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Entertaining read for a long flight.

Beautifully written

First page - 12 sentence. 6 start with She, 3 start with her name, 2 start with He and 1 is What a laugh. 🫣 please improve quickly, please!

"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."

Spring can not come without my Southern goth adventure and this one is just brilliant 👌

He is one of my favorite authors for a reason

This is a very well written story!

“..the true story of the pirates ... is even more captivating: a long-last tale of tyranny and resistance, a maritime revolt that shook the very foundations of the newly formed British Empire, bringing transatlantic commerce to a standstill and fueling the democratic sentiments that would later drive the American revolution.At its center was a pirate republic, a zone of freedom in the midst of an authoritarian age."

Beautifully written! I am reading it and looking at flights.

"He says: ‘I still return to my birthplace there. I can’t explain this, but sometimes I lie on the ground at that spot, and knead its earth in my hands. Then I feel the land, its mountains, entering my body.’....‘There is this compulsion to return,’ and I’ve heard that such a birth site can bind a person always, and even pull him back in death."

South Florida books really need a genre of their own. The stories are not quite Florida Man, probably because in addition to Florida Man, SoFlo is a abundan melting pot of cultures, stereotypes, and well, not too savory types from all over bringing their own crazy into the mix. I wonder if experiencing SoFlo life is a prerequisite for truly enjoying these books.
So far, an excellent SoFlo beach read 5 🌟

This has to be the best southern goth I've read!

OMG, HE is going to hitchhike. Oh, no,no,no, do not run into Carl and Sandy.

This is how Sci Fi needs to be written 💙
The movies did a good job capturing the story but the book (of course) offers so much more.

Why has it taken me so long to start this???!!!
Fell into it this morning (yes, don't act like falling into a random read is unfamiliar) and already love it!

Excellent! If you like history and don't mind being challenged, this is for you!

Talk about a book that makes you see, hear, and feel the adventure. I can already tell you, it's a 5 🌟 read!

Contemplating my 2024 reads over here. I am thinking maybe tackling my ever-growing TBR list and resisting the temptation of new finds. What is on your 2024 list?

Happy New Year!

Whoever recommended this book, thank you!
I can not speak for all, but as a mother of boys, it does touch a spot hidden deep, deep, in a mother's heart.

Included with Audible memberships right now.

It seems fitting to start the book today. Rest in Peace Sir and thank you for the timeless tales you've shared with us.

Very Cormac Mccarthy. The writing alone is 5 🌟.

How have I not come across William Gay before?!

"The Last of Us" meets "X-men" ? I am very much invested in this story now. Apparently, there is a 2017 movie but I will savour the book first.

Funny, clever, well written, and entertaining.

Project HEAVEN - Habitable Earths Abiogenic Vessel Exploration 🙃 the acronyms are hilarious

"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction." 😬

Майстор на словото е Данаилов!

I think the Universe wants me to finish Dracula next. Already then!