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rms10I really love Andrea Barrett's writing, and The Voyage of the Narwhal did not disappoint. It captured the scientists' and explorers' thirst for glory and recognition, but it also got their loneliness. I think there's a lot of fiction about scientists that doesn't quite get the loneliness and awkwardness, but Barrett hits it every time. I wish she had spent a bit more time on the crewmen, though, or on the women left behind, all of whom lacked any power or control in the situation.
I admit that part of the reason I love this book so much is that Barrett paints the settings so well. This is a wonderful book to curl up with on a winter's day, when the days are short and the weather is crummy but you're inside with a cup of tea or some scotch.
I'm not really reading much of anything right now. I have The Sari Shop, by Rupa Bajwa, for the bus, but I haven't had much other time lately. I was thinking that I'd have time to read in Berkeley, but the Winter Olympics will be going on! I have no self-control in the face of hockey and curling and luge and short-track speed skating and ski-jumping.
In other news, that football team I like won their 8th game in a row on Sunday night. Go Steelers!
I admit that part of the reason I love this book so much is that Barrett paints the settings so well. This is a wonderful book to curl up with on a winter's day, when the days are short and the weather is crummy but you're inside with a cup of tea or some scotch.
I'm not really reading much of anything right now. I have The Sari Shop, by Rupa Bajwa, for the bus, but I haven't had much other time lately. I was thinking that I'd have time to read in Berkeley, but the Winter Olympics will be going on! I have no self-control in the face of hockey and curling and luge and short-track speed skating and ski-jumping.
In other news, that football team I like won their 8th game in a row on Sunday night. Go Steelers!
