Road Trip Wednesday - best book of August.

YA Highway asked, for their weekly RTW question, "What was the best book you read in August?"

The answer here is a little complicated. For one, I assume this question is asking about YA fiction, but the best book I read is neither YA nor fiction. It is a little book a professor recommended to me last semester. It is called "The Future of Life," by biologist Edward O. Wilson.

Based on the title alone, we could think the book was a YA dystopian. Maybe a YA zombie book! Maybe adult versions of those! But this book is none of those. It is appropriate for both YA and adult audiences, but it isn't fiction.

 Don't let that fool you though, because this book can possibly move you more than fiction can.

The prolog, a letter to everyone's favorite nature observer of Walden Pond, Thoreau, actually made me cry. The first chapter is full of stories of the most amazing creatures you can imagine, all of them real and existing on this very earth. The characters are the living organisms all around. In an era of drastic environmental upheaval, the book is hopeful in a heartbreaking way as we join in a field trip around the world and learn of amazing bacteria and poisonous bugs. More importantly, it does address the question, what is the future of life? E.O. Wilson might have the answer here, and it is a wonderful read.

In regards to fiction, I promise I will post about that soon. But I had to share this amazing book with you all, and YA Highway helped me out.

Race

Road Trip Wednesday: Reincarnation as a Fictional Character

YA Highway asked, for their weekly RTW question, "If you could be reincarnated as any fictional character, which would it be?"


Well, firstly, I like my life. So instead of being reincarnated, I want to be reinvented. Just wake up one day, and I'm someone else, from my personality to my looks to my inhibitions.
It's a no-brainer that I want to be Margo Roth Spiegelman from Paper Towns.
I'd love to be Margo Roth Spiegelman because she's socially-successful in the weird mating dance we call high school, because she's funny and creative, because she's a writer, and because she has more chutzpah in one electric-blue-painted fingernail than I have in my entire body.
Maybe we could restructure the storyline so that the characters all live in a subdivision of San Diego, though, and not Orlando. I find it hard to believe that such lively, wonderful people like Q and Radar could live in Florida. Florida is a great place to live...if you're a mosquito.

Linda

P.S. Are we limited to only books? Can I be Lara Croft?