Good Morning, Midnight in Around the Year in 52 Books

Oct 08, 2016 Tanya rated it liked it

Shelves: format-audiobook, 2016

By the time I was on tape two of seven, I wondered about continuing the book as it is hard to imagine a satisfying ending. And if the characters haven't really minded their isolation, then why should I mind as the reader? Well, the book does give a sense of emptiness, questioning, human desires---what really matters at the end of life? Or daily and throughout so there are no regrets at the end of life?

For me, this was a 2.5 stars book. Satisfied I read it, but not going to be pushing it on my f ...more

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Feb 09, 2018 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: literary-schmiterary, broken, dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, wintery-snowy

Loved the book, hated the ending. This was building up to be a perfect 10, but it didn't stick the landing.

Recommended for fans of Crow Lake. Maybe. Or maybe I'm irritated enough by the ending to not recommend this for anyone.

Two people who first disconnected from the rest of the world emotionally, and then physically removed themselves from the world (one at a remote arctic observatory, one in a space mission to Jupiter), seem to be two of the only people left when, suddenly, the rest of the wo Loved the book, hated the ending. This was building up to be a perfect 10, but it didn't stick the landing.

Recommended for fans of Crow Lake. Maybe. Or maybe I'm irritated enough by the ending to not recommend this for anyone.

Two people who first disconnected from the rest of the world emotionally, and then physically removed themselves from the world (one at a remote arctic observatory, one in a space mission to Jupiter), seem to be two of the only people left when, suddenly, the rest of the world just ... vanishes. Why? What happened? What will happen next?

The writing is beautiful, but the people are a little bit difficult to like. I was doing okay with them at first, but then (view spoiler) and I found myself recoiling from them. What kind of a person does that???. But these things work themselves out.

Aside from the end of the world, not a lot happens in the story. Usually that makes me antsy, but this book kept my interest. Reading this was like floating on a lake full of words.

He let them float for a few minutes, closing his eyes, listening to the lap of the water against the earth, against the hull, and feeling the heated gaze of the midnight sun on his face. When he opened his eyes, Iris was hanging her legs over the side of the dinghy, the tips of her toes dragging on the lake, leaving brief ruts in the water: there and gone, there and gone. He dipped the blades of the oars beneath the glassy surface and began to row.

The setting is a generation from now, perhaps 40 or 50 years in the future, which is cleverly spelled out during Sully's reminiscences about past space missions Voyager 1 (which, as of 2/6/2018, is still communicating with Earth), and Voyager 3 (which hasn't happened).

I spent some time wondering if NASA really would accept people who have young children for such a long-term space mission. I guess they would.

The ending massively disappointed me. (view spoiler) ...more

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May 16, 2019 Jesse rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019-popsugar

Really cool look at the end of the world seen from two very distant perspectives: the North Pole and deep space. The characters were engaging, and the surprise revelations at the end were superbly done without being trite or formulaic.

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Sep 19, 2016 Ryan Mac rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I just couldn't get into this book...well, half of this book at least. This is a post-apocalyptic book with two points of view: one is an Arctic researcher that decided to stay behind when everyone else was evacuated when something happened (it is never explained) and the crew of a spaceship coming back from an expedition to Jupiter. The book goes through how these two groups deal with the silence/loneliness of being alone. I thought that the crew was much more interesting than the Arctic guy. I ...more

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