Gathering Blue
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- ISBN13: 9780385732567
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Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. When she is agreed a task that no additional community member can carry out, Kira soon realizes that she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. No one must know of her plans to uncover the truth about her world—and to find out what exists beyond it.Amazon.com Review
Lois Lowry’s magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This keenly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary equipment, where rage, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people’s lives fleeting and brutish. This society, like the one described in The Giver, is controlled by hardhearted authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. And at the center of both tales there is a young person who is agreed the responsibility of preserving the memory of the culture–and who finds the vision to transform it.
Kira, newly orphaned and lame from birth, is taken from the turmoil of the village to live in the grand Council Edifice because of her skill at embroidery. There she is agreed the task of restoring the past pictures sewn on the robe worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering, a solemn day-long performance of the tale of their world’s past. Down the hall lives Thomas the Carver, a young boy who works on the intricate symbols carved on the Singer’s staff, and a tiny girl who is being trained as the next Singer. Over the three artists hovers the menace of power, seemingly kind but suffocating to their creativity, and the dark secret at the heart of the Ruin Song.
With the help of a cheerful waif called Matt and his small dog, Kira at last finds the way to the plant that will allow her to make the missing color–blue–and, symbolically, to find the courage to shape the future by following her art wherever it may lead. With astonishing inventiveness, Lowry has again made a plain and unforgettable setting for this thrilling tale that raises profound questions about the mystery of art, the importance of memory, and the centrality of like. (Ages 10 and older) –Patty Campbell
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YOU’LL HATE IT UNLESS YOUR A FEMAL. ALL MALES DON’T READ IT.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If I could have rated this with negative stars, I would have.
Gathering Blue is such a waste of time that I couldn’t judge I had really been able to end it. Lowry wrote with an amusingly serious tone about something I establish to be absolutely ridiculous, and most regularly I establish myself laughing in disbelief that this book had even been published.
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The main character is Kira, a young teenage girl whose leg is twisted and whose parents are both dead. The people in the village don’t want her alive because she doesn’t make a contribution. Sorry to say the book continues, and “the council” decides to keep her alive because she has mad weaving skills! If you reflect that’s a silly reason, reflect again. “The Singer” of “The Gathering” wears a special robe, and Kira is the only one who has the magical gift of weaving. This is very far into the book, too…nearly to the end. Nothing happens throughout the entire book until the very end, and the ending isn’t very surprising.
Lowry does not know what the plot of the book is until the very end, it seems..all but the last 10 pages are about nothing whatsoever.
Normally, in books with a mysterious scenery to them, there are questions you want answered. Lowry doesn’t indicate that there are any suspicions or questions we are hoping to solve…the questions suddenly just appear at the very end, when you are told the answers.
This book was excruciatingly dull, and the entire time, the only thought that came to mind was factually, “Who the hell cares? A book all about a gifted weaver weaving a huge robe and finding out her enormous weaving talent killed her own mother?” I suggest that no one wastes their time reading such a silly book. More like I insist.
Anyone who is defending the quality of this book must not read very regularly. You couldn’t find a deeper meaning in this book if you tried.
[SPOILER: It is set in the future, and Jesus comes back and impregnates the 12-year-ancient, crippled Kira with sextuplets. Soon everyone on the entire planet are nothing but gifted, crippled weavers that like to wear fine clothes and Jesus sandals.]
Did you like that tale? There is a deeper meaning, I assure you. You just didn’t get it. Maybe if you were smarter and could read between the lines, then you would know. Too terrible.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When I finished “Number the Stars”,I said to myslef, ‘Its impossible for Lois Lowery write a book that is worse than this. I stand corrected.By the way, I wasted a week reading this “fantastic book”. The book starts out in a primitive village in the future. A orphan named Kira mom just died,and she has weaving powers. Ohhhh, weaving powers, thats like being able to read the minds of rocks.Also, How many books and movies start out pretty much like that? But, Kira fortunatly has a messed up leg. WHOOPPIEE! This lady wants to get rid of the waste of space, but Kira and the lady go through a examination type thing. The jury and judge are these people called the Council of Guardians. Kira wins and stays in the Council Edifice, where the trail is. Kira finds out that the Council are murders and her ‘dead’ dad comes back. This book was more predictable than a disney movie. I still can’t judge two things: one, idiots reflect this book is ‘well written’. Two, why would people cut down a tree for this pathetic excuse of a book?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I absolutely despised this book. It was very dull, and i just didn’t want to end the book; it was so terrible!! It is very identical to her additional book, “The Giver.” If you liked to read “The Giver” then u’ll like this book…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was an dreadful book. I don’t know why this book is supposed to be so excellent. I would rather read some Barney book than this. The ending of the book was really confusing. I don’t recomend it to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5