On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason

4.24 AVERAGE

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nats_brain's review

2.5
dark informative sad tense slow-paced
The good bit were excellent, the stories, memoir about his family. The bit about the environment felt like one long run on sentence of doom. I get it, the situation is dire, but omfg stop with regurgitating of reports. 
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cmwilliams29's review against another edition

4.5
challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Beautiful. I love the way Magnason weaves his story. It is about humans and planet and history and future and family and love and loss all at once. Brilliant. Stunning.

marandra's review

5.0
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

ingvarsteinn's review against another edition

5.0
Frábær sögumaður
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culturenator's review against another edition

4.0
challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced
Full review later.. 
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marissa86's review

4.0
informative reflective slow-paced
Non fiction about climate changes and time.
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askatknits's review

5.0
And time is like an image painted half by water — and half of it by me. - Steinn Steinarr

I believe this will likely be the best book I read all year. It is thought-provoking and incredibly moving. This book changed how I think about time and the effect I have on it.

I did not want this book to end, and I have reread several parts of it. It is a book that needs to live in my library... it begs for the reader to highlight passages, to dog-ear pages, to jot in personal notes... it is a book that I need to read again... and soon!

I highly recommend!

blairmahoney's review against another edition

4.0
A compelling look at climate change through the lens of the author's own family history and the history of Iceland. Beautifully conceived, but the interviews with the Dalai Lama seem a bit awkwardly inserted.

breadandmushrooms's review against another edition

2.5
hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

ennieeva's review against another edition

5.0
emotional informative reflective medium-paced