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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Might be better than the first book, Green Glass Sea. So far, I love everything Ellen Klages I've read and seeing her speak is a riot, so next up are her science fiction short stories to see if she delivers consistently.
This is a very nice sequel to [b:The Green Glass Sea|149132|The Green Glass Sea|Ellen Klages|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172199683s/149132.jpg|2135456]. I loved being back in Dewey's world and finding out what happened next as she moved with the Gordon family to Alamogordo, New Mexico. World War II has just ended, and Dewey and Suze are in the eighth grade. Just as in The Green Glass Sea, the characters and the setting all feel very real. There were even a few shout-outs to us in the present day. This conversation between Dewey and Mrs. Gordon made me chuckle:
I also chuckled over Dewey's conversation with her friend Owen about whether televisions were a reality yet. Then later he comes running to tell her that he saw his first television in a shop in El Paso - even though they didn't have any stations there yet.
As I said, this is a very nice sequel and I recommend it to anyone who read and liked The Green Glass Sea.
Dewey turned the gas burner on low and poured milk into the saucepan. "In Home Ec, Mrs. Winfield said by the time we're grown-ups, every kitchen will have an atomic-powered oven that'll warm milk up in thirty seconds, and pop popcorn in a paper bag." She stirred in sugar and cocoa power. "Do you think that's true?"
"Atomic-powered? No, kiddo, that's just science fiction. Pie in the sky. I did read about an oven that uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves to produce heat, but I doubt it'll ever be a common household object." She took a sip of coffee. "Wouldn't that be nice, though? Instant dinners."
I also chuckled over Dewey's conversation with her friend Owen about whether televisions were a reality yet. Then later he comes running to tell her that he saw his first television in a shop in El Paso - even though they didn't have any stations there yet.
As I said, this is a very nice sequel and I recommend it to anyone who read and liked The Green Glass Sea.
This is the sequel to The Green Glass Sea. I read it without brushing up my memory of Sea, and didn't have any trouble dropping right into it. Dewey and Suze cope with becoming teenagers, their family's involvement in the atomic age, being expected to conform to gender roles, and all that stuff. The late 1940s world she creates feels very real. I stayed up until about 3am finishing it last night, so it's definitely compelling!
I cracked this sequel to The Green Glass Sea with no little trepidation. I've come to expect sophomore slump from YA books lately. I needn't have fretted; Klages hit this one out of the park. I think I like it better than TGGS despite the absence of Dick Feynman. Werhner von Braun (offstage) is hardly a substitute. Imagine, that's my biggest quibble with this book, that's how good it is.
Klages covers family and its arcane permutations while ably handling adolescence, what it was like to be a nontraditional girl in the 40s, the repercussions of Hiroshima, and how it felt to know that the people your dad worked with had been Nazis in the not too distant past. And a first kiss, too. There were so many balls in the air in this book it makes my mind boggle that the flow of the narrative was seamless. A masterpiece.
Highly recommended.
Klages covers family and its arcane permutations while ably handling adolescence, what it was like to be a nontraditional girl in the 40s, the repercussions of Hiroshima, and how it felt to know that the people your dad worked with had been Nazis in the not too distant past. And a first kiss, too. There were so many balls in the air in this book it makes my mind boggle that the flow of the narrative was seamless. A masterpiece.
Highly recommended.
A most enjoyable historical novel set in the aftermath of WWII America when atomic energy was all the rage. The story revolves around two teens whose fathers work/ed in the atomic energy field. The girls are smart and interested in technology and science, in a way that most of their female peers are not, and work at trying to fit into their high school world. The book deals effectively with the issues of family, minorities and gender inequalities. I quite liked it.
My one complaint is that slang words and phrases from the era seemed to be thrown in a way that didn't quite flow. I'm picky about that stuff and so more sensitive to it, I guess. It's hard to write about another time period and not put our own perceptions into theirs.
My one complaint is that slang words and phrases from the era seemed to be thrown in a way that didn't quite flow. I'm picky about that stuff and so more sensitive to it, I guess. It's hard to write about another time period and not put our own perceptions into theirs.
not as good as the green glass sea but still highly enjoyable. julie dretzin makes this audiobook an absolute delight