The Bookseller at the End of the World

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The Bookseller at the End of the World

The Bookseller at the End of the World

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Ruth Shaw at home in Manapōuri. Behind her is a photo of Breaksea Girl, the boat she and Lance ran environmental tours from for 16 years. Shaw describes a customer she had earlier in the day. The man had grudgingly appeared in the Wee Bookshop with his wife more than two years ago, and she sent him away with a copy of John Hall-Jones’ Goldfields of Otago: An Illustrated History.

Underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful sense of humour.After eight months of mostly cheerful thumbs-ups, Evening Book Club has finally tasted the distinct pleasure of the universal, full-throated pan. Kleeman’s sort-of mystery, set in a fire-ravaged Los Angeles where synthetic WAT-R flows from every tap, barely topped 50 out of a 100 in our scores, with many folks happy to go quite a bit lower. This made for a spirited discussion indeed—there’s nothing quite like the glee of sharpening your knives alongside fellow indignant readers. The Big Sleep , by Raymond Chandler (1939). Detective Philip Marlowe, hero of this genre-defining masterpiece, knows how to face an uncertain future: “I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.” They loaded the whiskey, clothing, food, boat gear and fuel into their runabout, and then they actually shook our hands and politely thanked us,” Shaw tells the Guardian. Rated 9/10 This was almost a 10 for me. Why? Ruth is a NZ author who writes frankly about her life growing up in NZ, the struggles she faced, physically and mentally, interlaced with anecdotes relating to a few of the folk she meets at her Bookshop at the End of the World. A bittersweet tale and one can only wonder what she didn't write about in her life. She travelled (perhaps to escape), and met, worked and lived in an array of places with an array of folks both good and bad. Before long, they were engaged, the church booked, the invitations printed, the dress fitted, and their rings made from gold Ruth’s father had mined in Central Otago.

The fascination with the end time runs through history. Ever since humans began speculating about their origins they have probably been wondering about the ultimate destiny of the world. Even before the time of the early Christians, who expected a spectacular Judgement Day at any moment, the ancient Romans had their own end-time scares.Over the last 2000 years prophets have come, and gone, with regularity. Around 1000 AD and also prior to the recent millennium switch, anticipation has beenheightened. The first of January2000 had its own distinctive variation on the theme when many feared that the world’s computer systems would crash simultaneously. Lance was willing to convert to Catholicism to marry Ruth, but baulked at the requirement they must bring up their children as Catholics. To his mind, their children should be free to choose for themselves, and it was a step too far. On a day when rain had turned the Brisbane cemetery to a swamp, she knelt and pulled his cross with its small brass plaque, from the ground, clutching it close as she walked away. When I looked at the sci-fi collection on my bookshelves before compiling this list, I was surprised by how many of Niven’s books I had. I’d also forgotten what classics s such as Ringworld and The Mote in God’s Eye were. Niven is a master of hard sci-fi and together with Pournelle (another US genius), he wrote this apocalyptic thriller in 1977. A giant comet hits the Earth, creating collossal earthquakes, giant tsunamis and ultimately the beginning of a new ice age. A handful of humans struggle to survive.This 1962 novel depicts a postapocalyptic future in which global warming has rendered much of planet uninhabitable. In stark contrast to Station Eleven, it is a dark and depressing tale of survivors forced to reinvent their ethical and moral codes when civilisation collapses. It is widely regarded as one of the first climate-change fiction texts.



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