The way the moon is moved and the effects it has are just impossible. That did a lot to spoil the book for me. Still, it is highly rated so read it and make up your own mind. But if you hate it too, remember that I warned you! ~Tim

It won’t work.

1. There aren’t enough copies, even on Amazon, for all of the kids to buy. Several kids have been mobbing the library and the downtown branch only had three copies, and are frankly mystified that high school kids are reading it at all.
2. We can’t legally require kids to buy a book, anyway.
3. The math department is not cooperating.
4. The science department is cooperating even less, because they maintain that his could.never.happen.
5. I could go on. . .but I won’t. I’m just learning to nod, smile, and do what I want with the door closed.

On a real scientific note, there is an awesome meteor shower visible on August 13-14. You can check it out with even rudimentary binoculars.

I thought the science department would have fun pointing out all the scientific inaccuracies — still basing lessons on the book, after all. There is a third (and the author says, final) moon crash book, This World We Live In, already written due to be published in the spring. All I can say is, “ACK!” ~Tim

I so wish I hadn’t gotten embroiled in the debate, and just let this die a natural death, which it will. No one I know–save the four middle-aged women who selected this piffle–plan to support this endeavor. I think reading is terrific, but if they wanted to do something post-apocalyptic, why not do “Alas, Babylon,” which is at least compelling and set in Central Florida? This book is so effing wretched that I can’t even begin to describe its wretchedness. Oh, well. You know.

I thought of Alas, Babylon too but I haven’t read it recently enough to remember what reading level it’s on. At any rate I think it would have been a much better choice even if a little dated. I don’t read a lot of YA lit; is LAWKI really at the top of what’s out there recently? Lord, I hope not!