Well Read #4: The Shipping News
The Shipping News totally seems like a book club kind of book (I believe the proper term is "literary fiction.") I am not in a book club and it's not the kind of book I'm normally drawn to, but it's good to expand one's horizons. It's about a guy named Quoyle who moves to Middle-of-Nowhere, Newfoundland, where his family are legendary lunatics, and joins the staff of the local paper writing about car wrecks and ships.
But mostly it's a book about Newfoundland - boats and fish and winter storms. And I do love a book where Place matters instead of being background scenery.
Also, there are a lot of sentence fragments. I am not a stickler about this as a general rule, but too many is distracting. There were times I found myself scanning the page in search of a subject. Or a verb.
As a random bit of awesomeness, there is a really corny joke about knitting. While I would like to think my sense of humour is more clever and sophisticated, I totally laughed.
But mostly it's a book about Newfoundland - boats and fish and winter storms. And I do love a book where Place matters instead of being background scenery.
Also, there are a lot of sentence fragments. I am not a stickler about this as a general rule, but too many is distracting. There were times I found myself scanning the page in search of a subject. Or a verb.
As a random bit of awesomeness, there is a really corny joke about knitting. While I would like to think my sense of humour is more clever and sophisticated, I totally laughed.