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...ancient gift-giver's quandary: jewelry or chocolate? Now you have a third choice: chocolate jewelry. Boucheron, the venerable Place Vend?me jeweler, has launched a new line of rings in creamy-brown gold. They were designed by creative director Solange Azagury-Partridge, who was inspired when her research team showed her a sample of the "chocolate" gold. "I had been coming up with turns of phrase using bouche (the French word for mouth)," Azagury-Partridge says. "Like l'eau ? la bouche ... mouth-watering. It's all about being edible and delicious, and that color of gold symbolized it perfectly...
...occasional criticism that Lowry is doing the Devil’s work hasn’t deterred the author from continuing the story of The Giver, now the first in a trilogy. The Giver’s intentionally ambiguous ending spurred endless inquiries as to the fate of the main character, Jonas. This strong reader response inspired Lowry to make herself a t-shirt that read in large letters “Jonas Lives!” (although she was always too embarrassed to wear it). She then decided to write a second book, Gathering Blue, where Jonas shows...
...being an integral piece of school curriculum is not new to Lowry. The author’s Newberry Prize-winning novel, The Giver, about a community that, in order to end conflict, gives up colors, weather, choices and love, is read at schools throughout the world. “They read The Giver in Germany,” Lowry says, “as the beginning of their unit on World War II—the teachers use the community in the book as an example of the effects of totalitarian rule to soften the blow of upcoming lessons...
While Lowry’s literature is used in classrooms around the world, however, her work has not been immune to controversy. The Giver, imbued with political and religious implications, has also been deemed an invocation of Satan and has been banned in schools in California, Montana and Ohio. Lowry, when asked about the controversy surrounding this book, laughs and says, “I think there’s a website called ‘Lois Lowry is the antichrist.com’—I find it quite interesting...
Messenger, like The Giver, will tell the story of a dystopian community, to which people come for asylum. But a dangerous Forest—Lowry emphasizes that it is Forest with a capital “F”—surrounds the village. People can safely come through Forest into the village, but if they try to leave, Forest entangles them and “they die a hideous death,” Lowry says, adding that “I love writing gross, scary, and disgusting scenes.” The only person who can safely enter...