With all the excitement surrounding the new movie coming out, I wanted to read A Wrinkle in Time again. I say again, because I was nearly convinced I read it as a child. Somehow, I did not! I’m not sure how that happened, because this is right up my alley. I listened to the audiobook in the car, and it went so quickly! I loved it by the way. I already put holds on the rest of the books in the Time Quintet, so look […]
What is now? What is the story of now/Nao?
For the Time Being has two parallel narratives: Nao is a teenager in Japan, writing a journal that she states is her suicide note; and Ruth, a writer in an island off British Columbia, who has found Nao’s journal, along with some letters and other artifacts, washed ashore. As Ruth reads Nao’s diary, we find out Nao’s story: she lived most of her childhood in Sunnyvale, California while her father worked at a dotcom, and upon returning to Japan, she did not fit in. Her classmates […]