Conversation with a student in the hallway one afternoon--
Student: Wait, you're the librarian, right?
Me: Yes.....
Student: So, you get to be in the library all day, with all those books.
Me: Yes....
Student: So, you get to read them whenever you want. Like check them out and take them home to read.
Me: Pretty much, yes.
Student: Wow.
Me: I know, right? Pretty cool. Best job on campus!
That's exactly what I did on Friday--take home a brand new book that I just had to read before putting it on the shelf.
First of all, look at that cover! The colors are brilliant, and now that I've read a bit of the novel, fit the important details of the story.
The dust jacket blurb immediately brought to mind The Giver by Lois Lowry--but Donna Barba Higuera takes us even further into the sci-fi realm by sending us into space, onto another planet. Halley's Comet has changed course and is about to impact Earth; The Last Cuentista is Petra Peña, almost thirteen, leaving behind her beloved storyteller grandmother as her family boards a spaceship to safety. Their destination lies three hundred and eighty years away. Will she be able to remember the stories, the ones the Collective are trying to purge?
The beginning of the story moves quickly; I'm only a few chapters in, and Petra is already buckled into her stasis pod and blasting off. But she is awake, when she should be asleep...
It's Monday, and I'm reading sci-fi, one of my favorite genres. What book has you staying up past your bedtime these days?
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