I heard about Ready Player One on an NPR book review show, and I want it. It is a nonfiction adult/young adult selection set in 2044 Oklahoma starring Wade Watts. The gist is human civilization is in collapse, and people spend more time in virtual, glossy worlds than in the real world of violent crime and poverty. Additionally, according to the NPR review, the author Ernest Cline has included a whole slew of 1980's pop culture references. And a side note, Cline apparently drove all over the country for Ready Player One's book tour in a DeLorean (very Back to the Future, eh?).
Read an excerpt here.
No time for book requests at le bibliotheque with a pending departure for the north. This girl is headed to a bookstore for the paperback.
*For more fun, check out the Ready Player One playlist put together by the folks at Forever Young Adult, a fun book blog with multipe authors for adults into YA lit (aka nerds).
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