When we were brainstorming our plans for the final week of our YA Appreciation month, we realized the need to do a second Apocalypse/Dystopia day. And, when looking over what titles we both wanted to read, we decided to go with a classic: The Giver by Lois Lowry. As Ana had not yet read this dystopian classic, she finally decided to take it on. And Thea, who has loved The Giver since meeting the author in middle school, thought this was a very fitting time to give the companion novel Gathering Blue a read. (Note: Neither of us have read the third novel in the loose trilogy, Messenger, but we do plan on reading it soon!)