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What I learned from Wanting is embodied in a short line in Chapter 1:

'Though he was weaning them off their native
diet of berries and plants and shellfish and
game, and onto flour and sugar and tea, their
...more...]]> 73976066 1134944 5825529 080211900X 9780802119001 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575m/5825529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575s/5825529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5825529.Wanting 3.55 20 Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization, one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life.]]> 2008 5 1 false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 10:25:46 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 10:31:04 -0700 2009
"That which is wanting cannot be numbered." -- Eccle...more...]]> 77467789 1316634 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 4 0 false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 13:45:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 13:53:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77791213 2123931 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 16:54:34 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 17:01:36 -0800 2009 Terror, and hi...more...]]> 39220261 188289 5972436 0001741666554 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5972436.Wanting 5.00 2 2008 5 2 false Wed Dec 03 13:35:39 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 13:35:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 58833896 2266545 5825529 080211900X 9780802119001 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575m/5825529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575s/5825529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5825529.Wanting 3.40 75 Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization, one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life.]]> 2008 2 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 03:37:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 03:41:25 -0700 2009 It was very depressing, but not in a moving way, more a "why am I reading this?" way.
The author's note at the end helped explain his purpose but still I found it hard going and almost put it aside.
Not a style I enjoy although we...more...]]> 41633100 1498406 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 2 0 false Fri Jan 02 13:35:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 13:42:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42749351 1897066 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 2 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 20:46:16 -0800 2009 Wed May 20 15:10:23 -0700 2009
The book opens in 1839 in an Aboriginal community at Flinders Island that is ravage...more...]]> 80744760 1397516 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 0 false Sun Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 05:57:50 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 02:35:49 -0800 2009 Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with Wanting. It was mildly interesting, and though written well, something about...more...]]> 57475594 150311 6493714 1554685109 9781554685103 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493714-wanting 3.75 4 2008 4 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 05:44:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:28:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 62042424 950099 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 0 false Fri Jul 03 13:09:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:24:06 -0700 2009 61497066 975391 5825529 080211900X 9780802119001 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575m/5825529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575s/5825529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5825529.Wanting 3.40 75 Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization, one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life.]]> 2008 4 0 false Wed Jul 22 14:53:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 08:19:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 14:53:22 -0700 2009
It's not a long book, b...more...]]> 69467907 926311 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:47:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:54:42 -0700 2009 81774728 565487 5825529 080211900X 9780802119001 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575m/5825529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575s/5825529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5825529.Wanting 3.40 75 Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization, one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life.]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Dec 22 12:06:14 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 22 12:10:58 -0800 2009 43673826 388976 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 0 false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 02:28:59 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 02:30:32 -0800 2009 73186339 1060084 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 3 1 false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:27:15 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:27:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57228946 1415047 5825529 080211900X 9780802119001 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575m/5825529.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240101575s/5825529.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5825529.Wanting 3.40 75 Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.

It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization, one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own life.]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon May 25 01:49:43 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 03 10:18:44 -0800 2009 New Yorker: "The narrative scope is ambitious; we move between the story of a young Aboriginal woman wrenched from her family by the broody and bored wife of the British governor, and an account of Charles Dickens’s extramarital affairs. The connection between the two is slight (Dickens co-wr...more...]]> 72265198 1652517 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 5 2 false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:19:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:21:55 -0700 2009 64843143 1339036 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 1 0 false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:44:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:45:07 -0700 2009 80423060 2342584 5121221 1741666554 9781741666557 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580m/5121221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246034580s/5121221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5121221.Wanting 3.40 75 2008 4 0 false Wed Dec 09 10:53:10 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 10:54:21 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6493714