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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Student recommendations!
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Read SON by Lois Lowry! It's the fourth book in the Giver Quartet, and since the movie is coming out in August, I decided to re-read The Giver and read the other three. I LOVED listening to The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger on audiobook (my first audiobooks ever!), and now I'm enjoying finishing the series with reading Son in bed on a rainy day :)
The Giver Quartet isn't exactly a series...they're more like "four books that inhabit parts of the same world." I was sometimes frustrated because I just wanted to read more about Jonas, but in the end, I really appreciate that Lois Lowry has done something different than many other dystopian series do today: she is fleshing out a larger sense of a dystopian world, rather than simply following one person in one part of a dystopian world. Don't get me wrong...I loved following Katniss's story through the three Hunger Games books, and I was compelled to finish the three Legend and Divergent books too...but The Giver Quartet is a different kind of experience...and one that I enjoyed. It offers different perspectives on a world that's related to our own but that also differs wildly in many unexpected ways.
Give it a shot--before the movie comes out in August!
Read SON by Lois Lowry! It's the fourth book in the Giver Quartet, and since the movie is coming out in August, I decided to re-read The Giver and read the other three. I LOVED listening to The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger on audiobook (my first audiobooks ever!), and now I'm enjoying finishing the series with reading Son in bed on a rainy day :)
ReplyDeleteThe Giver Quartet isn't exactly a series...they're more like "four books that inhabit parts of the same world." I was sometimes frustrated because I just wanted to read more about Jonas, but in the end, I really appreciate that Lois Lowry has done something different than many other dystopian series do today: she is fleshing out a larger sense of a dystopian world, rather than simply following one person in one part of a dystopian world. Don't get me wrong...I loved following Katniss's story through the three Hunger Games books, and I was compelled to finish the three Legend and Divergent books too...but The Giver Quartet is a different kind of experience...and one that I enjoyed. It offers different perspectives on a world that's related to our own but that also differs wildly in many unexpected ways.
Give it a shot--before the movie comes out in August!