The time works good for me. I just finished Matched last night...rereading The Giver since it's been years since I read it. Totally excited about the group!
Oooh... oohh... I'd love to read. I have a Nook. Ummm. I've never done this though. How does this work?
I am pretty sure I can at least try to chat at 9:30 EST tomorrow! Do we use the same user name to chat that we use to sign into the forum?
I won't be able to make the chat (still on vacation), but I did read both books. After the chat, maybe we can have a thread to discuss? I honestly wasn't thrilled with either book, but would like to know what others thought.
That time works for me! I'll be there. I finished Matched last night at 1:00 a.m. so it'll all be fresh in my mind.
Just got home, ate some dinner...sitting here thinking of what to do...surfing the web... and then I almost forgot there was a chat tonight!! Ok, I'm off to finish up things I need to do so I can be here in 30 min!
I read The Giver, and then went on to read Gathering Blue and Messenger (#2 and #3 loosely following The Giver as a series), so I have more closure on The Giver than if I hadn't continued on. Still waiting for Matched from the library.
honest? i read the giver. did not like it at all. i didn't feel invested in the characters. i felt disgusted by their culture, and bothered that it could even possibly be something that ever remotely resembled reality. shiver. so i didn't read matched. i didn't want to read a second book that was anything like the first. as for the end of the giver, i was pretty sure he ultimately died. there would be no literal way for him to discover that exact farm house and setting that he had been shown in the memory, in exactly the way he remembered it. i thought that given that it was so familiar and expected, we were to assume he had slipped into his most favorite memory as a comfort for death. he had found elsewhere, yes, but everyone else who found elsewhere had been euthenized, so i assumed death was his means of finding it also. that was my take on it. for what it's worth.
Rebecca, I completely agree and ditto everything you said. I, too, only read The Giver because i was just disturbed by their whole society. I was so irritated the whole time-haha! I couldn't bring myself to read Matched...for more hours of those feelings... I interpreted the ending like Rebecca, also, that it was death. It was such a let down...
That's interesting! I didn't interpret the ending at all that way, I thought he was safe! So I got a message of hope by how the book ended. I was disturbed by the society too, obviously, but found the book very interesting and very well written.
Gathering Blue and Messenger in particular specifically answers the "did he die" question, if you are interested.
