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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Feb 2011 - just finished this book last night and once again I am in awe. This book was so much fun to read! I loved the beautiful language and often just got lost (in a good way) in the descriptions Lauren gave of what was going on. I adore her writing style.
Feb, 2011 - I am rereading this book as a part of the EFG read-along. : )
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Thanks to a friend of mine, I was lucky enough to read the ARC of this book. It starts out at a fairly steady pace, building the scene and the characters and then BAM right in the middle, it sucks you in so hard that you cannot put the book down. I devoured this book. The writing is so beautiful! The story is so well delivered. The characters are so believable. For me, it was a mix of The Giver, Uglies, with a little bit of the Hunger Games and the Fifth Element mixed in. It definitely ranks up there with my top 10 favorite books of this year. Well done, Lauren Oliver!
ps.. I am happy to learn this is the first in a trilogy! Awesome news!
Feb, 2011 - I am rereading this book as a part of the EFG read-along. : )
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Thanks to a friend of mine, I was lucky enough to read the ARC of this book. It starts out at a fairly steady pace, building the scene and the characters and then BAM right in the middle, it sucks you in so hard that you cannot put the book down. I devoured this book. The writing is so beautiful! The story is so well delivered. The characters are so believable. For me, it was a mix of The Giver, Uglies, with a little bit of the Hunger Games and the Fifth Element mixed in. It definitely ranks up there with my top 10 favorite books of this year. Well done, Lauren Oliver!
ps.. I am happy to learn this is the first in a trilogy! Awesome news!
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“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
― Delirium
― Delirium
“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city with a tremor, a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration. The flood that rushed into Portland twenty years ago after nearly two months of straight rain, that hurtled up beyond the labs and damaged more than a thousand houses, swept up tire and trash bags and old, smelly shoes and floated them through the streets like prizes, that left a thin film of green mold behind, a stench of rotting and decay that didn't go away for months, began with a trickle of water, no wider than a finger, lapping up onto the docks. And
God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought. Grace's life fell apart because of a single word: sympathizer. My world exploded because of a different word: suicide. Correction: That was the first time my world exploded. The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.”
― Delirium
God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought. Grace's life fell apart because of a single word: sympathizer. My world exploded because of a different word: suicide. Correction: That was the first time my world exploded. The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.”
― Delirium
“I run for I don't know how long. Hours, maybe, or days. Alex told me to run. So I run. You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope,and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
― Delirium
― Delirium
Reading Progress
October 27, 2010
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Started Reading
October 27, 2010
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October 30, 2010
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Finished Reading
February 15, 2011
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February 15, 2011
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Nov 08, 2010 06:40PM
What a cool friend that must be! ;)
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She's the best. I am totally sucked in to it already! And, I need to be working on a paper this week, not reading . . .
: ) LOL!
