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<\/p>\n\n\n\nby Lois Lowry, 1993, Ever After Kindle Edition, 2018, Houghton Mifflin Houghton Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I came across this book due to an unusual circumstance. I went to a Brown alumni club Holiday party and was sitting next to an elderly lady with whom I was engaged in a conversation. I asked her what she had done as a career and she said she wrote books, mostly children’s books. The woman across the table said she knew that that the woman, Lois Lowry, had written The Giver<\/em>, a book that had won the Newberry Award in the young adult’s category in 1994. What a nice occasion to be sitting next to a renowned author and be able to chat with her informally, even though I previously didn’t have a clue as to who she was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I asked her what the book was about, and she replied that it was dystopian. I became curious about it and decided to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book approaches the level of The Handmaid’s Tale<\/em> by Margaret Atwood, in the strange atmosphere it creates (although without some of the seamier content of that novel). The story is told from the viewpoint of a young boy who is given his role in life on his twelfth birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As I read the book, I was trying to recall the content of some of the books I read as a teenager. I determined that it would probably be okay for kids thirteen and older. I also thought that the book would probably be subjected to banning in some locations due to its anti-authoritarian content which would be unfortunate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is written very well, and the plot and characters are engaging. I liked it a lot and was thankful to have had the opportunity to converse with the author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Lois Lowry, 1993, Ever After Kindle Edition, 2018, Houghton Mifflin Houghton Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company I came across this book due to an unusual circumstance. I went to a Brown alumni club Holiday party and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,1],"tags":[15,49],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","category-uncategorized","tag-fiction","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}