Sydney Avey
Dynamic Woman — Changing Times
Book Review: Girl Reading
Girl Reading is a gem I found in Powell’s Book Store in Portland, OR. The first attraction was the profile of a graceful girl in a reading posture. In this short story collection, Katie Ward builds worlds set on a timeline that reaches back into antiquity and forward into a frighteningly foreseeable future. The presence of books is a fragile thread that holds the stories together.
I enjoyed the author’s creativity. What fun she must have had moving through so much cultural history and skidding into a future where technology reigns with the heavy hand that monarchs did, once upon a time. Most interesting to me was the story set in present times, where the beauty of language was stripped away, and the final story set in 2060, where humankind pays a high price for soulless entertainment.
Girl Reading is an engaging book of the sort Geraldine Brooks writes.
Sydney…I’ve been thrown off 2x but am determined.
Love the scope and context of this book.
Thanks for the review.
Have found a good Christian editor, and after a two week bout with flu, I am up and running and writing again.
Missing you dear friend. xoxo
I found that I had to read this book when I wasn’t tired. I had to work to enter each world, and that took focus. I tend to pick books up on a writing break or at the end of the day, and that didn’t cut it with this book. I had to dedicate more time, but it was more enjoyable when I did. It slowed me down!