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On the one hand, am I even still TRYING to post every other day? Because I missed two posts in a row, and that’s just kind of sad. On the other hand, for the second year in a row my children have been to the graves of all four sets of their great-grandparents on Memorial Day weekend (or thereabouts), and I’m calling that a win. I didn’t grow up visiting graves because no one related to us was buried close by, but I think it’s a nice tradition. We’re trying!
Now. As far as books go, I’m finally getting to my review of Michael Morpurgo’s Listen to the Moon. I picked it up because it seemed like just my cup of tea–a girl rescued from an island off of the coast of Cornwall shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania, a girl who can’t speak but hums to the moon, and the family that takes her in and tries to help her find herself again. But is she German? The rest of the community is ready to condemn her if she is…
Yup. Totally my thing. And I enjoyed both it and the background information provided at the end. I can’t help but be grateful, however, that I listened to it; I feel like the pacing might have been odd if I’d been reading. The book has a few different narrators, and while we gradually learn the girl’s story over the course of the book, the family who rescues her (and, as far as we know, the girl herself) know nothing of her past until more than 300 pages in. The ending just felt–abrupt. Still, I was most definitely drawn into the story; fans of historical fiction should enjoy this one.