![]() “Delirium,” the first and titular book of the series, follows Lena, the trilogy’s anti-establishment, determined protagonist, as she fights back against a government that seeks to protect society from amor deliria nervosa, a deadly disease more commonly known as Love. Little did I know these would be the books to get me back into reading and save me from disaster once the COVID-19 pandemic came around. They had almost given up hope when a friend of mine recommended Lauren Oliver’s “Delirium” series. Sadly, their copious spending did nothing to revitalize my love for reading. Worried and anxious that I had abandoned my most beloved hobby, my parents started compulsively buying new books for me to get back into my reading game. I used to devour three books a week on average until I suddenly stopped. Obsessed with my new bestie, I could have never predicted that I wouldn’t touch a book for anything other than academic purposes for the next four years. ![]() I was an 11-year-old starting my second semester of fifth grade when, after months of pleading with my parents, I was gifted my best-friend-slash-biggest-curse: the aforementioned golden iPhone. ![]() My worst one lasted four years … And my golden iPhone 5S was the culprit. Some reading slumps last a few weeks, others, a few months. Nevertheless, my love affair with dystopian novels - and objectively bad ones at that - began during my freshman year of high school, and might well have saved me from going insane during quarantine.īook lovers are no strangers to reading slumps. Call me fake all you want I can take the heat. I have a confession to make: I have never read George Orwell’s “1984”, nor Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Yet I still consider myself an avid fan of the dystopia genre.
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