The Measure: A Read with Jenna Pick

May’s bookclub read was The Measure by Nikki Erlick On an ordinary morning every person on the planet above the age of twenty two gets a box delivered to their door. Inside is a string whose length correlates to the length of your life. Would you believe it to be real? Would you open it? This book follows eight people who struggle with this new reality where you can choose to know exactly how long you have left to live. New prejudices arise and ...read more

Wow this was excellent! Thought provoking, great message and would make a perfect bookclub pick. I want to share this with others and talk about it for sure! This had many story lines which can sometimes be hard to differentiate, but it was easy to follow. Each chapter gave the name of who we were following. Plus it all came together nicely in the end, felt very satisfying. The writer did such a good job capturing the emotions of people and it fe...read more

I wouldn’t want to know the length of my string, would you?

Very good story of how the world and more specifically 8 characters', lives are forever changed by the appearance of mysterious strings foretelling the length of their life. I usually don't gravitate toward stories with so many characters because I get easily lost, but the way that this group of characters wound together to help the story progress was great and the story was ultimately very satisfying. Highly recommend his book!

Very interesting book. It reminded me of "They Both Die at the End" in the way that there is no "butterfly effect". I enjoyed it and am always a fan of books where all the characters connect in some way.