Gathering Blue - Lois Lowery - 4 Stars

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Set in the distant future there is a community where the deformed or the sick are taken to "the fields" to await "the beasts" and certain death. The Singer, The Carver, and The Weaver play vital roles in the community's history and future. While surrounded in luxury like nothing she has ever experienced, Kira learns that she is one of the few that can make a difference...

While not a sequel to The Giver, it is set in the same type of distant future that is removed from what we know of civilization. This is a great quick read into a world that is not too much of an impossibility and shows the delicate nature of one's perceived reality.

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 I thought this looked like a lot of fun...

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
                                                                                                                              Gathering Blue* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

Here are my answers:
I am currently reading: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry as a follow up to The Giver...see my review here.
I am also reading Wuthering Heights

What did you finish reading?
The Giver - Highly recommend!

What do you think you will read next?
After Wuthering Heights I am going to treat myself to The Bottoms

Review taken from Goodreads: Joe Lansdale, author of several horror novels, Westerns, and some outrageous thrillers, is something of a cult writer. The Bottoms, which may be the breakout book that moves Lansdale beyond the genre category, is a resonant and moving novel. Though there is a mystery at its core, it is at heart a coming-of-age story, with a more literary bent than Lansdale usually demonstrates.
Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a series of events that occurred in his 11th year, when the mutilated, murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where his father was the local constable. Harry and Tom, his younger sister, find the first one. Only their father, Jacob Crane, seems to care about finding justice for the victims, who are dismissed out of hand as unimportant by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which warns Jacob off any further investigations. Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man, a creature who's said to lurk beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River, where the first body was found. In fact, the Goat Man has something to do with the murders, and the secret of who he is and what he really did is the key to the unsolved slayings. But that takes second place to the artfully explicated character of Jacob and Harry's changing relationship with him in the course of the loss of his boyish innocence. This is a masterfully told story and a very good read. --Jane Adams

I also have a few Janet Evanovich books books in her Stephanie Plum Series! 

I am so thankful that I am afforded a Christmas break at my work! It really helps to have this time with my family and my books and a bit of relaxation. :)


As always, Happy Reading, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Heather

The Giver by Lois Lowry - 5 Stars

The Giver by Lois Lowry


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wonderful Young-Adult/Sci-Fi

The Receiver is a living receptacle for the communities memories and emotions both new and old. With the Receiver there is no sense of pain, loss, love, or joy.

As the new Receiver begins his training and along with it the accumulation of memories past, he realizes that it is up to him to do something about it.


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