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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
I’m glad I got the audio version of this. I don’t think I would have been able to read it
I went from THOROUGHLY enjoying this book and the way context was slowly doled out to feeling like everything moved too fast and too many threads were left hanging. A rollercoaster! I've been thinking about this book a lot, but not necessarily with fondness.
Update: I listened to a podcast discussion of this book (hello, fellow Ask Ronna Carriage House members) and it turns out I (unsurprisingly) missed about 30 biblical allegories. "Threads left hanging" = me genuinely not catching a Sodom and Gomorrah reference or whatever else was in there. Whoops!
It also has me thinking a lot more about the strength of the premise of this book -- not catastrophe, necessarily, but how different generations view its inevitability and their role therein. (Something to think about forever: the national, multi-million dollar public service campaigns BEGGING my grandparents' and parents' generations to just... not... litter.) So now I DO want to talk about it! Especially if you can tell me all the bible references I missed.
Update: I listened to a podcast discussion of this book (hello, fellow Ask Ronna Carriage House members) and it turns out I (unsurprisingly) missed about 30 biblical allegories. "Threads left hanging" = me genuinely not catching a Sodom and Gomorrah reference or whatever else was in there. Whoops!
It also has me thinking a lot more about the strength of the premise of this book -- not catastrophe, necessarily, but how different generations view its inevitability and their role therein. (Something to think about forever: the national, multi-million dollar public service campaigns BEGGING my grandparents' and parents' generations to just... not... litter.) So now I DO want to talk about it! Especially if you can tell me all the bible references I missed.
A brilliant, disturbing and inventive story of climate change, connection and revelation. It’s unlike so much of what anyone’s read. Biblical stories provide structure to this surprising tale, and there were times I had no idea where this book was taking me. Much to ponder.
Millet pulls together a brilliant cli-fi novel and allusions to the bible in A Children's Bible. The allusions are perfect. The reader certainly recognizes the bible stories, but they aren't exact - just a hint. They way the story is woven to show climate change is remarkable. Since it's setting is in the present, it's haunting the way it turns apocalyptic. The kids in the novel are the heroes plotting to save themselves (and some animals). This will be a book I revisit to see what I missed.
don’t usually like allegories but this blew me away. funny, sad, beautiful - all on a line to line level but also as a cohesive whole. liked the plot too.
3 1/2. I loved it for the first half or so, then it went in such weird directions. I tried to roll with it but I failed.
This book is The Catcher in the Rye, The Lord of the Flies, and The Road all tied up into one short but beautiful story about a group of children on vacation with their parents who when confronted with a series of increasingly dire events begin to realize the gaps that divide them from their parents might not be as large as they had once thought.
I zoomed through this book. It's smart, entertaining, thrilling, and at the end of the day, tender and poignant. Happy to have started off my 2021 reading list with such a great one.
I zoomed through this book. It's smart, entertaining, thrilling, and at the end of the day, tender and poignant. Happy to have started off my 2021 reading list with such a great one.
Totally plausible and hits home. Surreal. Edges the line toward pedantic but you can’t blame the author for that, it’s necessary to toe the boundaries for this kind of thing. Mind blown
Love a good apocalyptic story- this one told from the perspective of teens who blame their parents' generation for the state of their deteriorating world.