pickWhat an adventure! Janey is living a very different life than most kids, but it‘s funny how universal feelings are. Friendships, moving, facing fears, speaking up for yourself, and learning the world is a bigger place than your own narrow point-of-view are things we all, more or less, encounter at one point of another.
pickIn the 1960s, writer Mowat decided to get a boat and pilot it from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Get a boat he did, but never made it that far, as he and the boat really had no business ever being on the water. Other than a bit too much of “isn‘t drinking heavily hilarious?!” (it‘s not), this is a funny, entertaining book about a temperamental boat and some of the inhabitants of maritime Canada.
pickI liked this nature-based memoir less than I expected to. Something about the way it hangs together doesn‘t flow (ironic, given the title). I read it slowly, never feeling compelled to pick it back up, but I had no specific complaints whenever I did & enjoyed my time spent within its pages.
Stowe writes of her experience as a young, female sailor in her 20‘s, working largely on research vessels or going it alone, studying marine ecology. 👇🏻
Did you know that Sylvia Earle, (oceanographer, explorer, diver, ocean advocate) is sometimes referred to as “Her Deepness”?
If that‘s not the coolest title, I don‘t know what is!
pickThis book explores the eternal question “What would life at sea be like with your family?” While also being a brutally honest (but not unkind) exploration of being a tween and realizing that you don‘t necessarily have much in common with your friends, you might not even like each other.
This book was ponderous and annoying. I picked it for my book club and was almost immediately sorry. But I persisted and finished it!
The Wild Inside doesn‘t make a lot of sense and contains animal abuse that isn‘t contained just to “the wild.”
Burn had an interesting premise but didn‘t really live up to it, and I‘m probably done with Peter Heller.
The Darkness was great until the ending, and that‘s all I can really say. 🤬
#worstof2024
pickIn 1982, despite an absence of boating experience, Jonathan Raban decided to sail around England. Here he presents his travels on sea and stops on land in a snapshot from a different era. He also does a little random noodling. I enjoyed it.
pickBetter than I expected. I thought it would just be a mindless enjoyable book but it had more depth. A lot of lessons learned about following and finding your dreams
#BookHaul from my local #DollarTree store! 📚
Some will be gifts. While a couple I just may read myself! ☺️📖
