

Bridge to Bat City
Author: Ernest Cline
Narrator: Felicia Day
Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: 04/09/2024
Author: Ernest Cline
Narrator: Felicia Day
Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: 04/09/2024
Dedicated to Austinites, even ‘winged ones’ lol. ‘Never yuck anyone else’s yum.’ The main character Opal is adorable. ‘Cosmic cowboys’ - wonder if that was a nod to his other sci fi books 😂 It hits all the Austin highlights. The ‘Scratchbook’ interludes are cute. The bat names being streets of Austi......more
Cute, but soft-pedals too much. Full review to come. *** This is a middle grade-level book about a 13-year-old girl named Opal who loses her mother and moves with her uncle to Austin, Texas. Accompanying them to their new city are a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats who have lost their home to indust......more
I probably would have genuinely enjoyed this if I were 30 years younger. Cline's best book since Ready Player One, for what that's worth.......more
I read this book because it takes place in Austin and I recently moved to Austin and I was looking for a feel good local story. The characters and plot were uninspired and uninteresting. It feels like Cline's books progressively get worse. I don't think I'm going to bother reading any of his future......more
Read this for the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back. There are some sweet moments to this book, but it felt like it was constantly talking down to the reader, and at about the three quarters mark it basically becomes Forest Gump except localized just to Austin with the protagonist running into......more