What We Can Know is so rewarding a dystopian novel that it is hard to review. In 2119 and beyond, the earth is essentially made up of many islands. Physical infrastructure and documents and artifacts have been lost to the tsunamis that tore through the world. Most of what is left from a historical perspective … Continue reading What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
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The Road – Cormac McCarthy (Audio Narrator-Tom Stechschulte)
The Road, to me, was a profound dystopian novel that mesmerized me but -- and this is a big but-- if I had read it in print instead of listened to it, I might not have finished it. The narration of the audio version was wonderful. The prose is slow, and dreamy, a final journey … Continue reading The Road – Cormac McCarthy (Audio Narrator-Tom Stechschulte)
I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger (Audio Narrator: David Allen Baker)
"I Cheerfully Refuse" is a near future dystopian novel that I "read" via an audio version. I keep not reviewing it because I loved it and want to do it justice, but it is a novel that is easy to inadvertently spoil. Generally speaking, there has been some climate related disaster that has resulted in … Continue reading I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger (Audio Narrator: David Allen Baker)
The High House – Jessie Greengrass
The High House starts slowly but stick with it. Greengrass soon builds her story and pulls a variety of threads together in this lovely and sad and believable portrayal of a time when it is dramatically foreseeable that human habitation of earth will end due to climate change. Francesca is Caro's stepmother. She is a … Continue reading The High House – Jessie Greengrass
They Called me Bookworm 