It's a bunch of years after the war. It has been exactly seventy-seven years since the war. It's been two generations now, since the war. It's like a mabrillion years after The War. Ohhh my Godddd, it's so many years after the war. Ever since the war, things have been different. After the War, everything changed. Nothing was the same after the war. The war changed everything. Now, society's bad. There was only one way…

The strangest thing about this project is realizing just how many books I didn’t read as a kid. Books that weren’t even on my radar. What on earth is My Friend Flicka? What the hell did I do as a child? Anyway, The Giver (Indiebound | Amazon) was definitely on my radar. That cover of the old man and the corner of a forest was on the shelves of every elementary school…