You should see the glow on your father’s face. We don’t have to give it any more thought, she said. And then I can understand why Daddy married her. Whenever I want to get mad at her, or just irritated because she really can be immensely irritating, she goes and does something nice. Well, I know it’s way too soon and I haven’t even discussed this with your father yet, but would you like to be the baby’s godmother? You don’t have to answer right away, but do think about it, all right?
Here she is.ĭad muffled the phone for a second so he could whisper something to Lisa and then she took the phone. Be sure to tell Lisa how happy I am for her. It’s great news, Dad, I said, because I knew I was supposed to. They’re coming for a couple of weeks in July, before you and Jonny visit.Īre you going to call Matt and tell him? I asked. Has Lisa told her family?įirst thing this morning, he replied. You can understand that, can’t you, honey? A little private time for Lisa and me before letting the world know. I would have called you right away but, well, we celebrated. The first one I had turned out so wonderfully. Of course it’s too soon to tell what it’s going to be, but as soon as we know, we’ll tell you. Isn’t that great! You’re going to have a little brother or sister. The baby is due in December, Dad crowed, like he was the first guy in the history of the world with a younger second wife about to have a baby. Only Mom had already taken Jonny to his baseball practice and of course Matt isn’t home from college yet, so I was alone to get the big news.
Read moreĭad called around 11 o’clock to let us know. I'm not sorry I read it, but would only guardedly recommend it. In a way, the book raised more questions for me than it answered and it's hard to call such a bleak tale enjoyable, though there is some hope throughout, since it was such difficult reading. While I liked Miranda for the most part and enjoyed her growth as she's forced to do things she never would have thought herself capable of, I questioned whether her family's complete isolation was necessary or even beneficial. I would have to read up on the science behind it, but I couldn't help but wonder if the fallout of one thing after another was an accurate "what could be" or a perfect storm of terrible events that have almost no chance of happening. Except, instead of a nuclear war that might have been preventable, we see the aftermath of a natural event that was absolutely no one's fault. Within hours, the tides are wreaking havoc with tsunamis across the world, the electricity is starting to fail, and Miranda and her family find themselves in survival mode.My reading tends more to the fantasy and teen dystopia side of science fiction, so this post-apocalyptic tale was a different sort of read for me and reminded me a bit of Alas, Babylon. When an asteroid is going to hit the moon, nobody took much notice because it wasn't supposed to do much - but, in fact, the asteroid was dense and knocked the moon off course, bringing it closer to earth. Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon. Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all-hope-in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open.
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