Water & Glass
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 6/19/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
This is a hardcover book. I was lucky enough to receive an Advance Review Copy from the publisher, Cloud Lodge Books, through the Early Readers Program of LibraryThing.
Abi Curtis is a published and winning poet so it is no surprise that the prose in this book has a poetical cadence. What was a surprise was how good this post-apocalyptic book is. I hope the awards committees for various prizes pay attention.
At some time in the future the oceans start to encroach on land due to melting of the ice caps. Every year people have to move away from the coastlines but otherwise life continues. People go to school, go to work, get married, even travel to some of the places that have already been drowned. Nerissa is a veterinarian and her skills in looking after the remaining animals are valued. So she gets an invitation to join the Baleen a combination ship/submarine which is planning to set sail before a final cataclysmic flood come. Baleen has an assortment of animals from elephants to one woolly rat from South America. Nerissa and her assistant Herman look after the animals while other places on the ship there is a garden, a shopping centre, a laundry, a hair salon, a kitchen, a social centre--all the amenities in short. Nerissa doesn't go out much but when the woolly rat, Molloy, goes missing she has to start exploring. And what she finds has her questioning the whole project.
It's pretty obvious that this book is based upon the Noah's Ark story in the Bible but I think there are also echoes of Moby Dick and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is very cleverly done and also beautifully written.
At some time in the future the oceans start to encroach on land due to melting of the ice caps. Every year people have to move away from the coastlines but otherwise life continues. People go to school, go to work, get married, even travel to some of the places that have already been drowned. Nerissa is a veterinarian and her skills in looking after the remaining animals are valued. So she gets an invitation to join the Baleen a combination ship/submarine which is planning to set sail before a final cataclysmic flood come. Baleen has an assortment of animals from elephants to one woolly rat from South America. Nerissa and her assistant Herman look after the animals while other places on the ship there is a garden, a shopping centre, a laundry, a hair salon, a kitchen, a social centre--all the amenities in short. Nerissa doesn't go out much but when the woolly rat, Molloy, goes missing she has to start exploring. And what she finds has her questioning the whole project.
It's pretty obvious that this book is based upon the Noah's Ark story in the Bible but I think there are also echoes of Moby Dick and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is very cleverly done and also beautifully written.
Journal Entry 3 by gypsysmom at McDonalds in Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada on Sunday, August 19, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (8/19/2018 UTC) at McDonalds in Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book by the condiments. This release is for the 2018 52 Towns in 52 weeks release challenge - Town #25 .
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
