Hello, I am currently reading a book for the book project. I have selected the genre of Sci-fi. I am reading "172 Hours On The Moon" which is so far is the most uniquely written book I have ever read. The author Johan Harstad skips around in the book as if his writing style is a kid and the book is the floor when the kid is playing "Lava on the floor". Here is an example of what I mean:
Chapter 1 is taking place in Norway and the third chapter is all the way in Tokyo while the second chapter is about an old man sensing danger (a way the author chose to foreshadow (the summary will be given in a later paragraph)) in a nursing home in neither Norway or Japan. However, I am not complaining about the confusion this book is causing as it just as enjoyable to read as confusing and the feeling relief when finally understanding the logic behind the setting of the chapter is very delightful to receive.
Now I will summarize what I have read so far so that you can look at the story from my perspective. So far Nasa has issued a raffle to send three teenagers 14 - 18 to go to the moon. Kids from all around the world are signing up accept a few kids whom this book is about."172 Hours On The Moon" is written in third person perspective where the narrator is omniscient. This book is about what happens with the three teenagers who won NASA's raffle and went to the moon for 3 days. In the first chapter "Opurtunity" we were introduced to the first character Mia Nomeland. We found that she is a musician who plays for a local band called "Rouge Sqaudron", her age is unidentified however to match the requirements of NASA she should be anywhere from 14 to 18 years. One more thing we found out about here was that she doesn't want to go to the moon. In the second chapter we are introduced to an old man who is now in a nursery. He used to work for NASA at their base in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He is now quite old and very ignorant so ignorant that now whenever he tries to think he starts having headaches. When their caretaker tells the elders about this raffel and shows them the picture of the camp Mr. Himmelfarb recalls something related to the images and senses great danger ahead. In the third chapter a character called Midori who is from Tokyo was presented to us. She is a girl from Tokyo who doesn't want to live a regural Japanese girls life as they are expected to be married at the age of 25 and leave any job or education to take care of the home and the in-laws. Midori wanted to go and settle to New York at around 18 to study and to settle like her older sister who went to Europe. She also never wanted to get married, date and live with friends but never marry.
This was the summary of how far I had read in this book. I found it interesting how the chapters even if were taking place all over the world it still had a order or a connection which was - each chapter was talking about different possibilities of teenagers who don't want to go but possibly end up going any way. Overall if just by reading a few chapters you can judge wether you liked the book or not then I'd say that I like this book, through every chapter I get sucked into the world of 172 Hours On The Moon.
The two words I didn't know were:
Agnostic which meant people who doubted the existence of god:
I am an agnostic.
Staffed: a group made of employees.
The FBI is staffed with athletic and multi-talented people.
Chapter 1 is taking place in Norway and the third chapter is all the way in Tokyo while the second chapter is about an old man sensing danger (a way the author chose to foreshadow (the summary will be given in a later paragraph)) in a nursing home in neither Norway or Japan. However, I am not complaining about the confusion this book is causing as it just as enjoyable to read as confusing and the feeling relief when finally understanding the logic behind the setting of the chapter is very delightful to receive.
Now I will summarize what I have read so far so that you can look at the story from my perspective. So far Nasa has issued a raffle to send three teenagers 14 - 18 to go to the moon. Kids from all around the world are signing up accept a few kids whom this book is about."172 Hours On The Moon" is written in third person perspective where the narrator is omniscient. This book is about what happens with the three teenagers who won NASA's raffle and went to the moon for 3 days. In the first chapter "Opurtunity" we were introduced to the first character Mia Nomeland. We found that she is a musician who plays for a local band called "Rouge Sqaudron", her age is unidentified however to match the requirements of NASA she should be anywhere from 14 to 18 years. One more thing we found out about here was that she doesn't want to go to the moon. In the second chapter we are introduced to an old man who is now in a nursery. He used to work for NASA at their base in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He is now quite old and very ignorant so ignorant that now whenever he tries to think he starts having headaches. When their caretaker tells the elders about this raffel and shows them the picture of the camp Mr. Himmelfarb recalls something related to the images and senses great danger ahead. In the third chapter a character called Midori who is from Tokyo was presented to us. She is a girl from Tokyo who doesn't want to live a regural Japanese girls life as they are expected to be married at the age of 25 and leave any job or education to take care of the home and the in-laws. Midori wanted to go and settle to New York at around 18 to study and to settle like her older sister who went to Europe. She also never wanted to get married, date and live with friends but never marry.
This was the summary of how far I had read in this book. I found it interesting how the chapters even if were taking place all over the world it still had a order or a connection which was - each chapter was talking about different possibilities of teenagers who don't want to go but possibly end up going any way. Overall if just by reading a few chapters you can judge wether you liked the book or not then I'd say that I like this book, through every chapter I get sucked into the world of 172 Hours On The Moon.
The two words I didn't know were:
Agnostic which meant people who doubted the existence of god:
I am an agnostic.
Staffed: a group made of employees.
The FBI is staffed with athletic and multi-talented people.
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ReplyDeleteThe book that you are reading right now sounds very interesting and I would like to read it when you finish. The blog post it self is very specific and nicely done.
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