Blue sky, green trees.

I liked it well enough, but my enthusiasm for computer history petered out and I just don't feel like continuing. Glad I read what I did, it was interesting, but I'm in the mood for a novel and so it's time to move on.

Fantastic read, absolutely knocked my socks off. The portion that is told from the point of view of Edith was really intense, it felt like I was holding my breath for the whole chapter. I love what the author did with the characters, the plot, the writing, every bit of it worked for me. Highly recommend.

Interesting little interlude of a book. I think I'll enjoy mulling it over more than I did actually reading it. Not a bad trade, the book was short and time is long.

Interesting little interlude of a book. I think I'll enjoy mulling it over more than I did actually reading it. Not a bad trade, the book was short and time is long.

This book does a fantastic job of giving us an authentic 9 year old narrator, who talks and sees the world as a 9 year old. So often authors write "precocious" children, and not only are these characters insufferable, the author comes off as a bad writer because it reads as if they just took an adult character and shrunk it to child-size and called it a day. This author gets the voice 100% right, and it's a delight. The story itself I really loved, which sounds odd given the grim topic but you know what I mean. It grabbed me from the first pages and kept me hooked. Highly recommend, for everyone!

Fantastic book. I thought the parts from Doc's perspective while he was having his stroke were really well done, very intense, although sometimes hard to follow (I think that was the point, though). I also thought Anna's response was very realistic, feeling trapped in the situation and cut off and overwhelmed. She's also a bit of an odd duck herself, what with often not understanding context or appropriate responses, but I liked it, she was interesting.

I don't like poetry but I loved this book.

I don't like poetry but I loved this book.

Amazing. Wonderful. Made me cry. I loved it. Highly recommend.

Based on the hype and a glowing recommendation from a dear friend, I had high hopes for this book. Instead it fell flat for me. It seems that I was supposed to be very moved by the author's personal struggles, but they weren't talked about in enough depth, or often enough, or with too little emotion. These struggles just weren't interesting and frankly didn't feel like they belonged in what was clearly a book about David Starr Jordan. Overall, the book was flat and a little dull.

This would have been better as a short story.

I read it in one sitting, starting after dinner and going past midnight. I couldn't put it down!

The stream of consciousness style is usually a deal-breaker for me, but I stuck it out with this book and I'm glad I did. I don't know of any other books that addresses the topic of what happens to former colonists when they are violently expelled and return to the motherland. It was quite interesting, didn't pull punches, and took only one easy out. In all a good read, would recommend.