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Another one of my all time favorite books of all time. Seriously this is my third time reading this book and I can not say enough good things about it. The concise way Lowry crafts this story with depth, and so many feelings: curiosity, anger, sadness, happiness, and being able to do all of that under 250 pages is incredible. If you somehow don’t know what this book is about, it's about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a seemingly perfect community, but discovers that it comes at a high ...more
Another one of my all time favorite books of all time. Seriously this is my third time reading this book and I can not say enough good things about it. The concise way Lowry crafts this story with depth, and so many feelings: curiosity, anger, sadness, happiness, and being able to do all of that under 250 pages is incredible. If you somehow don’t know what this book is about, it's about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a seemingly perfect community, but discovers that it comes at a high ...more

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