Book of the Week: The Giver

I had to redeem myself after last week's book, so I chose The Giver, by Lois Lowry for my next read! This story was part of my sixth grade reading class curriculum, and although I couldn't remember any specific details about the book, I remembered that it was an excellent book! My memory served me well in that regard! The story is set in a community/society in which all deep feelings and memories involving the experiences brought on by those feelings have been removed from all members of society, with the exception of one person, the Giver. The Giver alone holds every single memory of feelings and sensations, in order to save the rest of his community from having to experience them. As he is growing older, a younger individual is selected from within the community to be the Receiver of memories, so that status quo can be maintained. The story follows the Receiver, Jonas, as he takes this on.

The Giver was such a great book that I poked around a bit and discovered that Lois Lowry actually wrote a series of books that went hand in hand with The Giver. I guess I don't need to do much hunting for the next several weeks' books!