What did you read over the summer? Share your books here or talk movies you saw. This blog is for whatever you want it to be.
The first book I read over the summer was Ashen Winter, the sequel to Ashfall by Mike Mullins. We do not have Ashen Winter in our library yet, but is definitely on the order list. Both are riveting reads! Set in the midwest, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished after a super volcanic eruption in Yellowstone National Park destroyed everything west of the Mississippi. I liken it to Lord of the Flies in that everyone west of the Mississippi is struggling to survive any way they can. Crops are destroyed so food is scarce. The law is gone and people are struggling to find order and civility in other people to be able to live together. As is human nature, chaos abounds when there are some people that take matters of survival too far.
In Ashen Winter, Alex sets out to find his parents who went looking for him back in Iowa, so Alex and Darla set off to retrace their steps back to see where his mother and father are. Ashen Winter is a great sequel to a great book Ashfall. Both books will keep you tense and ready to read more.
The first book I read over the summer was Ashen Winter, the sequel to Ashfall by Mike Mullins. We do not have Ashen Winter in our library yet, but is definitely on the order list. Both are riveting reads! Set in the midwest, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished after a super volcanic eruption in Yellowstone National Park destroyed everything west of the Mississippi. I liken it to Lord of the Flies in that everyone west of the Mississippi is struggling to survive any way they can. Crops are destroyed so food is scarce. The law is gone and people are struggling to find order and civility in other people to be able to live together. As is human nature, chaos abounds when there are some people that take matters of survival too far.
In Ashen Winter, Alex sets out to find his parents who went looking for him back in Iowa, so Alex and Darla set off to retrace their steps back to see where his mother and father are. Ashen Winter is a great sequel to a great book Ashfall. Both books will keep you tense and ready to read more.