Hey there readers!!
I hope everyone’s holidays and New Years
were amazing and fun. I know mine were. I got to spend time with my family and
my amazing boyfriend Nick. I also finished up my fall semester in which I
passed all my classes, which is pretty darn good considering one of them I wasn’t
sure about at all. Right now I am on winter break and have a couple weeks
before I have to head back to the school grind again.
Upon
making a list of the books I need to put on here I realized I have fallen
really far behind. I have a long list of books that need to be put on this
blog, so I’m going to try and release a new blog every week. Possibly every Monday,
but again we will have to see how that goes once school starts up again.
Now my
last entry was the wrap up for the Sarah Dessen books and I did mention that my
next book was going to be a little different than the others I put on Reading
Racer. Why you might ask, well that’ because I realized I have a tendency to
read funny or romantic books. This isn’t a bad thing buuuuut, I bet for you
readers it can get pretty stagnant. So, this week on Reading Racer we are going
to be talking about Fragment written
by Warren Fahy .
Ok I’m
not going to lie it does have a bit of romance in it, not much. It is very much
a SciFi book, but I thought I’d give you a bit of a heads up. This book will
definitely peak many people’s interests because not only is it a book but there
is a movie adaption for it as well, with the same name. I must admit I have not
seen the movie yet, but I do intend on watching it and if anyone has seen it
let me know how it is.
Not
only is it now a movie, but the whole premise of the novel is wrapped around
theories of evolution. Most of our known habitats have been impacted by humans
in some way or form whether it is from industrialization, deforestation or
merely the miniscule act of exploring a new place. Everywhere we go as humans
we manage to leave a footprint. Our presence creates a ripple effect that can
impact everything from the migration of animals to the smallest change in genes
which can lead way to evolution.
That is
what this book is about. What happens to the evolutionary pattern of an island when
it hasn’t had any human contact for thousands of years? Will intelligent life
still form or is intelligent life the bane of all existence and eventually lead
to nature’s downfall? This book brings up a lot of interesting ideas on
evolution from DNA having a huge part in the death of an organism to sex
following the age old idea of predator versus prey. I also found this book even
more interesting because as I was reading it I was actually learning about some
of the concepts in my Biology class and I have to admit I nerded out about that
a lot.
In this book, you follow different
characters point of views as Hender’s Island is discovered by a reality TV
show. Due to the uniqueness of the organisms US governments are called in, as
are scientists from many fields. Fahy’s characters are colorful and lively and
represent various different thought processes that we would find in the world
today. For example we have a scientist who plays on people fears of humans’
impact on the planet and we a scientist who thinks intelligent beings are a
necessary step in evolution.
If
you love science read this book. If you don’t love science, well read this book
anyways because it will engage you almost instantly. I guarantee it. Well I
think that is all for now!
Keep
Turning those pages readers!!!
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