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Minus- I was born in Ca, lived on the East Coast near the "Shore", and have lived in a surfing village in Peru. I feel all ocean and water experiences are unique and have their own specialness. My father was a yachtsman and wrote a lot of maritime history. Mainly current century Corinthian racing, modern small boat Naval architecture (wondering if "Naval" should have been capitalized, probably not, haha) and heard a lot of sailing stories from him..
Anyway, hope nobody minds a photo, here is something for Minus, longing for the Pacific:
This is from the north cliffs at Cape Blanco, taken in March, 2015. The lighthouse, next pic, is the westernmost spot in the continental U.S.
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Oh wow - thanks Jackbird.
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Katy, welcome again. Since retirement, I usually read about 3 books a week, but during chemo I could not focus and therefore had trouble reading. I streamed TV shows and movies in bed with my IPad for 3 months. After chemo was over, I couldn't wait to get back to reading, gardening and enjoying chocolate! Chemo is tough-- very tough-- but it does end, and you come out of it with a renewed appreciation for life's simple pleasures.
Just finished David Baldacci's "Memory Man" and "The Precious One" by a woman author whose name I forget. Very different books but both enjoyable.
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Love the photos!
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Katy, I, too, am mesmerized by the water. I lived on the Chesapeake Bay for 14 years and, for the past 13 years, have lived on a remote island in the Bahamas, where I sit now, with the turquoise Atlantic Ocean just yards away. Charleston is our second home, our legal address. We used to ship heavy boxes of books to the island. Thank goodness for Kindle, Amazon and wi-fi!!
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WaveWhisperer- I am scribbling notes on future books to read. What a find this thread is for me. I'm dead in the water here. It's encouraging to know that my ability to read will come back. Your long association with the water and current (no pun intended) surroundings sound idyllic.
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Wave - through a long a convoluted chain of events, I've had a lot on Andros since the late 1970s. Haven't been there in years so it may be totally over grown, but I still pay taxes.
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Me too!!!!!! I HAVE BETWEEN YOU AND ME ON MY COFFEE TABLE WAITING TO BE READ!!!!💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Minus....for sure I will see you for dinner! And it doesn't have to be in Galveston! Wave....notice I started a sentence with the word "and."😱
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And (me too) I notice that I usually drop the subject from my writings - and I don't even text, so no real excuse. (dropping the verbs too I see - "I have no real excuse"). No one would believe that I was an English teacher in another life.
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VR- too funny you have that book on your coffee table too
Minus- after re-reading your post I realized you might have been yearning for something more dramatic.
This is the first day of crab season in Port Orford, a working fishing village still. There is no safe harbor, so every day these old fishing boats have to be lifted out of the water by the big cranes. It's called a "Dolly Dock". There are only a few left in the U.S. Crabbing is huge business in this small community of about 1,000 residents, so despite the rough weather, these old salts are.....undeterred.
Humbug Mountain in the distance. I think I took this in December 2012
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Minus, I'm horrified at how lax my writing has become since I started personal correspondence on Facebook, websites and e-mails. Oh, well..
We live on Eleuthera but have spent much time on Andros. Went to Small Hope Bay Lodge in Fresh Creek twice a year in the '90s, including on our honeymoon. Used to bike to the Androsia factory. Andros still is very quiet, mostly mangroves! (See, like you, I dropped subjects of two of last three sentences!)
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Jackbird - No, danger not required. I just love the rocks & waves. But I like the crab boats too. Fascinating process. I spent a week in Bodega Bay one Dungeness Crab season. They still have a working harbor & I ate crab three times a day w/the fishermen headed out or headed in. Walked the cliffs & climbed rocks & communed with the ocean when I wasn't eating. Heaven!!
Wave - one of the couples we met stayed at Small Hope Bay. She got hit on the knee by a falling cocoanut on their beach and it messed up their trip. I took my first serious open water dive there - tongue of the ocean. I ask the guy driving the skiff how deep we were going. He pointed to a cloud and said, "never no more than 30 ft under that cloud mon." I was so nervous I never questioned the logic, and the water was so clear I had no idea we were over 60 ft down. Such a magical memory.
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minus 2. we'd spend a week every summer on the farthest west cabin. the upstairs, at Dillon beach e
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Well - sorry readers. Didn't mean to hijack this thread off to ocean & beach discussions. I could go on forever, but back on topic...
Two short story books on my night table. Shiloh & Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason - 1982 book. She's new to me but I think I'm going to like her. Sounds like stories are mostly based in her home state of Kentucky. Also have Sugar & Other Stories by A.S. Byatt - 1987 book. I loved The Matisse Stories so I'm relatively sure I'll like these. Interesting blurb on the back ..."resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder."
