But if you don’t know it, then I can tell you this without spoiling it. And I’ll wager that many of you know the book because it was required reading at school for some time. It didn’t seem any worse than the newspaper. Began reading it aloud with my son after school. I was inspired to return to Lord of the Flies this week. A poem about books and children and the season we find ourselves in: He wore a t-shirt with green scales, puffy spikes sewn onto the back, a stuffed tail sticking out behind him. Seven years ago I was walking with Sara and a very small boy who was dressed as a monster for Halloween.

After reading it, I switched on the computer and Facebook showed me one of those pictures that is several years old. She wasn’t referring to our political moment exactly, she was gauging how she heard the story now against how she first heard it 60 years ago, but I heard in her essay a call to a deeper question.

Lois Lowry reread William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies and reflected on it. Yet there was another article in the New York Times last week, something of use from the Book Review. Just days before voting we feel more exhausted than inspired. And we’re not sure when it will end.Ī New York Times article on Friday revealed that 8 out of 10 Americans are repulsed by the presidential election. We’re worn and frazzled by the cycle of news and insults. Jeremy Rutledge, Circular Congregational Church

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