The Bookseller at the End of the World

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Her family had shifted to nearby Naseby several years before, her father working as the town clerk, town butcher, a gold miner in summer and curling master in winter. It is tough not to see the four horsemen imagery in the four invaders, but there are other, more subtle spices at play. Shaw's writing is pragmatic and restrained; her voice is so strong and assured that when grief appears you gasp at its intrusion and your heart stops a second. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake.

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and instead of cowboying up to run into the basement and barricade the door, they push a loveseat into the stairwell. She has earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree in Christian Ministry with a deep academic emphasis in theology. Tremblay does a good job of making Eric, Andrew and Wen a likeable family of characters that you care about as you tentatively flip the pages hoping that no harm will come to either of them. If the plot is going to boil down to two characters trying to sway the other to their belief system, it would have been much better to have those characters having that discussion throughout the book, rather than mostly over the final pages.By using just a single location, with a minimum number of cast members, the producers get to save money. You discover pretty quickly that Tremblay only has a couple ideas with which to prop up The Cabin at the End of the World, and a whole lot of pages are spent with repetitive dialogue as the characters go back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth some more, arguing the same freaking points over and over and over and over and over in laborious fashion. There may not be a mysterious voice telling you to get your hands on this one as soon as you can, and read it as quickly as possible. Instead, Tremblay stuffs and stretches a simple yet awesome idea into a full-length novel that's both padded and repetitive to a frustrating degree.

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Well it doesn’t last long because along comes a stranger named Leonard who begins to chat with young Wen and then before you know it he’s joined by three others with weapons.What a life Ruth has led, her journey on the run to finally settle on Home Street with the books and the birds.

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The idea and concept is really quite interesting, but I feel like it just fell apart after the first 50 pages. The Bible tells us after everything is destroyed, God is going to create a new Heaven and a New Earth ( Revelation 21:1).But the starched uniformity of Navy life was an ill-fit for Shaw, who had always walked her own course. This has probably been my most disappointing read of the year - my rage is fuelled further by the fact that I wasted a precious October read on it!