Tag: society

I’m back after reading Lois Lowry’s Gathering Blue, and I am once again wondering why I never read these books. They are so good. In this rendition, we are in a different universe from what The Giver took place in. You don’t even have to read the first one to understand this book. I’m hoping that it continues.

One of the things that was different from the giver is that this takes place in a more stereotypical dystopian environment. Everyone is struggling for food and their place in the group. We follow a girl named Kira who is discriminated against because of her disability status. My heart went out to this girl as someone else who struggles with my own disability struggles. Watching Kira go through all of the challenges facing her was very inspiring. I had hoped she would succeed in every single thing she went after.

Here’s to the next book being good.

Insert a book a suspect that everyone and their guardians have already read, except for me. I have already been dragged through the dirt by my friends, so please, no more judging. I understand that it is terrible that it took me being in graduate school to actually getting around to reading this book. I just wasn’t interested until fairly recently. In some regards, I do regret not reading it earlier but better late than never. What book am I talking about, you may ask. Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the book I’m discussing, where not even a movie coming out interested me apparently.

What I really enjoyed about this book was the setup before completely turning it on its head. I was expecting a utopian world where everything is great, but that was quickly dismantled. Sure, everything was great, but at what cost. This book was discussed in a way that I’ve never really seen in a dystopian novel. It’s usually all about blood and gore and nothing else, which is something I typically dislike. Instead, every aspect had a world-building element to it that kept me engaged in the story.

Now, there are other books that I’m guessing you’ve not heard about or read. I only know because of how I keep track of the books I read. I plan to read those and then tell you if those other books are as good and if I get the same feeling from them. I’m actually excited to see where this goes since each book discusses a different societal aspect.