Literary Birthdays » lois lowry http://www.literarybirthdays.com/blog Reading 365 works of fiction from 365 almost-random authors Sun, 09 Nov 2014 12:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 2014 – terrible reading year http://www.literarybirthdays.com/blog/2014/11/2014-terrible-reading-year/ http://www.literarybirthdays.com/blog/2014/11/2014-terrible-reading-year/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2014 12:15:55 +0000 http://www.literarybirthdays.com/blog/?p=140 This last year, I tried to read only fiction written by women. I have read all the Kathy Reichs books but I decided to pick up and try new (to me) female authors to find some new favorites. I am not big into the Shopoholic type of books. Romance leaves me rolling my eyes. Someone gave me Eat, Pray, Love and the font alone irritated me. In short, I have started a lot of books that I put right back down again.

My notable exception to my reading drought is in Young Adult fiction. I checked out Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, and followed it up with Number the Stars. I am just old enough that her fiction missed me when it was written. They were interesting enough that I reserved the book after The Giver at the library.

Looking forward to it.

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