Hi squiders! It’s been forever since we’ve done a readalong.
I mean, that’s because we started Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy and got half way through the second book (Green Mars) and made it no farther. Well, I made it no farther. I can see Green Mars on the bookcase, staring at me accusingly.
And nothing against the Mars trilogy, certainly. I enjoyed Red Mars, and Green Mars has been similarly well-written. For some reason I can’t get through them very quickly.
Someday. Someday I will finish it and talk about it, and everyone will have forgotten what we were doing in the mean time.
Let’s not dwell on the past and our failures, however. Let’s move forward!
So I’m announcing a new readalong! We’ll be doing the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. I inherited all three books from my mother when she was culling her collection a few years back, and I remember hearing good things about the books when they first came out. I haven’t read any of them, but I’m expecting them to be somewhat standard YA dystopias. We shall see.
(Wikipedia tells me there’s a fourth book. Well, we will cross that bridge when we get there. If we get there.)
I read Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy, which is a YA (I was going to say middle grade, but apparently not) steampunk alt history of World War I, and I enjoyed the series greatly, so I’m excited to read his first series.
Let’s be ready to discuss Uglies on March 23rd. That gives us a month, and it’s not that long of a book.
See you then!
