"There's no point stopping for a meteor, Elora. They explode where they want."
This is catastrophic, as most asteroid impacts are. I'm not sure I've ev
"There's no point stopping for a meteor, Elora. They explode where they want."
This is catastrophic, as most asteroid impacts are. I'm not sure I've ever read such a bleak apocalypse story. Perhaps because it's so close to our real world. Asteroids are slightly more realistic than zombies. And I know the route they travel across the south west. Some of the towns aren't named, but I could work them out. And that shopping centre.
"She had seen how distance could turn into forever in this world."
I've never read The Grapes of Wrath, but after the despair of Elora and Vivienne's trail of horrors, I feel like I don't need to read the original. I wonder if the ice-cream is Caritas Romana?
"The town would blink away quietly, forgotten to the world amid the chaos and light."
My book group read it last month and I hadn't finished it, so I didn't go. Then the library took it off me, only to give it back in three days. Obviously it took me three more weeks to finish. I wish I had gone to hear what everyone thought.
Eta Draconis is an amazing book from every angle.
"The curtains were drawn, and beyond them lay the thickness of the present, coiled and ready. Existing once only and then never again."
The apocalypse is really not going well for me. First Dread Nation and then this, were truly amazing, original takes on the apocalypse and the ending The apocalypse is really not going well for me. First Dread Nation and then this, were truly amazing, original takes on the apocalypse and the ending was - where is the ending? Why am I asleep? Did the author run out of ink as they were writing their manuscript and due to the apocalypse could not buy more from the store?
Writers everywhere: a cliff-hanger is annoying as hell, but the reader knows there will be something after. No ending to your story is ... um ... no ending.
To really understand this horrific trend, The Girl in Red is a stand alone, so the whole "And then I woke up" (I'm paraphrasing not spoiling) means this book has no end. Dread Nation has a Book 2, but there is no point to reading it because Book 1 went straight to nothing in the last chapter.
I hope I will awake from this nightmare asap....more
Row, row, row your boat Gently down the river Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Just don't rip out your liver.
I got so bored in the middle this and (viewRow, row, row your boat Gently down the river Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Just don't rip out your liver.
I got so bored in the middle this and (view spoiler)[I so wanted the School for the Blind to eat them for dinner, or at least blind them. And Victor - no no no no no. (hide spoiler)]...more
So I had to rewatch every ep of The Walking Dead. Oh dear. But don't worry, I'm psychologically ready for the zombie apocalypse.So I had to rewatch every ep of The Walking Dead. Oh dear. But don't worry, I'm psychologically ready for the zombie apocalypse....more
Turns out I was wrong. My boss is a consultant for mining companies in WA (not for OHS) and he told me that yes, sometimes a mining coUpdate: Mar 2020
Turns out I was wrong. My boss is a consultant for mining companies in WA (not for OHS) and he told me that yes, sometimes a mining company will pay for an OHS trainer from the US. He also says its a total junket, but mining companies have a lot of money to throw around. So maybe you should disregard everything I say and read the book. It is a very clever take on the apocalypse.
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I really liked the story, the setting, Pru's family. Not so much her crazy Dad - but he was the most important character in setting up the plot. Oh preppers, go back to your bunker and don't come out. And Pru has a dog! The reasons for the apocalypse are suitably out there, but (according to preppers) are a "definite" possibility.
Something I didn't like was whats-his-name love interest. The romance aspect was very well done - not insta love people, insta lust. What I didn't like was his mothers and him coming from the US via Puerto Rico.
OHS is so important at mine sites. Even without an apocalypse mine sites are a death trap if you're not paying attention. Australia (and the world) has multitudes of OHS consultancies. There is no way a mining company would pay an OHS trainer to come to Australia from the US. The trainer would likely come from Perth. If Lili Wilkinson wants to tick all her diversity boxes, Australia has a whole lot of brown people who are just as down-trodden as Puerto Ricans are in the US. Our First Nations people top that list.
Add to that - there isn't a single Aboriginal character in the book. Wtf?? The setting is the Kimberley, where Aboriginal people make up 42% of the population. In Australia overall they make up 3% of the population. https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov...
Perhaps there were SCs I missed?? Jubilee's population has every non-white cultural group except Aboriginal people.
And there's Pru being bi. Lili Wilkinson has done this before in Pink. Like that story, the MC has a boy LI most of the book. Pru talks about kissing a girl prior to the story, so it's more tokenistic than Pink (where the MC has an ex girlfriend with a big part in the story). Is this bi-erasure? Oh is it me doing bi-erasure by saying I want a bi character to end up with a same-sex partner?
Meanwhile IRL we have a pandemic on the way. Pru just had one apocalypse, now here's another. She really does never catch a break....more
"If we don't adhere to the convention of calling shotgun, what rule of law is left to us?"
It took me months to finish this. Not because I didn't love
"If we don't adhere to the convention of calling shotgun, what rule of law is left to us?"
It took me months to finish this. Not because I didn't love it, but half way in, the library wanted it back and I had to go back on the 3mth waiting list. In that time I forgot a few things, like the two updates I added that were exactly the same about 150p. apart:
Well that escalated.
Basically it was all escalation - from riots and murderous mobs, to martial law and tattooed psychopaths (with Grandma in tow). To round things out, a teenage con-man and a small wildfire. The action didn't stop.
That ending was (view spoiler)[not quite as momumental as the story demanded. The water just reappeared? Was the tap for the Colorado River turned back on and the whole Tap-Out was only a bureaucratic bungle? I'm glad it wasn't set up as a series, but the end was a a cop out. (hide spoiler)]...more
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