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Where's the Starfish?

Barroux

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Barroux tackles ocean pollution in the stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed Where's the...

Go Giants

Nick Laird

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To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood...

ClareR (5849 KP) rated The Stranding in Books

Jul 27, 2022

The Stranding

Kate Sawyer | 2022 | Contemporary, Dystopia, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.0

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I have serious feelings about this book, and I’ll start by saying that I would give this ALL the stars if I could.

Ruth tries to ignore the bad news going on in the world. She goes to work, moves in with her boyfriend, realises he’s not who she thought he was, has a short-lived affair, ends it with the boyfriend and decides to go travelling.

So Ruth is on a New Zealand beach with a complete stranger when the worst thing that could happen, does happen. They hide inside the carcass of a recently dead whale, and when they re-emerge onto the beach, everything is changed.

This is told in alternate chapters of before and after, and shows the stark difference between the two times. It also shows what’s really important in a life: the human drive to survive and love.

Honestly, I’m so desperate for other people to read this, that I don’t want to give too much away, so that you don’t lose that element of surprise and the joy tinged with sadness when you turn each page. It really did make me think about what’s important in my own life.

The Stranding was just an absolute pleasure to read.

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Survive: Escape from Atlantis! in Tabletop Games

Apr 10, 2018

Survive: Escape from Atlantis!

1982 | Adventure, Animals, Bluff, Nautical

7.5

(11 Ratings)

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Sea Monsters (5 more)

Whales that sink boats

Sharks that eat swimmers

Sending monster to do your bidding

getting your people to safety

A newer version was published so everyone has access to it.

The Island is sinking and the ocean is filled with terrors, what a fun time.

I adored this game as a kid, nothing better than sending a shark to eat your sister and making the sounds from the movie JAWS, or sending a whale to sink her boat and maybe yelling "Moby Dick gets his revenge" before you actually know what you are talking about, because you know of the book but haven't read it yet....

This is a great game, the only way to improve it would be to make it 6 players, and add more versions of the creatures, which I've heard the new version does add squids, dolphins and more players. Or as I would call them, Flipper and The Kraken.

I own the old version. which was missing pieces and I got another copy that was missing pieces and created a frankenstein of parts to make the whole. I've seen people playing it online and it hits me in my nostalgic place. I'd love to break this out again and play.

Oh the pictures I would paint in my head as a kid.

The heroic triumph of getting my people to safety.