I often feel like there’s a gigantic emerging world I don’t understand. The water swirling in your glass once filled the puddles where dinosaurs drank.” It is a beautifully head-trippy, relaxing, meditative before-bedtime book. The sea within you is as salty as the ocean. Salt still flows through your veins, your sweat, and your tears. You swam inside the salty sea of your mother’s womb. Like fish deep in the ocean, you called salt water home. So did all other creatures on Planet Earth. Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded long before you were born. The opening lines over the first few pages are: “You are stardust. This is a beautiful picture book that reads like something Neil DeGrasse Tyson would tell your kids if he were over babysitting. Bring back small! This is a book about life’s tiny beautiful things. Maclear writes in this book, “Our economic growth model assumes if you make something small (unless it is boutique and artisanal, and thus financially large or monumentally miniature), it is because you are somehow lacking and frail.” Three cheers for small. A memoir of urban bird-watching? But there’s more here. On its surface, this book may seem strange. I loved this fragile, unique small memoir of discovering urban bird-watching while dealing and wrestling with middle age.
The pace of the book just keeps accelerating, seemingly going faster and faster the deeper you go. for his debut novel! I ordered it right away, and it didn’t disappoint: a fast-paced, mind-bending time-travel book that reminded me of The Martian and Dark Matter. We then lost touch until only a couple of years ago, when we reconnected on Twitter, and I noticed he got a seven-figure book deal. He edited it in the ’90s and graduated before I arrived, but we connected when I became a fan of his Toronto comedy troupe, maybe 15 years back. It was built up over decades by a lot of blood, sweat, and tears from people before me. I used to edit a weekly comedy paper called Golden Words back at Queen’s University.
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