This week's reading
I've been reading a big mix of things this week. I finished another one on the short list for the National Book award for young people. This one was called Noggin by John Corey Whaley. It's about a 16 year old boy who had been dying of leukemia, had his head cryogenically frozen, then five years later his head was reattached to a new body (of a boy of a similar age who had died of a brain tumor) and he wakes up. The author's voice on this was amazing... a strong clear voice of this young man who is 16 and trying to cope with not only being gone for 5 years but living with a body that's different from the one he left behind. Parts of it are funny and parts are heart rending. It was a great mix of social issues and humor. Here's a book trailer about it. I also read on called The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey. It's the continuation of a book that came out last year called The Fifth Wave about an alien invasion of the earth. I really...