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‘Beauty can both shout and whisper, and still it explains nothing.’

‘I walked so light in heavy shoes’

‘On snow and sand and turf, I
see
where love has left a printed trace,
With straining in the world’s
embrace’

Peter’s brother: is this really you Peter? You’re the ripper?
Peter: I’m afraid so our kid
😭😭😭

With 3 hours left I realised this is actually not the audiobook i wanted to listen to 🤣

‘April had met hundreds of huskies since living in
Svalbard, but this dog was still one of the most striking she had ever seen. He had unusually pale markings, almost as if his coat had been dipped in stardust’

‘His fur shining like brushed glass under the light of the moon’

‘Longyearbyen… was a place of final frontiers, unimaginable adventures and one of the few locations left on Earth that still ached with a pure, deep wilderness.’

Reaching a major character plot turn that seems so inconsistent with the way they’ve been presented until this point

The prison story is reminiscent of Shawshank Redemption

‘It wasn’t only books that had a soul’…. Ummm ok. This is an example of some of the nonsensical lines in this book that fail at being profound 😭😭

The characters don’t feel real because of the indistinguishable dialogue and so their ‘words of wisdom’ read like plugged in diatribes which repel rather than inspire. Also some exchanges meander far too long to leave any sort of impression; it all feels quite hazy

I love what this story sets out to convey: books are a metaphor for kindness and empathy in a very unfeeling, profit driven age. But in all honesty, the execution is poor. Each character’s dialogue was barely distinguishable from the other’s

‘Books become imbued with the power of all the people who have encountered them’

‘Irritations heal into arguments’
So arguments are portrayed positively?..

‘evenings stretched their sunburnt arms towards us’

‘The lamplight spills like a moment from the past’

‘I felt each stone’s momentum,
spend itself against the water; then sink’

Forgot how great of a story teller Mr King is. This book has LAYERS.