The Best Blog #Group 1

Hello, reader! This is my review of The Giver , written in 1993 by Lois Lowry. I originally read this book in school a couple years ago, but I have reread it since then because I liked it so much and I felt that there was a lot of information I may have missed when I originally read it and that reading it again would make me notice some interesting things that I hadn't before.  I really liked The Giver when I first read it. I thought the concept of a perfect futuristic society was interesting because it was what many people believed life would be like right now a long time ago. One of the largest differences between the society that the main character, Jonas, lives in and ours is that there is no choice or prejudice. Everyone thinks the same and is assigned the job at age twelve based on their interests and abilities. Adults can apply for a compatible spouse with which they are allowed to have exactly two children and once those children grow up the family unit disbands a...

Recently, I read the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a historical fiction focused around a young girl growing up in Germany between 1939 and 1943. The book follows a young girl named Liesel Meminger as she arrives in the small fictional town of Molching, Germany and comes of age under of the Nazi regime. The book begins with a brief introduction in which the unnamed narrator (more on them later) introduces themselves and highlights the three moments in which they met Liesel: after the death of her younger brother, later in her childhood, and after her hometown is bombed. After this introduction, the story backs up to the same scene in which the narrator first meets Liesel as she and her mother journey to her new foster family, the Hubermanns. On the train ride there, her younger brother dies suddenly, and she arrives alone and completely devastated. Over the next year, she bonds with her fierce, but loving foster mother, Rosa, and her kind, gentle foster father, Hans and befrie...

This is the second review of All That Was ( you might have to read the first one to understand fully) Lili T. After All That Was written by Karen Rivers  published in 2018 I am amazed at how my perspective of the book has changed. Originally, I thought that the book was annoying because it had no chapters and that it tended to drag on. However after reading it fully, this book has definitely turned out to be a great book with lots of plot twists. Most of all it is one of those books that you have to read all the way through since the beginning is slow.  As I mentioned in my other blog post, Soup (Pipers boyfriend and Sloane’s crush) plays a big role in the story, as it causes drama between the two best friends. However, in the beginning of the book you don’t really get a sense of who Soup is as a character or person. You only get Piper talking about how gorgeous he is. Once you read further in the book when it jumps to after Pipers death it is interesting to finally...