The Future of Us

(First post. Let's see how much I can screw this up.)

Sometimes, I like to go to my local library and blindly pick out random books to read. That way, I don't "judge the book by its cover." I picked The future of us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler. So far, it's interesting. It changes POVs between the two main characters. I like that because I know what goes on in both of their minds.

 

I rarely read these types of books since I'm going through a Fairy tale/Vampire/Werewolf/Anything-that-has-to-do-with-magic phase. Does that make sense? Probably not but I know what I mean... I think.

 

 

Anyway, it's 1996 and there's two main characters, Emma and Josh, who have been neighbors and best friends their entire lives until Josh misunderstood a situation and told Emma that he likes her... That made things pretty awkward for both of them. One day, Emma receives a computer from her father as a guilt gift for having a child with his new wife. Josh's mother forces Josh to personally give Emma an America Online CD-ROM for her computer. After an awkward interaction and other events, Emma installs the CD-ROM into her computer and creates her first AOL account. Just as she's about to write her first email to her friend, a "small white box with a blue border pops up." Can you guess what it is? Twitter! Ha-ha, just kidding~

 

It's Facebook. Dun DUN DUUUN.

 

Emma and Josh finds themselves, fifteen years in the future, on Facebook. Josh thinks it's a prank but Emma starts to genuinely think it's real and her future doesn't seem to be so bright.

 

I'm going to continue reading now!

 

L8r, g8r

 

-N