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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Portland, Oregon is destroyed by a massive earthquake, catching Annie by surprise while obliviously shopping for a crib at Ikea. Everything comes crashing down and the heavily 9-months‘ pregnant Annie, escaping the rubble by the skin of her teeth, starts walking to her husband‘s work. She‘s accompanied, at time, by the Ikea worker who saved her life. This is the story of her walk through the destroyed city while talking to Bean, the baby she‘s ⬇️

Texreader carrying. Annie tells Bean about her love for her husband. We also learn about her dissatisfaction with herself and her original horrible attitude about being pregnant. This is the story of her changing relationship with her husband and Bean while she walks. From that point of view, it‘s an excellent story. However, if you‘re reading a story about a pregnant woman‘s attempt to find her husband during an apocalypse, it‘s woefully incomplete. ⬇️ (edited) 6d
Texreader The reader gets to decide whether the author/main character achieved her objective. And truthfully I don‘t know which point of view matters the most to me. That leaves me somewhere between a good book and a so-so book. #CampLitsy 6d
BarbaraBB It didn‘t match King of Ashes for you I think! 6d
Texreader @BarbaraBB You are correct! 😉 6d
Bette It‘s been a while, but I remember that after having taken her journey being unsatisfied with the end. 5d
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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Funny, not funny. 😬 #campLitsy

Bookwormjillk Yup. Sigh. 2w
AnnCrystal
🥺 Oh yikes...🧐🤔😵‍💫😶‍🌫️...
1w
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Rachiiebookdragon
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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An interesting novella

Read for a reading challenge

3.75/5

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Kshakal
Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙🤍💙 2w
Eggs Love this one💙🩵💙 1w
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JoeMo
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I read this as a result of my trip to Nola. This book breaks down everything that went down at Memorial Hospital during Katrina and the flooding afterwards. This book covers what occurred but also many different points of view as the patients, staff, and families are left stranded with things growing more desperate by the hour. The book‘s second half follows the investigation into what occurred there and the resulting legal ramifications.

JoeMo At the center of this story are deep moral dilemmas. The author presented many different points of view but remained objective throughout. What surprised me was how strongly I felt in regard to the moral dilemma and what had transpired at the hospital. Reading The Great Deluge followed by this title was a potent 1-2 combination of the tragedy. The former provided an eerie summary of how Memorial was left when it was abandoned. (edited) 2w
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Soscha
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You can see Richard Lasher‘s car & the dirt bike he was able to flee the approaching ash cloud on.

I was alive when St Helen‘s happened but was too young & too far away from WA to remember. I wish the book would have gone right to covering the event & not the years before background & its players.

I do remember the elderly man that refused to heed warnings & condemned 16 cats to eruption death. You also get perished dogs & horses. Humans too. 💧

Soscha I‘m sorry if that sounds cold. It was all bad but damn people don‘t drag your companion animals into your grand mistakes. The death toll discussions were terrifying. 2w
CatLass007 I don‘t think it sounds cold. It sounds perfectly reasonable to me. 2w
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Texreader
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Library hold finally came in. Starting it today. #camplitsy

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JoeMo
Great Deluge | Douglas Brinkley
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This book looked at the preparation (or lack thereof) and response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the gulf states. The focus is placed on New Orleans where things went completely off the rails. With the storm having been nearly twenty years ago, I had forgotten a number of the details or never knew them as an outsider. The poor decision-making, lack of planning, and inadequate response made for a maddening listen.

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Roary47
Tilt | Emma Pattee
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4✨ Following a pregnant woman to a store to get the crib she should have got a long time ago it seems like any other day. However, a massive earthquake causes disaster to strike her town. The only thought on her mind is to survive and find her loved one‘s. I enjoyed this book and the consistent flow it had. While the ending was good I would have liked an epilogue of what happened after that last moment.

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