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A review by lizshayne
Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
It's so hard to rate or talk about a book that you read because it is formative and everyone tells you to read it because of how it shaped them. Those are the kinds of books you need to just trip over and find yourself in rather than set out to read to find out what all the fuss is about.
I liked it and it was so careful and interesting and doing so many things in such a short space of time and ALSO I strongly suspect that if I had not been waiting for it to be careful and interesting and do things I would have loved it.
Still - the story itself and the way Halla slips in and out of dream-time and myth-time and history and plays all of those things together to weave a story about what it means to be human on the outside is so fascinating.
Also it has an A Wrinkle in Time feel to it in the way it approaches the girl's bildungsroman AND in the way that it's not Christian but it's not...not Christian.
I liked it and it was so careful and interesting and doing so many things in such a short space of time and ALSO I strongly suspect that if I had not been waiting for it to be careful and interesting and do things I would have loved it.
Still - the story itself and the way Halla slips in and out of dream-time and myth-time and history and plays all of those things together to weave a story about what it means to be human on the outside is so fascinating.
Also it has an A Wrinkle in Time feel to it in the way it approaches the girl's bildungsroman AND in the way that it's not Christian but it's not...not Christian.