As a dystopia and speculative literature lover and critic I get asked a lot why kids like these kinds of incredibly bleak books (which I don’t really think are all that bleak, […]
I, like so many out there, am a huge fan of Lois Lowry’s classic The Giver. Made to read it in school, I have since reread it and studied it […]
Hello all! This is it! This is the end of November and therefore the end of dystopia month. There is so much more to talk about but I thought I’d […]
NOTE** this is a guest post I wrote for Rate Your Story an awesome blog for aspiring writers :) I sat down and read Lois Lowry’s Newbery award winning The Giver […]
Hello all and welcome to this month’s theme – dystopia! Writing a thesis which focuses on young adult dystopia brings up lots of fun questions and channels for inquiry, but […]
I vividly remember the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when I realized, at the same moment that Jonas realized, what release actually meant. The world had been […]
The Book Wars 