whoo hoo! I'm on a roll! 4 days stuck in your house will do that for you. Reading kids' books is so nice: everything is so in your face. I learned from this book that we should be kind to each other and not ostracize people who are different, and that friendship is really important. Heh. No, really, another good read--I'll probably even let Ari use my Nook to read it if he wants to. Gathering Blue is a sort of companion to The Giver, in that it's set in the same fictional future (or so I've read; I actually can't remember anything in the book that makes that necessarily true, but maybe Lowry herself has said so?) but it has completely different characters. Instead of a collectivist society where everyone's eerily nice to each other and everything's completely safe and sterile, Gathering Blue's society is brutal, filled with people so selfish they push their own hungry children away to keep food for themselves. I preferred reading about The Giver's world, I think--the creepy almost familiarity of its "community" was just kind of more fun.
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