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AUTHOR Phillips, Julia
TITLE Disappearing Earth
DATE READ 05/18/20
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2019/libby e-book / 262 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 95/120;
GROUP READ
TIME/PLACE Present/Kamchatka (Russia)
CHARACTERS Marina mother to Alyona & Sophia
COMMENTS The setting is very interesting -- Kamchatka is a Northeastern Russian peninsula -- it is rather isolated and there are a mix of Main land Russians and the reindeer her ...more
TITLE Disappearing Earth
DATE READ 05/18/20
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2019/libby e-book / 262 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 95/120;
GROUP READ
TIME/PLACE Present/Kamchatka (Russia)
CHARACTERS Marina mother to Alyona & Sophia
COMMENTS The setting is very interesting -- Kamchatka is a Northeastern Russian peninsula -- it is rather isolated and there are a mix of Main land Russians and the reindeer her ...more
Oh. My god. Those last two chapters really take it out of you.
This story is so complex and rich with people weaving in and out of other people’s life stories. Just like in real life, they don’t always know when someone else in the room might be important to their life. There are so many heart breaks in life, big and small; so many mysteries, some answered and some never answered.
I am the most impatient of impatient readers, but I was never impatient with this book. I felt so fully immersed in e ...more
This story is so complex and rich with people weaving in and out of other people’s life stories. Just like in real life, they don’t always know when someone else in the room might be important to their life. There are so many heart breaks in life, big and small; so many mysteries, some answered and some never answered.
I am the most impatient of impatient readers, but I was never impatient with this book. I felt so fully immersed in e ...more
In the opening chapter of this book, two girls are abducted in Kamchatka. Each chapter takes places in a subsequent month and tells the story of another resident of the peninsula. The disappearance of the girls has become a major news story, so every character is somewhat affected by the kidnapping, even those who aren't personally involved.
I really enjoyed this book. The writing is engaging and I really felt for all the characters. The book reads more as a collection of interwoven short storie ...more
I really enjoyed this book. The writing is engaging and I really felt for all the characters. The book reads more as a collection of interwoven short storie ...more
Starting with the abduction of two small girls, this book takes us to Kamchatka, into a world very different and yet so like our own. The book is told in a sort of short story format, each story featuring someone somehow touched or affected by this kidnapping.
I have never read a story like this and was absolutely spellbound the entire time. I highly recommend this absolutely magical journey to the other side of the world.
I have never read a story like this and was absolutely spellbound the entire time. I highly recommend this absolutely magical journey to the other side of the world.
Strange and beautiful, this mystery immerses you in the Siberian peninsula in Soviet Russia and, like the location, is unusual and starkly lovely. I listened on #audio but want to read it agin in print to follow all the separate stories that somehow perfectly wind together in the end. Wow, quite a debut!
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