Ann Ewan
I thought this book would be interesting, and I did enjoy the first story, but it's very episodic and doesn't spend enough time with characters you can get to like. One character that I liked a lot was suddenly 15 years older! I read the whole book but I didn't really enjoy it or get as much out of it as I hoped.
I wasn't sure what to expect, but I loved this book! It was sensitive, gentle, and sweet, and besides the charming Wayne/Annabel, we get to know Treadway, who is almost part of the land he grew up in. Fascinating depiction of an intersex child trying to fit in and an isolated Labrador community that lives by trapping and hunting.
Rockets versus Gravity is a book of short stories loosely tied together by a series of wedding rings, lost and found. As always, Richard Scarsbrook creates a bunch of quirky characters, including Stan and Sheila, the unhappy couple whose rings connect the stories, and teenage Clementine, whose name, like everything else in her life, is recycled. My favourite character was James, the wannabe rock star who always has the soundtrack of his life playing in his head.
The book is a quick read and I enjoyed it more on the second reading than I did on the first, understanding who the characters were and knowing how they would be connected. Some stories are hilarious and some are terribly sad, and, as in real life, not everything is resolved.
This book is a great intro to linguistics for non-linguists. It makes language theory both fascinating and fun!
I have a story in this book, so I don't think I should review it. Just wanted to say that Heather Wood was the editor, not Ed Greenwood.
My favourite story was ‘The Black Dog' by Sam Agro.