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Clover Laurie
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“Life is sweet isn’t it”

When you hear this saying you may think of someone laying on a beach, or when they are with family having fun. Yet you wouldn’t normally connect this saying to a 102 year old woman who has almost no family (other then her great granddaughter, Adri). She also lives in Kansas in the middle of nowhere, and has not many friends. She has almost no reason to be happy, yet she is. For example, she is very cheerful although Adri isn’t that nice, or talkative. In the end they become best friends. The quote is trying to tell the reader to be happy no matter what happens in life. There is always a reason to be happy. (If you think there isn’t, there is, but you just have to look first). Another quote that I like, is “Words live longer than people”. I like that quote because words make things that were once not possible, a reality. Such as going to Mars and creating a colony to live there, or the horrible war in the 1940s. With words, we can learn about the world in which we live in, whether it’s in the past, or present. Overall, I really enjoyed Midnight at the Electric, and would like to read more from this author. The only thing that I didn’t like, was that it was hard to follow the scenario at first, but then it got easier to understand as the plot goes along.

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