Week Six, The Knife of Never Letting Go

This week, we turn to the world of Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first of a trilogy that includes the preceding titles.  As the video suggests, both of these titles appear in the novel you will read this week.

As you read through the book, you might find some of these quotations useful for this week's discussion thread, for they touch on many of the central themes.

And check out the links at the bottom of

the Wikipedia Page; while this vehicle has its faults as pretty much every teacher tells you, the links pretty much always take you to good sources.


This novel also won the James Tiptree, Jr, award for "gender bending" Speculative Fiction; I had the honor years ago of serving on this jury for the impressive award.  

And Todd certainly learns about gender on this planet to which religious groups came; Todd, however, has never seen a live woman, so Viola will present him with many challenges, for gender plays a substantial role in the novel.

Introduction to Week Six:

Quiz review for The Knife of Never Letting Go.  

This review video covers the thirty questions in this week's quiz.  Do a good job: