Remarkably Bright Creatures : A Read with Jenna Pick
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A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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(6 months ago) |
12 Jun, 2024
I do not often recommend the audio of a book over reading the text, but I will with this one. This is so delightful! I chuckled more in the first two hours than I have in dozens of books put together. I love the snarky, "too cool for school" octopus and the narrator doing this part is terrific. The character Marcellus the Octopus more than covers over a few of the REALLY annoying traits in the book: the manbaby who needed a few more smacks when he was a kid and the author for making late-60s, 70 sound like "close to death". (Seriously, authors of a certain age should not be allowed to write about "old" people, particularly women, unless they've met more than a few. I know of a couple dozen who would make her rethink her life, let alone the representation in the book.)
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Challenge:
Read Around North America Challenge
Country:
United States of America
United States of America
Language:
EN
Genre:
Mystery Domestic fiction
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