Tag Archives: The New Wilderness

Diane Cook’s Fan Club: A First Look into The New Wilderness

Posted on March 4, 2021 by 21pjh

As a group, we had collectively been extremely interested in doing a podcast. We were able to come together and discuss about something we are interested in with no pressure and complete freedom regarding what we talked about. We discussed the themes of power and leadership in the novel along … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 Booker Short List novels, Literature Circles aka #litcircles | Tagged Diane Cook, Lit Circles, PBL, The New Wilderness | 3 Comments

A PBL Take: Final Thoughts on Diane Cooke’s New Wilderness

Posted on March 2, 2021 by 21mjk

Cooke’s well-developed prose drew us in from the beginning of the novel. The vivid descriptions of the nature and setting in which the characters live and battle for survival added richness to the plot and demonstrated the severity of the … Continue reading →

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The New Wilderness: Parallels to our Climate Crisis

Posted on February 18, 2021 by 21mjk

Diane Cook’s dystopian novel has trail blazed its own genre that is becoming increasingly relevant in our daily lives: climate change fiction, or cli-fi. With carbon emissions becoming a global problem as well as the diminishing presence of nonrenewable energy, … Continue reading →