Books have a way of infiltrating society. We talk about them
when they make the NYTimes Bestseller list. Actors throw themselves in the way
of casting directors when the tomes are made into movies.
But what about the priceless book that doesn’t receive
recognition? The ones that don’t make the news?
This week, let me know which books fit that description, a
book no one knows about that rocked your world.
Today I want to highlight a book that I read as a kid. It started
me on the Sci-Fi/Fantasy kick and literally changed my reading circle.
The Forgotten Door
by Alexander Key is a YA Sci-Fi about a young man who falls through a broken
door into an alien world. The people and a culture he doesn’t understand
frightens him. He runs, chased by strange, violent beings who only want to harm
him.
He gives up hope of ever finding his way back to his world when a family
who guesses he isn’t like them rescues him. They guard him at their own peril while
the authorities search for the young man. He hopes his people will find him and
save him from the strange planet called Earth.
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One of my favorite books--meaning it's stuck with me for years--is MEMORY by Linda Nagata.
Here's the blurb for it:
A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives: On an artificial world with a forgotten past, floods of "silver" rise in the night like fog, rewriting the landscape and consuming those caught in its cold mists. Seventeen-year-old Jubilee knows that no one ever returns from the silver--but then a forbidding stranger appears, asking after her beloved brother, lost long ago to a silver flood. Could he still be alive? And why does the silver rise ever higher, threatening to drown the world? Jubilee pursues the truth on a quest to unlock the memory of a past reaching back farther than she ever imagined.
I recently found out Nagata's thinking of writing a sequel for it and is offering MEMORY for only $3 for a limited time. Check it out!
*taking notes*
I always need more reading material. Now, if only I knew where to purchase more Time.
Amazon? Ebay?
Oooh, sounds interesting. I prefer books that aren't the ones everyone is talking about myself. I don't know why that is.
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