Sep 27, 2009
The People of Sparks
by Jeanne DuPrau
With the sequel, DuPrau picks up after everyone from Ember has already come up above ground. I wish she hadn’t, I think it would have been really interesting to learn how they all got out. It was good to hear about it though. I wonder what the third and fourth books will be like.
I like following along with how Lina and Doon develop as people. It’s hard to imagine people so pure at heart. It’s easier to idealize people in literature, but I guess if there are such pure of heart people, they would be children. All the people I can think of who are so good, good in spirit and in mind, have very childlike characteristics. And I aspire to get back to my childhood, when my temper wasn’t quick to judge, and when I assumed that people were all really good at heart.