My book club originally chose Corelli’s Mandolin for July. Only one of us got through it. So in mid-June, we switched things up & re-picked The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is one of those books that I would have sworn I’d been forced to read in HS. I think it’s on most YA school lists.
But halfway through I realized, this wasn’t familiar, I hadn’t read it, & I couldn’t wait to figure out what happens. You connect to boy, Jonas, who’s the main character as well as The Giver himself. At the end {maybe spoiler alert}, I still am not sure what happened. I was a bit disturbed by it & hope & pray our world doesn’t turn out like this in the future.
I’m really looking forward to our book club discussion Wednesday night & will probably update this post with more thoughts afterwards.
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I read this book when I was younger and recently re-read it. It is a bit disturbing. I think it used to be on reading lists at schools and then they tried to get it out of schools. I think it’s a good abstract book! Easy read, but a little deep!
Definitely a little disturbing & abstract. It was a quick weekend read that left me with a lot to think about.
It’s taught at the middle schools around here. I’d love to teach it to my at-risk 9th graders since I don’t trust that the middle school teachers do a great job with it.
I loved it when I read it.
I bet you’d do a great job teaching it!