Multiple Point Of View Characters and Lois Lowry's The Giver
Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Currently Writing: Revisions/editing/2nd draft of SOMEDAY (the first book in my Merlin Quartet) I'm in the middle of rereading two series that have impressed me with their stories in the past: the Harry Potter series and Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet. (Technically, I've only read what was previously the Giver Trilogy , but Lowry has written a new book in the set, Son , which I wanted to read after the others since it has been years since my first reading of any of them.) Rereading these books after some time does odd things to my experience of reading them. First, it makes me examine whether they deserved my attention and praise in the first place. Because I am reading them for a second (or in the case of PoA, third or fourth) time, it's quite likely that they did deserve my attention. A book that invites multiple readings has at least d