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The story takes the reader through a journey from a winter camp occupied by a tribe during a time around 30,000 years ago, to the camp where many tribes meet for the short summer period. There are encounters with wildlife, some of which is definitely food, with danger, and with a mysterious stranger along the way. The Village of Indian Head Park in conjunction with the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways (DoTH), has initiated a Preliminary Engineering and Environmental (Phase I) Study for 2.3 miles of Wolf Road from 79th Street to Plainfield Road. Wolf Road is mostly a two lane roadway under Cook County DoTH jurisdiction that primarily falls within the Villages of Indian Head Park and Burr Ridge. The City of Countryside and Village of Willow Springs are also adjacent to the corridor. Monsters ain’t real ’cept in kids’ imaginations, under the beds, in the closets. We live in a world a’ men and there ain’t no good come out of tellin’ them they monsters. Makes ’em think they ain't done nothing' wrong, that it's their nature and they can’t do nothin’ to change that. Callin’ ’em a monster makes ’em somethin’ different from the rest of us, but they ain’t. They just men, flesh and bone and blood. Bad’uns, truth, but men all the same…Nothin’ a man can do can make him stop bein’ a man.” What I most disliked about the storytelling was its excessive foreshadowing. The main character narrator continually talked about what was going to happen, but not in a forthcoming way. I didn’t need being told in a cryptic way that some things (likely bad) were going to happen, and I didn’t like that way of moving along the story, yet somehow I enjoyed it anyway. But truthfully, the constant foreshadowing about drove me nuts. I was fine with the book starting with a scene near the end, but when I got to the scene introduced at the start of the book I didn’t think the reader needed such a long passage of identical words. The story and its characters were so compelling though that I forgave all of this, but I think the book would have been better without most of it.
Tuuli is a prehistoric girl, travelling with her tribe through the seasons - making camp, hunting for food and protecting themselves against the many hazards that the climate throws at them. Tuuli knows there's a bigger world out there, and when she spots a strange boy lurking outside their camp, she realises that he might hold the adventure she is looking for.
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The greatest adventure of all begins here, in the epic new prehistoric children's novel from bestselling author, academic and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts. Coffee house Caffè Nero has announced the 16-strong shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, recognising the outstanding books of the past 12... One day after Elka has lived with him for years she finds out that the man she calls Daddy is a serial killer. She takes off into the woods with just a knife to escape from him. Her parents had gone North when Elka was a baby to get rich from a gold rush. She heads toward North to find them. Told in the first person the book is completely inside Elka's head. You might think that sounds boring but this book is anything but that. I don’t even know what to say about this one. I can tell you it’s different from anything you’ve read and the only reason it’s getting 4.5 Stars instead of 5 is because I didn’t read it during the winter so I couldn’t quite get as cold and miserable as I should have.
Memories ain’t no one’s friend. They show you all the good things you had, all the good things you lost, and don’t let you forget all the bad shit in between The topography of British Columbia has changed. Wars have created a post-apocalyptic wilderness demanding a new set of survival skills.
It’s obvious how much research has gone into this book. As I tagged along with Tuuli and her talo while they travelled through the seasons, I saw how they lived and was able to get to know them through their beliefs and customs. While I learned a lot reading this book, my emotions never really engaged. One a' them rules is don't go trusting another man's path...People do it, they do what their mommies and daddies did, they make them same mistakes, they have them same joys and hurts, they just repeating. Trees don't grow exactly where their momma is; ain't no room...I weren't following no one up through life.” What we know about prehistory sets the frame of the story. But humans were a marginal species at the time and there is very little surviving evidence of their lives. There is so much we don't know that inevitably there are many gaps that Professor Roberts fills in with her imagination. I appreciated that everything was resolved to my satisfaction but that some things were left open ended and not too, too neatly wrapped up. What saddened me most, even though I think it���s weird that I care so much is not even the facts around Elka finding her parents, which was not unanticipated, but that neither she nor the reader would ever know her true given name. I wanted to know!
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