An Illuminating Child

Last Thursday we put The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton to bed. After much discussion the Cityside Book Club have decided to give the book a 3.5/5 Star rating. Some of the feedback about the book included:

 

“if given the time, I would like to finish the book. It’s very deep and complex and something you really have to focus on, but very interesting and seemingly enjoyable. ”

“... liked how the author tied everything together nicely, didn’t leave any loose ends.”

“It’s not a light and easy read, it’s one you need to focus on, otherwise you might get lost and have to go back a few pages to re-read something from the past character you might have missed”

And so we bid farewell to The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and say hello to The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

 

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey is about:

"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm, she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning, the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them." - Good Reads

 

I hope you all enjoy this read,
Jamie