A Tale for the Time Being in Pick-a-Shelf

Sep 11, 2021 Booknblues rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: canada, contemporary-fiction, japan, magical-realism, literary-fiction, made-me-cry

Ruth Ozeki, an author who lives on Cortes Island of Canada on the Desolation Sound crafts a story of a Japanese school girl named Nao, pronounced now and an author named Ruth who lives with her husband, Oliver on Cortes Island.

Ruth and Nao are connected by Nao's diary which Ruth found along the shoreline, shortly after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Now, there are all kinds of twists and turns and timeshifts and quantum physics in this book. I myself got caught up in it reading it on 9/11/2 ...more

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Mar 21, 2014 Nancy rated it liked it

Shelves: books-read-in-2014

Interesting tale told from the journal of a young girl in Japan. A writer in British Colombia found the journal in a plastic bag near the Pacific shore by her home. I could tell at the start that the author loved her characters. In fact I assume the author is actually the author. I liked that she blurred the lines between reader and writer very well; like an infinity mirror. She expounded quite a bit on Zen philosophy and Quantum theories which I still don't understand or really want to. She was ...more

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Jul 02, 2020 Rachel rated it liked it

This took me a long time to read. I just had trouble sticking with it. I finally listened to about the last half on audiobook at increased speed.

Another reviewer said that they were hooked right up until a point fairly late in the book. I would say I was the opposite. I was depressed and a bit bored by the first half and then things got really interesting towards the end.

My three stars probably says a lot about me and what I like to read. I don’t have much tolerance for character in a story who ...more

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