The Tidal Zone | 
Another Moss book, taking a break from Moby Dick ☺️☺️😝
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Fantastic read. How do you deal with a serious health issue for your child?
pickFantastic read. How do you deal with a serious health issue for your child?
pickI loved this. A stay at home dad‘s life is turned around overnight when his oldest daughter nearly dies and we see the impact it has on the family, it‘s also a sort of ‘state of the nation‘ novel and I saw a lot in it about how fragile English middle class life is. The criticism I‘ve seen of the family is fair - they do mean about money when they aren‘t bad off etc - but I thought it was nuanced and very accurate about class
Today i took my daughter to an open day at Coventry uni where i picked up the bookmark featured + was reminded of this wonderful book which told the story of how the cathedral was rebuilt so i thought I'd post some photos and i'd like now to reread it next year. Religion is always a difficult subject so whilst a long ago lapsed Catholic the new cathedral is an incredible building that gave pause for reflection. Id definitely recommend visiting.
Congratulations @BarbaraBB !!
I want more people to discover the brilliant Sarah Moss and her last novel, The Tidal Zone. Her new one is out in October and I'm very excited!!
Thanks for the #spotlightgiveaway
Happy Friday! I started this last night and I‘m absolutely in love in with the writing style (and story).
This was an interesting insight to a parent‘s thoughts and feelings when a child develops a serious medical condition. I love the way we see this through the father‘s eyes-not the mothers. And I loved the sections about Coventry Cathedral. Thank goodness for Google! What a remarkably beautiful church.
panSo I finally managed to force myself to finish this book. I‘m not usually a skimmer, but by the last 50 pages I just couldn‘t make myself read the long meandering descriptions of things I didn‘t care much about. Almost nothing happened in this book, and it was not made up for by interesting characters. Plus there‘s only so many times I can put up with someone complaining about their tiny house while also having a GP‘s earnings in the family.
I‘m really struggling to motivate myself to pick this up and carry on reading the last couple of days... I really thought I would love it. But I‘m not giving up yet
I‘m having the perfect lazy Sunday curled up with a new book, sleepy kittens and it‘s snowing outside ❄️
pickAdam is a stay at home dad who takes care of his daughters while his wive is working full time as a doctor. One day daughter Mirjam nearly dies. The impact on the family is enormous; suddenly Adam has to live with the mortality of his children. Ordinary life has become surviving each day. Sarah Moss knows how to write about parenthood and despite the serious subject, she weaves in a lot of humor, picturing England in a funny and ironical way.
No need to go out fortunately ❄️❄️❄️. I think i‘ll just look at the snow from my couch and start this one!
The 2021 uk city of culture is Coventry - I've only been once for a friends wedding in the 80's but visited the cathedral and remember it was beautiful so i thought id repost about one of my books of the year which was set in Coventry + referenced the project to rebuild after the ww2 devastation. Congrats to the city, i hope to visit again and its a gr8 way to celebrate culture + i was lucky to see a gr8 performance in Hull this yr a city i love.
And my book festival purchases for #signedsunday 😍🙌📚📚
pickI love the way she writes about family - the stresses and anxieties; the little triumphs and bright moments of coming together. There were so many familiar details about the marriage, at times I felt like she'd been spying on us. I'm not sure the historical writing about churches adds much, but it wasn't too distracting. And Miriam often spoke like someone twice her age, although we accepted that about Gilmore Girls, so I'll let that go.
It's the first day of the Edinburgh Book Festival. There's been a lot of rain but I've seen my first event on a favourite book of last year (tagged) and a fascinating new book called the Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick. Such amazing women! #edbookfest
Sarah Moss does books #familyaffairs like no other. And, yes, I have only read two of her books, but those two were wonderful. Moss writes about the hard part of being a patent and being part of a less than perfect family, and she does it with grace and a simple beauty which take my breath away 👌
#AugustGrrrl
The past has so much yet to teach us.
Sorry for the blurry pic - I'm on a train!
I was having a terrible lunch hour on Friday when it suddenly struck me: "I don't have to be here." I stood and excused myself, and hustled my butt over to Waterstones in Bloomsbury. I had about five minutes to choose a book or risk being late back to work. It wasn't nearly enough time. In the end I grabbed something off the staff picks table. I'm so glad I did. Only 45 pages in and I can already tell this will be a firm favourite.
