I'd have read The Dead and the Gone, anyway, but I'm looking forward to it even more, now.

It would have been nice if she'd balanced the religious aspect better, but that was my only complaint about the book. Maybe the author wanted to show two ends of the spectrum. My sentiments exactly, and very well stated. I don't like it when religion is portrayed as just one big bad monster Not sure I can wait, though! I'm going to look for a copy, today. I've already put The Dead and the Gone on my wish list. Maybe the author was trying to show that belief in a higher power can easily be twisted to the point that it's not really anything but the individual's will? Or something like that! :)

(Oct.That's a great way to put it, I don't think those 'Christian' characters had anything to do with Christ. Miranda's changing priorities, undying love for her family and heightened appreciation of simple pleasures will likely provoke discussion and inspire gratitude for life as we know it now. Things are bad enough without having to remind myself of just how bad things are,' she explains), her words also evoke a strain of hope which proves to be her most essential survival tool. Though the entries paint a grim picture of a rapidly shrinking civilization ('I write stuff down in here and I don't read it.

The story unfolds through Miranda's journal entries, from May, when the asteroid strikes, to the following March. This survival tale by the author of The Year Without MichaelĬelebrates the fortitude and resourcefulness of human beings during critical times. The book may be lengthy, but most readers will find it absorbing from first page to last. Yet their situation becomes more critical as other unexpected disasters arise. They have a pantry filled with canned goods and plenty of logs to fuel their wood-burning stove. Thanks to her mother's foresight and preparedness, Miranda and her two brothers are better off than many families in their Pennsylvania community. Suddenly, things she has taken for granted-electricity, news from the outside world and three square meals a day-are a thing of the past. When an asteroid collides with the moon, causing natural disasters-tidal waves, volcanoes, earthquakes and climate changes-on Earth, life as 16-year-old Miranda knows it will never be the same.

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