Good Morning

2012-02-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

I am pretty chipper today, but it's not from a good night's sleep. I stayed up until 3 reading Stephenie Meyer's The Host because I couldn't put it down. In fact, even now, I am rehashing the scenes in my mind over and over because it is ingrained into my soul. I didn't just read this book, I lived it. The characters were so real that I can't let them die. So I replay my favorite scenes to keep them alive. It's almost cruel when an author invents someone so wonderful you wish you could meet them face to face but you can't. Kids have it easy, they can go to Disney World and shake hands with Snow White. They should have a literature theme park so I can explore the underground caves that Stephenie invented and had such skill as to share those images so vividly. Five stars (obviously). There was a ghost of a similarity with Twilight in that the romance was warped into a tangled mess that resolves itself wonderfully. The same sort of death threats, triangles and fierce loyalty. I'm a super sucker for that sort thing. The writing is the best part.

Check out my guest post about how librarian's judge book covers on Novel Publicity & Co.

Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn

2012-02-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

Just read this book written in 2004, but full of relevant speculations on a dystopian society that has an eerie similarity to our own. There were more than a few similarities between this book and mine (Shifters). The idea that people can be judged by their DNA and rejected by society if deemed unfit is a scary thought. We have enough problems in this world with discrimination against outward appearances like gender, skin color or status and these traits have already been scientifically proven to make no difference to our authenticity of being human. How would we fair if we were also judged by our health? Would you give me a job if you knew I had high blood pressure? Would you deny me a mortgage if you knew I had depression? The scary answer to that is yes, it would cloud our judgements. I could rack up quite a medical bill and any employer would want to avoid that. These “inward” judgements still don’t prove one person better than another.

Weyn has a second book on the bar code tattoo that I look forward to reading.

the epitome

Good Morning

Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn