Scan barcode
A review by kathryn08
My Sister Sif by Ruth Park
3.0
I read this in high school and was keen to re-read it again as I could only remember bits and pieces about it.
It was a more conservationist story than I recalled, and I couldn’t remember the ending at all. It was interesting that it was set in 2000, which at the time I read it, was still in the future, but it was written in 1986, which is the year that the main character of the book was born in. I don’t know whether this occurred to me when I first read it, but this time around, I wondered why it was set only slightly into the future - maybe Ruth Park thought our world was degenerating faster than it was, and if she set it too far ahead, climate change would happen earlier than in the book. And I guess she may have wanted it to be a warning - to look to our care of the planet and make changes while we still could.
I do remember reading it the first time, and thinking I'd quite like to go to Rongo - before anything happens to it - and I felt the same on this reading. 3.5★
It was a more conservationist story than I recalled, and I couldn’t remember the ending at all. It was interesting that it was set in 2000, which at the time I read it, was still in the future, but it was written in 1986, which is the year that the main character of the book was born in. I don’t know whether this occurred to me when I first read it, but this time around, I wondered why it was set only slightly into the future - maybe Ruth Park thought our world was degenerating faster than it was, and if she set it too far ahead, climate change would happen earlier than in the book. And I guess she may have wanted it to be a warning - to look to our care of the planet and make changes while we still could.
I do remember reading it the first time, and thinking I'd quite like to go to Rongo - before anything happens to it - and I felt the same on this reading. 3.5★