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Library Check Out

Book Review

by

Kerrin Ross Monahan

"Elizabeth Brown
Preferred a book
To going on a date.

While friends went out
And danced till dawn,
She stayed up reading late."
— The Library by Sarah Stewart

 
 
 
 
 

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (winner of the Mann Booker prize).

Fantasmagorical!

Fact and (possible?) fiction, so expertly woven together that it all
seems true. Richard Parker, nemesis extraordinaire, by his very vigorous
existence, keeps our hero, Pi, alive, thinking and working at top capacity. In
doing so, Pi saves his own sanity and life.

Everyone has their own Richard Parker, who lurks in the shadows, ready to pounce. The question is, how to face up to him in times of crisis. Do we let him devour us, or do we keep him out of our territory by the constant cracking of whip and blasting of whistle?