First – this was the 50th book of the year for me. 50th! I’m stunned. Sure, the majority are audio, but even still, I’ve been listening to audiobooks for years and never get to the 50 mark. I ended up with 31 in 2006, 39 in 2005 and 2004. A lot of those were typically re-reads or super quick reads. Before 2004, I didn’t track my books, but I do know that I wasn’t reading a whole lot.
Now onto Life As We Knew It… From Goodreads:
It’s almost the end of Miranda’s sophomore year in high school, and her journal reflects the busy life of a typical teenager: conversations with friends, fights with mom, and fervent hopes for a driver’s license. When Miranda first begins hearing the reports of a meteor on a collision course with the moon, it hardly seems worth a mention in her diary. But after the meteor hits, pushing the moon off its axis and causing worldwide earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, all the things Miranda used to take for granted begin to disappear. Food and gas shortages, along with extreme weather changes, come to her small Pennsylvania town; and Miranda’s voice is by turns petulant, angry, and finally resigned, as her family is forced to make tough choices while they consider their increasingly limited options. Yet even as suspicious neighbors stockpile food in anticipation of a looming winter without heat or electricity, Miranda knows that that her future is still hers to decide even if life as she knew it is over.
Okay, a *squee* point before I talk about the book.
Miranda’s brother attends College at Cornell in Ithaca. Why did this make me squee? Ithaca is just up the road from me, so it always makes me squee when an author uses Ithaca/Cornell in a book.
The book itself was good. It wasn’t what I was expecting, for sure. I liked the diary format of it, it drew me in more than if it had been written different format. In a way, it was kind of fluffy, but it fits the format. I was worried when I first started, but I ended up liking it and wanting more. And since my library has the second book available as a digital download, it’ll be replacing one of the books I chose and will be the next book I dive into.
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