VR - does your DH read library books or wait for paperbacks? Last week I read Lee Child's Personal from 2014 that just came out in paperback. I thought it was a good one.
Happy Holiday, Happy Reading.
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minus....I put reserves at the library BEFORE the books are released, so that insures that the DH gets the books as soon as they are published. I check the authors' websites to see when their books will be available and then contact the library to make sure, I've placed the reserve. The library automatically orders certain authors, so I usually don't have to worry whether or not they will buy the books that he enjoys. Baldacci and Childs are very, very popular where I live.
I tend to read less popular authors. That said, my library is very accommodating when I ask them to purchase a book.
Regarding Memory Man...the DH and I enjoyed talking about the book, despite the fact that I never read it.
What I find so interesting about those suspense thrillers is that they can sometimes uncannily predict the future. Reading Dead Wake, Larson spoke about a story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote prior to the sinking of the Lusitania that predicted a war submarine attacking a cruise ship....
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good detective series, set in maine as I recall,a n episcopal lady priest and her love interest, a married cop
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Into Thin Air was a great read. There's a movie titled Everest, based on the book, coming out in Sep.
Now I have another of his books on my TBR list - Into the Wild. Anyone read it?
In the library queue for Dead Wake, The Nightingale, and the new John Sandford Gathering Prey.
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Badger- yes on Into The Wild. A good read, but hard. Also based on a true story
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Yes, I agree about Into the Wild. Also read his Under the Banner of Heaven - a departure from his nature books since it's about present day polygamy.
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Under the Banner of Heaven was excellent. There are a number of facinating books written about the subject by women and their personal experiences. I consider many of them, profiles in courage.
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yes an interesting subject. I loved the tv series big love but quit watching when they killed off the husband. then there's the late & greatly lamented colleen mc cullough. I think about her husband rick, wonder how he's doing, not great I suspect. in my experience grief is the worst pain of all. I send him healing thoughts. I think she died suddenly, was a heavy woman as I recall, but read her an indecent obsession. set in a convalescent hospital for sounded soldiers in the philapeses as I recall, fabulous love story here too
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Wow! Abigail! I never knew that about her! You raise an interesting point. Some authors back stories are often as interesting or even, sometimes, more interesting than the stories they write about.
Recently, deceased author and CBS commentator, Charles Kuralt's name came up in conversation. I still can't get over the double life that he led.....Interesting that he led such a life and his name wasn't sullied until after he passed. How he lived his life seems like it was ripped from a popular novel!
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Wow! VR! I never knew that about him! A wife in NY and a long-time companion in MT, fighting over his will.
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ric, different last name, & colleen mc cullough lived on an island off the coast of new zeeland?
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Okay... So I'm not a grammar maven. However, I thought reading Between You and Me would clarify for me some English usage. I'm sure the author is a cracker jack proof reader, but her explanations are more complicated than they need to be. Her stories and examples? Eh. And, some of her opinions about English usage seem to rub me the wrong way. Perhaps I see the language as being even more dynamic and ever changing than she does. Not that she doesn't take a swing at editors who are even more conservative than she is. She does. But one of the things that I find peculiar about English is how, in such a short period of time, the expression, "We're pregnant," has now become acceptable. She doesn't mention this in her book. Perhaps working at the New Yorker, the subject has never come up. I guess my expectations for the book were higher than what she could deliver.
That said, I enjoyed The Story of Ain't way, way more!
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VR - thanks for the review. I'll put it further down my list.
Going tomorrow for the final trip to the used book store before they close for good this weekend. I have to look through 'H to P' in mysteries and several shelves of what I guess is called "general". And then the non-fiction. I was so excited to discover last trip that the owner is big into Boy Scouts. I have tons of stuff that I've been trying to find a home for. Luckily he knows troups where the boys could really use help with uniforms or tents or mess kits. And he collects Scout books. I have 45-50 of those, some quite old. Also a huge bag of patches - no doubt several collectibles - that he can use as prizes or incentives. I'm so pleased to be able to give things to someone who really cares. My entire trunk is full. Keep your fingers crossed that we have a day without rain since the shop is 40 minutes each way.
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Minus! Safe travels!!!!
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After surgery last week, I can almost concentrate enough to read again. I hate anesthesia brain
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Minus that is wonderful that he knows where you can donate that Scouting stuff. HOpe the rain holds off for your travels.0
