Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

   Let me just start out by saying that I am now distracted by wanting to know what happens next just like I was when I read The Giver in 8th grade. Apparently Lowry likes to end her books with an idea of what's coming and let the reader think about it for themselves before they can get a hold of the next one. In my case I both want to read the next one and to also get through the other 7 that J.H. gave me. Not to mention the James Harriot and Charles Dickens books my mother made me pack.
   I really liked this book. Just like (I can't believe I'm saying this but just ignore it) the Hunger Games trilogy, this book depicts a future world where most civilization has been destroyed and mankind has gone way way downhill. Most of this book I found sadly realistic and what I didn't find realistic wasn't supposed to be... I think. For all I know, tomorrow I'll pick up one of my drawings and it will tell me to drive more carefully. That wouldn't make much sense not the least of which because I don't have a car. Can you say AD--so yeah I liked this book.
   Bad Stuff: I don't really have anything to put here because every problem I had with this books was circumstantial. I am 20 and it's meant for 11 year olds.  I have a tendency to guess ahead in books and I figured out several things way before I felt I was supposed to. Then there was some other stuff but you get the point. And by you I mean my one follower. :( Hey my first emoticon! How did it take this long?

   Rating: Good to great. (I will probably never get above great now that I think about it.)
   Read again? Yep.
   Should you read? Yes. Read the rest of Lowry's books too.