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This might be a perfect book. The author is on an incredible adventure by rowing and hiking to the Arctic. She’s a nature and bird lover, and the special sauce is she talks about food a lot. I enjoy how she details what they eat along the way, how they back it, their nutritional needs, food mishaps and the like. Nature, birds and food….I can get on board with this.

Charming. Starting to wonder where it’s going.

Not gonna finish. I think this needs a straight read through instead of opening it every 2 or 3 days. Switching to my next book.

Just what I wanted. Woods, coming of age, mystery, Adirondacks. Skilled writing.

This book is cracking me up. It’s a catchy story while also being thought provoking.

I will read this book forever. There is no time when these essays won’t live in my head.

Simply remarkable. I want to read it slowly and let her images simmer.

Struggling. Very YA. I have a hard time with keeping up with different lands and lore and spells and such. Just how my old brain works. Thought there was more s()xy time too. She persists.

I already love it. His writing and wit reminds me
of Stand By Me, Owen Meany, and The Whistling Season. All favorites!!!

Luxuriously imaginative. The prose keeps me afloat. Need a bit more progress at this point but happy to be swayed by her storytelling prowess.

Raucously fun so far. Ah to be a teenager on the loose, with means, and a glamorous sidekick in NYC 1940.

What she left behind was good writing skills. I hope it improves. I am only in the first chapter which is setting the stage for what appears to be a big story. But the writer isn't wowing me with her creative skills. Yet. I am open to what comes. I hope it gets better.

I was in Charleston, SC last weekend of the first time and a friend recommended I read this book. I loved Secret Life of Bees so it was easy to give this one a try. I am liking it so far and enjoying the references to Charleston that I now recognize (Bay Street, Broad Street, St. Phillips, and many more.)

I love this writer...her wit, gracious perspective, and tone. This is a memoir and it's put together as a series of short essays on her perspective on love and other acts of charity (wink wink). It reminds me of Gilead - the quiet meditation on life and faith.

This is one of my big problems with ebooks...you don't know how long a book is when you click BUY. This book far exceeds what I normally dive into. It started well but now it feels like the author likes her own voice quite a bit. It is getting long. The first part of the book set up a nice storyline but the plot has slowed and the pace is plodding.

Our book club selected this as our New Year book. I've read a lot of books like this and being in Sales, I go to a lot of seminars about motivation and fear. I look forward to reading this and discussing it with our group in January.

This author sure can depict a disillusioned wife and out of touch husband. Will this author attempt to make me sympathetic for Wes? If not, let's get on with this and let Leslie start living again.

This might be my summer of baseball books. My young daughter has played softball for 4 seasons and it has fostered my love of the game. I just finished Art of Fielding and need 2 or 3 others to round out a summer of baseball.

I want to like this book but so far I am underwhelmed. I like the main characters and I like their motivations. But it's going moving too slowly, too plodding, too much about Ethan and Lena's pull toward each other and not enough about much else so far. I want deeper, more insightful, more thoughtful. Maybe Young Adult fiction isn't my cup of tea. I am hoping it picks up quick.