There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity turns off and gas is nowhere to be found. Eventually all utilities shut down completely, and without electricity and gas, there is no real news—-just rumors. I liked most of the story, with some head-shakes and guffaws peppered throughout.I had to think about this book overnight before figuring out what I thought about it. Their grief registers, yet the characters remain underdeveloped as people worth investing in.That’s not to discredit the work done by Page and Wood, both of whom go as deep as they can go with Rozema’s surface-level handling of the material (she also wrote the screenplay). Suspenseful and heartwarming. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY promises her second novel, WINDFALLS, is “a good prospect for reading groups.” Excerpts from her non-fiction work, THE LIFE WITHIN: CELEBRATION OF A PREGNANCY, have appeared in a junior high school science textbook, a college English textbook, and a guided journal for pregnant women. September 1st 1998 It's no wonder the economy collapsed, if Eva and I use so much merely to stay alive.” Finally!
This garden is yours. I had just watched the movie and liked it so thought I'd try reading the book.I had to think about this book overnight before figuring out what I thought about it. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.After a string of lighter reads, I felt ready and relieved to tackle something with more substance, more darkness, and so I picked up Into the Forest from the library having little to no idea what I was about to get myself into.After a string of lighter reads, I felt ready and relieved to tackle something with more substance, more darkness, and so I picked up Into the Forest from the library having little to no idea what I was about to get myself into.When 9/11 hit, I was reading this book. How and when ‘Into the Forest’ came to be on my to-read list, I can no longer recall. Why? I guess that meant becoming wild forest women. 1,469 reviews Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. A film version starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood is scheduled for release in spring 2015.
This is a beautifully written book about two teenaged sisters who are left to fend for themselves after surviving the death of both parents. a house would have been nice for privacy as a child grows. Am I right? The language was descriptive and precise, but the tone was very depressing. We’d love your help. I picked it off the shelves and decided it sounded like something my sister would like. I actually met Jean Hegland. I'm even horrified to repeat it. Hegland is vague about the reasons--a far-off war, new strains of disease, terrorist attacks on US soil.
but first things first - having a baby under those circumstances? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. It makes me want to throw up and then wash my ears out with soap (Audiobook version).Nell and Eve are precocious teenagers living with their anti-establishment parents in the middle of a redwood forest. I found myself thinking, "Oh my gosh, that could really happen" ... or "Wow, that already IS happening! Strange how rarely this is the case when male novelists throw a rape scene into their novels. STILL TIME, her most recent novel, celebrates the work of William Shakespeare while taking a hopeful look at the harrowing challenges of dementia. It’s revealed in clunky fashion through home movies, that Nell and Eva’s mother died not long ago of an unnamed disease. Stores quickly empty, and desperation and fear set in. This book was SO good until about halfway when the author made it get extremely weird. Now I wonder, was it really worth finishing? No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. And, it contained some of the most offensive material I've ever read or seen. The only reason it’s not 5 stars is because the format this story is told is like writing in a journal and so there are no chapters and I was thrown off at first because I didn’t know when to pause. But after a few seasons of this, the family is left without electricity, internet, telephones, mail, or gas. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. 0553379615 (I'm sneaky that way.) I cried hard two times.
The sequence in no way portends what’s about to come.Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) live with their adoring father, Robert (Callum Keith Rennie), in a striking home in the woods, miles from the nearest town. I learned some interesting survival techniques and think that if we ever have to go survive in our cabin in some type of disaster situation, I just might have some skills. I almost gave it 4 vs. 5 stars though, because I “didn’t like” the end. But, I realize, it’s not that I thought the end was poorly done; it was just difficult for me to agree with aspects of the decisions made. Hegland certainly evokes a distinctive and convincing atmosphere of physical agoraphobia coupled with emotional claustrophobia.
A film version starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood is scheduled for release in spring 2015.
Everything the girls (mainly Nell) learned, she learned on her own, through her own interests, from books, from trial and error, from invention. It was frightening and exciting all at once. Stores quickly empty, and desperation and fear set in. I liked the fact that the sisters were isolated. It is the first fiction book I've read about unschooling and it delivered!
This is a haunting story that will tap on my shoulder each time a phone call is answered by the automated response, "We're sorry, all lines are busy now.
I picked it off the shelves and decided it sounded like something my sister would like. Nell and Eva have a nuanced, evolving dynamic that I found moving and compelling. Take it back.”“I never knew how much we consumed.