Status Updates From The Salt House: A Summer on...

Some fabulous pieces, but grew hard to read all at once.

A quick read that was very enjoyable. I learned a great deal from reading this story and liked the fact that it was kept simple for its young adult audience. One reason I enjoy the historical fiction genre so much is that it is informative. Not only was it an interest plot line but it was laced with details about the event. It is clear that

I picked this book up again after a few months. I continue to work through it, but the poetic nature of the writing that first drew me to the story now makes me want to stop reading. It seems sometimes that the author is trying too hard to write!

This going to the beach is something new under the sun. We have had to learn pleasure here. For centuries the beach was a place to walk and forage, to search the horizon for ships or weather, cast for fish or launch boats. It was a serious place, a work place. The water was for keeping out of; even the fishermen didn't know how to swim.

Try telling your dreams to another person and that gulf appears. You find yourself on another store wildly waving, shouting, repeating yourself, as your listener's eyes glaze over.