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This is a very dreamy book, I mean it's really not easy to work out what's going on. It's an experience with creativity.
'Must go,' and he rises to his feet so abruptly that the chair falls over with a clatter. He places both hands on his father's shoulders and bends forward to kiss the grey stubble of his father's cheek. In spite of the difference in age they do look very similar; it's not only that they share the same foreign darkness of skin and eye but they have the same haunted expression as if they were both hemmed by identical ghosts. p17
I liked that, but I don't really know what struck me about that paragraph over all the others to that point. Now that things have changed in the house, I don't get as much time to write up what I've read the day I read it. :p
'They were draining the land to get the peat and there was the dodo, its beak, its feathers, everything in perfect condition, but it needed to be carefully cleaned. They also found lots of bones; it seems that hundreds of dodos had gone to die there although no one knew why.'
'I know why,' says the boys mother very quietly. 'The dodos went to the Pool of Dreams because they were lonely and wanted to be all of them together in the cold water.' p67
Again, don't know what struck me about this section, other than that I liked it.
'Yes,' said the boy when the silence seemed to demand something from him. p83
I liked this phrasing, but I think it was used once or twice more. Wish I could remember better. This book was beautiful and the imagery was good and all, but it was very abstract in a way.
I sit on the edge of the bed and wait. 'Let's go for a walk,' he says in a voice that is so tiny I have to bend forward to catch the words before they evaporate. p146
There's a line I just loved.
And that's the whole of my notes. It was a quick book to read and brought a lot to mind. It was very visual and poetic and deals with memory and such things... but I think I'd need to read it again to really get some of the things... Or maybe I don't need to. Review will follow.
'Must go,' and he rises to his feet so abruptly that the chair falls over with a clatter. He places both hands on his father's shoulders and bends forward to kiss the grey stubble of his father's cheek. In spite of the difference in age they do look very similar; it's not only that they share the same foreign darkness of skin and eye but they have the same haunted expression as if they were both hemmed by identical ghosts. p17
I liked that, but I don't really know what struck me about that paragraph over all the others to that point. Now that things have changed in the house, I don't get as much time to write up what I've read the day I read it. :p
'They were draining the land to get the peat and there was the dodo, its beak, its feathers, everything in perfect condition, but it needed to be carefully cleaned. They also found lots of bones; it seems that hundreds of dodos had gone to die there although no one knew why.'
'I know why,' says the boys mother very quietly. 'The dodos went to the Pool of Dreams because they were lonely and wanted to be all of them together in the cold water.' p67
Again, don't know what struck me about this section, other than that I liked it.
'Yes,' said the boy when the silence seemed to demand something from him. p83
I liked this phrasing, but I think it was used once or twice more. Wish I could remember better. This book was beautiful and the imagery was good and all, but it was very abstract in a way.
I sit on the edge of the bed and wait. 'Let's go for a walk,' he says in a voice that is so tiny I have to bend forward to catch the words before they evaporate. p146
There's a line I just loved.
And that's the whole of my notes. It was a quick book to read and brought a lot to mind. It was very visual and poetic and deals with memory and such things... but I think I'd need to read it again to really get some of the things... Or maybe I don't need to. Review will follow.
