October, October

Katya Balen

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ISBN：9781526601933 作者：Katya Balen 出版社：Bloomsbury 出版时间：2020 阅读时间：2024.7.30~8.31 编号：529

和父亲一起生活在森林中的小女孩十月，没想到在十一岁生日这一天，她的世界会变得如此陌生——父亲从树上摔下来被紧急送到医院救治，她只能跟着应该称作母亲的女人离开了森林，去到陌生的城市伦敦。城市的喧闹，学校新环境的不适和被迫与生活在一起的猫头鹰分开，种种的一切都让十月难以接受。但是随着学校中认识的新朋友，接触到的一个新的职业“拾荒者”，刷新了她对于环境的认知，父亲也在逐渐转好，慢慢地她的世界开了一个口子……

这本原版书是猫头鹰书店八月份的共读书，本来按照我阅读的速度，大概10-15天就可以看完，但是刚刚好8月中的时候老妈摔到骨折入了院，我就没有心情看外版书了（比起中文书，外版书即使是童书也是会更加费精力的啦），然后剩下的页数在断断续续地看，8月底的时候又感冒了，人更是不太舒服，不过不想把这本本该这个月完成的书带到下一个月去，所以在31日这天晚上就突击了一下，还是把最后的几十页看完了哈哈，叉腰笑一下~

书摘

  1. I say that to Dad and he says that it's the circle of life and that now the owl will become part of nature again.(p2)

  2. Tonight we howl at the star-clusted sky. We throw our voices and shape them and mix them and mould them like clay. We can stretch our sounds so that they reach the very tops of our tallest trees and clown to the secret-filled earth and so that they tangle in the brambles and skim across the poud because this world is ours and we are alone. Just us.(p7)

  3. October is the best month when you live in the woods and maybe when you don't, but I woundn't know. It's when the trees are starting to shake leaves on to a patchwork floor and the ground is bright as fire.(p17)

  4. He never says my name once when he can say it twice, like it's the words to a song and the sound rises like music.(p24)

  5. I feel small and crushed by the architecture and stamped down by the wall of sound that spills from every angle and demolished by the scents that whip around me.(p43)

  6. Her eyes are huge and round in her head and they are the colour of the darkest liquidy night. They are full moons when she's looking at you and they're crescents when she's sleepy or thinking.(p55)

  7. Scavenging feels like freedom. I am a mudlarker child sprung from history. I am a wild animal skulking and prowling for food. I am a pirate hunting for treasure.(p219)

  8. October, October, sometimes it's a kindness to let something go even when you love it very much.(p227)

  9. You know who your dad is. He knows who you are. You know every moment of your lives together. You know each other's stories and you both know he doesn't need a story to love you so very much in this very real world of ours, and he will never ever let you go or give you up.(p254)

  10. It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole.(p268)

  11. He needs the trees and the call of the birds and the wide open air stretching his lungs.(p274)

  12. It feels like our tiny universe has been sliced open for the first time and the outside is starting to spill in.(p281)

  13. I can be a pair and I can be alone and I complete myself and many other people complete me too.(p287)