Antarctica
3 journalers for this copy...
Maybe if I read this in July it won't seem so hot.
"It's a dog-eat-dog world, especially if you shoot half your huskies and feed them to the rest." p. 267
So much ice and snow and rock and ice and more ice and rock and snow! Main characters are full and thoughtful people interacting with the environment in ways that make an interesting and complex story. Living in Antarctica is by necessity a very deliberate endeavor, so seeing it can show how living deliberately can affect life anywhere. One foot in front of the other, in front of the other, in front of the other... And how decisions and preparations you make now greatly affect later realities....
"We are the primitives of an unknown civilization." p. 594
Little bits of history are scattered throughout the novel, too. It inspires me to read about polar exploration. It was a topic I liked when I was a kid... I remember writing a report in elementary school on Robert Peary. I drew an illustration of a dog sled on construction paper.
It's a compelling topic. It is effortfulness that enables survival. Think about that next time your alarm rings on a monday morning and you groan at the dawning realization that you must get out of bed and get dressed and go to work. What would your life be like if you did not fight these necessary efforts, therefore making them unnecessarily harder?
My favorite moment in the book is Val's realization that the trekkers walked in no one's footsteps.
"Sometimes we are given opportunities, and we take them and make something fine, and the story of that will live forever". p. 494
Journal Entry 3 by nillabreen at Algiers, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Sq. in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/10/2007 UTC) at Algiers, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Sq. in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
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Released at the April bookcrossing meetup
Released at the April bookcrossing meetup
An unclaimed book from the April 2007 Boston Bookcrossing meeting destined for the Charleston Convention book buffet table! Enjoy!!
Released 17 yrs ago (4/14/2007 UTC) at
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On the way to the Book Buffet at the 2007 Bookcrossing Convention in Charleston, SC!
On the way to the Book Buffet at the 2007 Bookcrossing Convention in Charleston, SC!
In a box of books sent for release at the convention. Many thanks!
This book is traveling somewhere, after the convention. It may have gone home with an attendee, it may be in a collection of "remainders" to be released here in Charleston by us locals when we do our next mass release. It may have been picked up by an AF at the hotel, since we invited all hotel guests and employees to visit our bountiful book buffet. Wherever it is, we hope it has a pleasant journey, and checks in soon!
