Rating: 2.0
Harvest
A Novel by Jim Crace
2013 / 224 pages
I feel like I have been transported back in time! It is 1987 and Mrs. Edmunson has assigned us Harvest by Jim Crace for grade 12 novel study. “You must read it so try to enjoy it” she says. “Come on! There are some great things in here! There is violence and witches and even magic mushrooms!”
Start to read. Ah. The harvest is done, there is going to be a celebration.
~~I wonder what we are going to do for Anthony’s birthday next Friday. Veronica wants to take the bus to his house. Better ask my mom~~
Oh. Walter Thirsk, he’s an odd duck. Kind of lame and boring.
~~Do I have any money? Duran Duran AND David Bowie in T.O.??? We are GOING! We ARE GOING!! WE ARE GOING!!!!~~ 
Well, a fire. This should get things going.
~~”No one move a muscle as the dead come home!” Who sings that song? That video scares me. Shriekback! Yep, it was Shreikback!~~
I don’t think they are punishing the right people! Mob mentality? This reminds me of The Lottery.
~~What grade did we read The Lottery in? Grade 8? Miss Bailey? Is that you?!!~~
:( Poor horse! Sad that he was killed. Skipjack? Willowjack? Slap that?
~~Buddha is purring! She is trying to lay down on my book. Kitty cat marching!! SO CUTE when she gets ready to sleep!~~
Mr. Quill, Master Kent. Mr. Quill, Master Kent. Bedlam. Bedlam. Bedlam. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
And then it was over. Back to 2013– I have to mop my kitchen floor this Saturday.
This one really felt like a school assignment that I was forced to read (sorry to steal your line Mike!) and I was day-dreaming the entire time I was reading. I feel like I should have gotten a lot more out of this one but, alas, I did not! The best thing about this book was our fellow BookerMarker, Jen’s awesome graphic diagram in the Why It Will Win series (here).
2 stars (at Literary Hoarders this means: Bad. But not without merit– the merit being that the prose of this absolutely boring book was beautiful ~~sigh~~)
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