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Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I'm not even sure I want to tell you how many times I cried while reading this book. We'll just say it was a lot, and leave it at that. Life as We Knew It is bleak, it's depressing, it's sad, and it was the most captivating book I've read in a really long time. I read late into the night, and only stopped reading when I was so tired I couldn't stay awake.
When I read the description for this book, it seemed interesting enough, but I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did, or for it to make me feel as much as I did. I've often thought of how things would be, or what I would do if there was a natural disaster I had to deal with, but I only thought in terms of a few days or a week or so, never what I would do if it lasted months.
The characters were real, and even though I thought I might get annoyed with the main character, especially since the book was told in diary form, but I didn't at all. I really liked her. The secondary characters were good, though, even though there weren't very many of them for the bulk of the story. The only thing is, I thought at times that her friend Megan, who was deeply religious was almost silly in the way she was portrayed sometimes. If I'm honest, I think I would have reacted to the situation very much as her friend Megan did, and I don't think it's as crazy as the book made it seem. Although to be fair, the story is told through the diary of Miranda, and she probably did think her friend was crazy.
This book was excellent, and I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter what genre you usually read.
When I read the description for this book, it seemed interesting enough, but I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did, or for it to make me feel as much as I did. I've often thought of how things would be, or what I would do if there was a natural disaster I had to deal with, but I only thought in terms of a few days or a week or so, never what I would do if it lasted months.
The characters were real, and even though I thought I might get annoyed with the main character, especially since the book was told in diary form, but I didn't at all. I really liked her. The secondary characters were good, though, even though there weren't very many of them for the bulk of the story. The only thing is, I thought at times that her friend Megan, who was deeply religious was almost silly in the way she was portrayed sometimes. If I'm honest, I think I would have reacted to the situation very much as her friend Megan did, and I don't think it's as crazy as the book made it seem. Although to be fair, the story is told through the diary of Miranda, and she probably did think her friend was crazy.
This book was excellent, and I highly recommend it to anyone, no matter what genre you usually read.