panThis Orcadian verse SFF novel with accompanying standard southern English version tells the story of a student returning to a space station from her art studies who forms a relationship with a visitor to the station.
While it was fun matching up the two versions and listening to the audiobook on Everand, there seemed to be a lot missing from the actual story which suddenly just stopped in the middle of the action. A disappointment.
This week I‘ve had the opportunity to visit a cousin who‘s been teaching in a dual language village school in Alaska for several years. She shared the essay “In Quinhagak” from this book. It details the writer‘s visit to a village where an archaeological dig is working to preserve a 500 year old village in the same area of Alaska before it‘s washed away by the sea. It was fascinating to read and see details similar to the village where she lives.
This the book @Centique ?
It sounds fantastic! Thanks so much! You have brightened my world again. 🤍🩵💙🩶
pickIt‘s wonderful that Liptrot found a way to live her life without binge drinking self destruction&that her memoir/writing has garnered success.Yet,the first half of the book is heartbreaking&exhausting.The second half,set on the islands of Orkney,where she grew up but doesn‘t feel she really belongs&where she finds stability/some form of healing(for lack of a better word), are a fine blend of nature writing& introspection.But it was very heavy&sad.
pickI cant give you a photo of wild islands and massive shipwrecks but heres a yacht that ran aground locally for you! 😂
Like @Cathythoughts i saw that this is now a movie and thought i‘d read the book 💕 Amy returns to the Orkney islands as a recovering alcoholic. She explores nature while she contemplates her past life and possible future. Sometimes meditative writing can leave me cold but i just loved this.⬇️
pickAnother island story. Orkney. I saw that Saoirse Ronan will play the lead in the movie of The Outrun, so I wanted to read the book. I loved the island setting, the wild unforgiving and beautiful landscape, the cliffs , and the basic close to the earth lives the islanders live.
I‘m looking so forward to the movie now.
pickI completely understand why this was nominated for the women‘s prize for non-fiction. Masud weaves her stories of life searching the countryside in England with her memories from her traumatic childhood in Pakistan.
