Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ten Things I Loved About [Book Title], a topic suggested by me! The book I’ve chosen is one I read a few months ago, The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks. I could have come up with lots more reasons why I loved it but here are just ten:
- Set in 2030, it depicts – through the medium of fiction – the havoc that extreme climate change might cause, including changes to our lifestyles and limitations on our freedoms
- It explores the various ways society responds to those who are different: acceptance, curiosity, exploitation, intrusion, prejudice, fear
- It is about the unconditional love of a parent for a child
- It poses the ethical question, just because you are able to do something does that mean you should?
- It highlights the danger of what can happen when technology, power and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals
- It brilliantly evokes what it’s like to be a person who is uniquely different from everyone else
- As well as dealing with serious issues it’s also a moving love story
- It taught me a lot about the evolution of our species
- The ending left me with tears running down my cheeks
- I had the opportunity to tell Sebastian Faulks just that before he signed my copy of the book at last year’s Henley Literary Festival
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