Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. Sure, you could re…
The novel follows a young servant girl who escapes from the starvation and disease that are wiping out an unnamed colony in early 17th-century Virginia. Her observations of the natural world around her are simplistic and often off the mark, as everything is totally unfamiliar to her. Yet this girl, who came from an English city, somehow figures out how to navigate the wilderness, find food and avoid capture by either Native Americans or vengeful colonists.
Journalist and naturalist Sy Montgomery has authored more than 30 nonfiction books on an impressive variety of animals, as well as the people who study them. This book is a charming, brief launch into her writings. Here the emphasis is on the very personal impact of 13 animals that have enriched her life, coached her through and out of grief, and given her ballast against the parents who disowned her for making her own life choices.
I so wanted to like this one, but it left me asking “Why?” over and over.
A brilliant director stumbles across a comic strip written years ago by a young man who based the action hero on his uncle. The uncle was a Marine in World War II who used a flamethrower-type weapon to fight the Japanese and who suffers from severe PTSD. The director takes this action hero character to create a version of a Marvel-type movie.
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