I just finished reading a book called Feed. The book is basically about runaway marketing and technology in the new future. You could call it a run of the mill dystopian future America, but it was a little more than that. There were parts of it that made me want to yell "right on" when the characters were talking about the strange things their friends were doing. For example, in the book, people are hooked into a "feed" of constant information. Imagine Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and email/IM always available in your brain. When you sleep, advertisements come to your dreams. The people of this future have begun to grow lesions. Some say because of the feed, others for some other reason all together, but once a popular "feedcast" (TV show in your head) starts to glamorize the lesions, it isn't long before everyone else is getting them cosmetically added to their own bodies in order to be cool. Now imagine that the lesions are a new pair of shoes or a music group. The same thing happens now as it is described in the "future" but at the same time, much more out of control.

That was a terrible, long, terrible paragraph. I wish I could have put my words together a little better for you all, but it's just not how it happened. I do recommend you all take a look at the book. It's cataloged as YA so it wouldn't be too much for you to read. I got it done in a few days. You could probably do it faster.

I'm now moving on to a book called Impossible. It's about a girl who will go crazy the moment she gives birth because of a family curse. She must complete three impossible tasks in order to stay the coming curse, but will she be able to do it in time?