Trying something new

It's been a while since my last entry. I, once more, apologize for that. I had a couple of ideas about new posts, and I will still write them, but right now, I want to try something I haven't done before.

It's easy to rave on about a great book that we've read, but what about as it is being read?

Today I began the novel, "Epitaph Road"


I would like to blog about this while I am reading the novel instead of afterwards.

Pages 1 - 62

First things is this book was on the list of dystopian novels that I referenced in an earlier post. In this case, 97% of the world's men have been killed by a plague. The women have been left unscathed. Jump ahead 30 years, and the world is now governed by women, no wars, little crime, money to spend on health care, the environment, education....Sounds too good to be true. With no men around the women have rebounded and created a world vastly different from the one when men were dominant.

Kellen is a boy living in a world of women and girls. Males have their lives strictly regulated and only a small percentage of baby boys are allowed to be born.

How can he not feel strangled, and imprisoned by this?

This reminds me of a book I read in University where the women were the controlling gender.

It all sounds good, but there has to be a catch. Something has to happen to Kellen to pit him against the ruling women. I have a feeling he will need to leave his home.