B.A. Dillon

So this was my reaction when I realized that news of The Giver (the compelling novel by Lois Lowry) being adapted into film was not a joke and that there is in fact an actual trailer out:

Bear in mind this is my reaction to a book I’ve only gotten halfway through (or less than halfway. Okay so I have a list of half-read books I still have to get through. Accuse me of book-promiscuity all you want, I don’t know how long I have to live so I’ll read the first chapter of anything that might interest me. My literature understands… and accepts me).

What I know of the book so far is that it is set in a “Utopian” society where “sameness” is embraced. There is no colour. There is no career choice, as everyone is assigned a career based on what the elders (who watch each child very,