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Hello, my dear readers!

   

   Today I’d like to tell you about my book-choice. This time I wanted to choose something really interesting and exciting. I had no special ideas about the book and the author. I just came to the bookshop and started to overlook different books. I was confused because I liked more than one book and I couldn’t choose. So I decided not to hurry and read about these books at home. By the way, it was a good decision. Reading some reviews and the extracts at home, I chose the book which is called “Delirium” by Lauren Oliver.

   I haven’t heard about the author before. But now I know that Lauren Oliver is the rising star of young adult fiction and an American author of the novels “Before I Fall” and “the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem”. These books are real bestsellers.

   Delirium is a dystopian young adult novel, published in January 2011, about a young girl, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease.

   Lauren Oliver says that the inspiration for Delirium came to her one day at the gym. She had recently read a Gabriel Garcia Márquez essay where he said that all books were about either love or death. Her first book (“Before I Fall”) was about death, she wanted to write a book about love. At the gym she was watching a news report about a pandemic, and the two ideas combined in her head to form the central concept of the Delirium books.

   

   That’s why the slogan of the book is “What if love were a disease?”. It’s very enigmatic and exciting, isn’t it? What do you think about the title “Delirium”? What can it mean… As for me I’m going to get to know. Later I’ll share with you all my thoughts and impression. I hope it will be interesting. See you soon!

Best wishes,

Kate