Title: The Starless Sea
Author: Erin Morgenstern
Pages: 491
Finished: March 29, 2020
First Sentence: There is a pirate in the basement.
Summary: Zachary Ezra Rawlins finds a lost book in his University Library. It's an interesting enough read, so he takes it home, only to find himself in existential crisis when one of the stories ends up being about him. How can that be? He begins to research the book and finds himself on a journey to the Starless Sea weaving in and out of stories, myths, and Time.
Thoughts: I recall reading The Night Circus while pumping in the supply closet at work 4 years ago. It had been a surreal time. The birth had been traumatic due to some serious complications. Maternity Leave was three months of unpaid time at home in the middle of summer. And then I was back at work hoping to pump out enough milk to feed my baby when I was at work. The Night Circus really fit in with the surreal feelings through all of this.
It seems fitting that I read The Starless Sea a month before my second child is born while sheltered at home during a worldwide pandemic. It's another incredibly surreal experience that I don't know how to explain. And the book was just the type of book to fit with it.
This is a book where you really have to just let it take you and trust you'll get where you're going. You think you know what's happening... but you're wrong.
This is a book about stories. About books, and libraries. About fantastical worlds and beginnings and endings. Of myths and tropes. Of language.
This book stole my breath away. It's rare for me to get in a post-book hangover, but this was one of those times. I spent my entire afternoon in a bit of a funk after finishing it.
I wish I could write more coherently about it. Perhaps I'll be able to later. But mostly, this is a book that I know will have to be read again (as will the Night Circus) and digested.
Counts for challenges Beat the Backlist, Virtual Mount to be Read, and Library Love
It seems fitting that I read The Starless Sea a month before my second child is born while sheltered at home during a worldwide pandemic. It's another incredibly surreal experience that I don't know how to explain. And the book was just the type of book to fit with it.
This is a book where you really have to just let it take you and trust you'll get where you're going. You think you know what's happening... but you're wrong.
This is a book about stories. About books, and libraries. About fantastical worlds and beginnings and endings. Of myths and tropes. Of language.
This book stole my breath away. It's rare for me to get in a post-book hangover, but this was one of those times. I spent my entire afternoon in a bit of a funk after finishing it.
I wish I could write more coherently about it. Perhaps I'll be able to later. But mostly, this is a book that I know will have to be read again (as will the Night Circus) and digested.
Counts for challenges Beat the Backlist, Virtual Mount to be Read, and Library Love
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