the barrier, the wet-gravel let go, and while his skin was green-ish, he was normal again. But he wanted to go back to destroy the Darkness.
And then as I was making a speech about how we needed to go back and what the people who were staying could do to help us at the very least, the cat started meowing at my door that I should get up and feed him.
So, to cap it off: Inny is very grown-up, except for the fact where she reads and dreams about YA fiction. And you should read Michael Grant's Gone series, because it is the best thing ever.
Being so responsible may be influencing my dreams. Well, that, or the fact that my brain is craving the new Michael Grant AND IT'S NOT OUT UNTIL 2012. The Gone series is an amazing series. In a small town in California, all of a sudden everyone over the age of 15 dissappears and a giant, inpenertable barrier surrounds the town. That would be bad enough, but then, some kids find out they're starting to develop powers.
It is a terrifying book, and a bit of a modern day, supernatural/sci-fi Lord of the Flies. (Only I don't want to punch all the characters.) The brutality between the kids, the rift between 'normals' and 'freaks', the power struggles and emotions, they're all very real. Michael Grant writes children and teens very well, and even the not-so-good-guys are believable and sometimes even likable. Or at the very least sympathetic or understandable. There are so many shades of gray.
There is so much suspense, and my mind apparently keeps moving forward to the point where the barrier will go down. Sam, one of the characters who from the beginning has been put into the 'good guy leader' role, is terrified about being held accountable for the things that happen inside the barrier.
Spoilers for the series being the cut.
And in my dreams, I'm always Sam.
In the first dream, my brain decided that the torture in the book wasn't enough for Sam-me, so besides being nearly flayed alive, Drake-the-badguy also tries to cut something out of my lower spine. The barrier came down, and there were Pol and Gandalf. I was in my new room in Maastricht (I had this dream while I was moving in), trying to explain to them what had happened inside the barrier and show them my shoot-death-beams-from-hands power.
The second dream, which I had this morning, mixed fandoms up a little, because for some reason we were in Dr Quest's house. (Only not the one of the actual series.) I (Sam) was trying to keep things going, get people fed and settled and make a list of who was there and where they were sleeping (it was a big complex). We were trying to find a way out of the barrier. In the basement of the Quest Complex, there were these doors that lead to the harbour. And there, past a small control room, actual adult soldiers were walking! There was a way out, and it was being guarded.
We managed to break out somehow, getting past the soldiers, past the water and over a fence. It was very early morning around or before dawn, so nobody in the 'real world' noticed us. We came together in a parking lot, and Sam-Me started giving a speech about how we knew how to get out, but we had to go back and destroy the Darkness (the ultimate baddie in the book, a creepy powerful creature that lives in a mine). The military was obviously trying to keep us in because they couldn't do anything else but hope we (with out powers) could destroy it.
I was standing on top of a car, asking people to make two lines: one for people who wanted to stay here, and one for people who were going back. Sam-me was very hurt that Astrid, Sam's girlfriend in the books, refused to go back. Most of the normals wanted to stay, and a bunch of the freaks (not actual ones from the books, though) wanted to stay too. I remember being surprised that Orc wanted to go back.
In the books, Orc is a bully who was injured terribly. But instead of dying, his skin turned into a wet-gravelly type substance. Only a little part near one of his eyes remained human. In my dream, when he got out of the barrier, the wet-gravel let go, and while his skin was green-ish, he was normal again. But he wanted to go back to destroy the Darkness.
And then as I was making a speech about how we needed to go back and what the people who were staying could do to help us at the very least, the cat started meowing at my door that I should get up and feed him.
So, to cap it off: Inny is very grown-up, except for the fact where she reads and dreams about YA fiction. And you should read Michael Grant's Gone series, because it is the best thing ever.