The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Nothing gets me quite like a good dystopian book. I love them. The Giver was, I’m sure, the first book that I read that was set in another version of the future, and I was in love with it.
The thing that Lois Lowry did perfectly was give us just enough information [...]
Maybe I’m just in a depressing mood. Both of the books that I’m currently reading are super depressing and while trying to decide on my flashback book this week, I realized that all of my options were fairly depressing too. Ah well. I guess it is the dead of winter. I’ll give you something cheerier [...]
I remember my third grade teacher giving me a nice, shiny copy of this book and telling me that Matilda always reminded her of me. I was immediately sold because: 1- it seemed like a huge, fat book at the time, which I have always loved, and 2- I loved my third grade teacher, Miss [...]