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New books! Plus a Harry Potter ornament for my nephew:)

This was a mostly adorable memoir. It was written in the 1960‘s and some of the language is not friendly for First Nations people. But hearing the descriptions of the PNW made me homesick.

M. Wylie Blanchet was left with 5 children in the Vancouver wilderness in 1926 when her husband was presumed dead after never returning from a day trip on their boat. The boat was recovered, and 2 years later, Blanchet began what would become a 15 year tradition of spending the entire summer exploring the Pacific North West alone with her children on 25ft boat. This is a beautifully written, impressionistic memoir of those adventures in the wild.

Like visiting with a friend you haven't seen in a long while, in a place where you used to live. I would read this in the summers growing up, while we sailed around Vancouver Island, and wish our setting was as untouched as the Blanchets found it. This is a perfect read to close out my summer.