Ship Breaker is a book that I've been meaning to read for the longest time. I bought it either at the beginning of this year or the end of last, and I have only just found the time and motivation to read it. It certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I don't even know what I was expecting, but this w...
My teen book club picked this for this month's selection! Thanks, guys. I'd been wanting to read it but needed the excuse.It's definitely a discussable book - I have bookmarks all through it marking places that illuminate the themes, which are easy to pick out but blend into the story well. And I c...
ShipBreaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi, is the story of Nailer, a young teenager, who is part of a scavenging crew that strips off old ships and oil tankers from their metal which will be sold to big corporations or countries that can afford it. Like everyone on the beach of the Gulf Coast, he works hard ...
I would totally judge this book by its cover. I just love it so much; it is so dark and twisty. I found it completely matched the premise of the book completely.Nailer is part of a ship breaker team who takes apart old ships and sells them for scrap. He is part of the light load team and he has to g...
I hadn't heard of this book until about a week ago. A couple days later, when I picked it up at the library, the librarian told me she enjoyed it and she was reading the sequel.There's a LOT of young-adult material out there, and to be quite honest, a lot of it isn't all that good. Maybe I was spoil...
I can see why this book has won so many awards and why so many people love it. It's part coming-of-age, part adventure, part family drama. It's listed as dystopia/sci-fi which it technically is but I think a much wider audience would enjoy this book. There is nothing "spacey" about it and technol...
Review originally posted here.Why I Read It: I can't remember where I first heard about Bacigalupi, but I do know that I put him on my radar because I had read a handful of positive reviews for his award-winning novel The Wind-Up Girl. I then looked into him further and found out he had a short stor...
This book depicts a future in which scavenging from beached, ruined ships has become big business. Teenagers crawl thru the ducts of the old ships collecting copper wiring for their crews to try to make quota. They live on the beach in conditions worse than poverty. They are in constant danger from...
Nailer is a teenage boy who lives a hard life. His job is to crawl into the dessicated wrecks of ships and haul out the copper wiring for his crew, in the hopes of earning money. In a community of poverty, everyone dreams of the next Lucky Strike - a find of oil, or a chance to make it rich. When su...
The GoodCharacter building. All the main players in this book are fleshed out very well. They don't feel like cardboard cut-outs propped up by cliches, as is often the case when dealing with dystopian fiction. Each person is flawed in their own particular way, making them feel real and believable...
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