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A review by kaeli
Naamah by Sarah Blake
5.0
Wooooow this is THE quarantine novel. Cooped up with your family? Restless? Stuck in one place? Overwhelmed and angry by what’s happening in the world? Naamah gets you.
I kept picturing how this would be as a movie. Some of the dream sequences I think would be clay-mation (like when Naamah is a giant made of stone), but not all. When God speaks to Naamah in human form (not as a vulture), he should not be depicted. We should only see the shadow of a figure standing over Naamah and focus on her face looking at Him, her reactions. Some of my casting ideas:
Naamah: Viola Davis OR Tara Fitzgerald (I also pictured Sarai as Tara Fitzgerald sometimes, OR Gugu Mbatha-Raw if we are going for a younger-looking Sarai)
Adata: Brenda Song
Neela: Sarah Gadon
Ham: Manny Jacinto
Japheth: Trevor Noah
Need ideas for Sadie and Shem, Noah, the voice of God, the angel (who would have to be CGI’d to be almost unrecognizable), and Bethel
I think this could be really cinematically incredible but also would be very hard to film. You’d need a kick-ass animal trainer.
Also, I was very surprised that the curse of Ham didn’t become a thing in this book. Also, they already had wine on the boat, which takes away OT claim that Noah invented winemaking only after the waters receded.
Anyways, this makes the feeling of the Flood so visceral in a way you never really think of. The horror of the world destroyed. How much effort to care for all the animals on the boat. The fear and uncertainty. And I never thought about how the floodwaters weren’t just endless ocean, it would have been a different kind of body of water. Not that deep, not salty... the world was just built so exquisitely.
I kept picturing how this would be as a movie. Some of the dream sequences I think would be clay-mation (like when Naamah is a giant made of stone), but not all. When God speaks to Naamah in human form (not as a vulture), he should not be depicted. We should only see the shadow of a figure standing over Naamah and focus on her face looking at Him, her reactions. Some of my casting ideas:
Naamah: Viola Davis OR Tara Fitzgerald (I also pictured Sarai as Tara Fitzgerald sometimes, OR Gugu Mbatha-Raw if we are going for a younger-looking Sarai)
Adata: Brenda Song
Neela: Sarah Gadon
Ham: Manny Jacinto
Japheth: Trevor Noah
Need ideas for Sadie and Shem, Noah, the voice of God, the angel (who would have to be CGI’d to be almost unrecognizable), and Bethel
I think this could be really cinematically incredible but also would be very hard to film. You’d need a kick-ass animal trainer.
Also, I was very surprised that the curse of Ham didn’t become a thing in this book. Also, they already had wine on the boat, which takes away OT claim that Noah invented winemaking only after the waters receded.
Anyways, this makes the feeling of the Flood so visceral in a way you never really think of. The horror of the world destroyed. How much effort to care for all the animals on the boat. The fear and uncertainty. And I never thought about how the floodwaters weren’t just endless ocean, it would have been a different kind of body of water. Not that deep, not salty... the world was just built so exquisitely.