Some of my favourite (relatively) #minimalistcovers - I love how striking they are in all their simplicity 👌
#JubilantJuly
pickI borrowed this book from the library after hearing Sarah Moss talk about it at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing conference in Bristol last month and really enjoyed it. Both a love letter to the NHS and a reflection on how we live with the reality of our mortality and that of our loved ones. I loved the way Moss tied in the story of the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral: moving on with the new whilst not forgetting or hiding the ruins of the past.
In a real reading rut at the moment. Hoping this will drag me out of it. Page seven and it's looking promising.
This book deals with a father and his thoughts and actions after his daughter stops breathing for some minutes, and nobody knows why. It is beautifully written, and the relationships are portrayed with an honesty and simplicity which I haven't seen in many other books.
#Fathers #JuneBookBugs
#riotgrams #howyouread #howiread reading on the back porch this morning before the lawn mowing begins in the neighborhood
#maybookflowers 🌸 #eyesoncovers thanks to @ScorpioBookDreams I can take part in today's prompt ❤️📚👁👁
@DeborahSmall this was the book I received 2 copies of.
pickTidal Zone started off beautifully but after about 70% of the book I started feeling underwhelmed and unsatisfied. It was hard to relate to the historic narrative within the novel, but I found myself getting attached to Adam, the stay at home dad who's also our narrator.I also loved heartbreaking aspect of parenthood. I'd recommend this just on the basis of the stay at home dad aspect, which I think is heavily under-represented in fiction.
Just picked this up! Has anyone read it? I'm on page 10 and it's so poetic and intense so far ❤️ Very emotionally charged, but in a good way 🤓 #currentread
pickI enjoyed this story about how a middle class family come to terms with the 15 year old daughters anphylactic attack. The narrator is adam a house husband and there are three different threads to the book including the family story, the rebuilding of Coventry cathedral post ww2, and paternal grandfather's history. One of those books you want to talk about and great writing.
An opening page that has drawn me instantly into the story. im looking forward (if you can say that about a book about a father dealing with his teenage daughters near death) to this read.
Here is my library haul- i went to pick up the resrved thriller ' behind her eyes' but added the longlisted for wellcome prize book above, mothering Sunday, and Maggie o'farrell- we actually have a signed copy of this after wife and i saw her talking to simon (from the readers) in Manchester in September - she is very engaging - but I don't want to spoil the signed copy
I love coming home to book mail!! Excited to read these after hearing so much about them in 2016 favorite book videos.
New books thanks to book depository and #booktube may take a while to get here (about a month) but worth the wait. Now to finish #diversathon so I can jump into them.
Some books from my shelves with a #bookwithinabook.
I really loved The Tidal Zone. It is told from a father's perspective and changes between the father writing a book about Coventry Cathedral and the father trying to deal with his daughter almost dying. It was such a quiet and powerful read, and I would recommend it ti everyone! 👍
#readJanuary
A little late, but here's my #bookface ! #readjanuary
Sarah Moss has such a talent for minutely researched work. This story of a family coping with the unexplained collapse of a daughter is brilliantly interwoven with the narrator's (father) research into the history and reconstruction of Coventry cathedral. One of the finest books I've read all year. I immediately bought 2 books on the cathedral and everything Sarah Moss has ever written #recommendsday
pickFab book! Great to have the story told from a fathers perspective and the worries parents face. The juxtaposition of a fragile human life against the stone and bricks of a restored cathedral was a nice angle too. Highly recommend.
pickLoved this to death. Such a quiet, yet powerful, story about the freak occurences in life that can leave you scrambling, and how we still manage to build ourselves up when our whole life changes forever. Gorgeous writing, funny, REAL characters that you get to know intimately. Read this if you want to feel everything from sadness and despair to hope and happiness.
Beautiful poetic writing. Sarah Moss writes the way I would like to (but rarely can). The imagery is so perfect and psychologically accurate for a man who is afraid for his daughter's life.
Woke up, started reading (it's a hard life, being on staycation!). According to the The (London) Times: 'Sarah Moss is one of our country's most underrated writers... If there is one author you take a chance on this year, let it be her - it's time, and money, well spent'. I'm convinced already & only got to p.18!
so-soIt pains me not to give this book a thumbs up - Moss is one of my favourite authors and I have loved everything she has ever written. But... This one didn't quite work for me. Parts of it were brilliant and engaging but I felt that there was too much going on.
