The book was City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. It was a fun quick read about a city with no sunlight, just electricity. And they are running out of everything; electricity, light bulbs and supplies. It was interesting to see the different ways that people handeled their situation, whether they were helpful, hopeful, selfish, or ignored it hoping it would go away.I picked it up from the library the morning of book group and read it every free second that I had. Then from 6:00 on I ignored everything else and read as fast as I could. I finished at 8:30 (book group started at 8:00) and ran over. It is always a late night event and people show up whenever so it didn't matter that I was late, and I didn't want the ending to be spoiled. We had fun discussing the book and stayed until 11:00 talking about all kinds of girly things. I had a good time!
*Just a warning: It looks like the movie deviates greatly from the book.
2 comments:
Your bookgroup sounds fun - you seem to read more relaxing books than we do. At least all the girly chat until late hours make it worth it.
The book sounds intriguing and evidently a quick read - that's all I can handle right now.
I kinda wish I had a book group. To many Marines are terrified of books.
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