Monica Burkholder’s Reviews > A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax > Status Update

“She had never crossed the Atlantic before while watching a movie. She wasn’t sure she approved. She enjoyed it—that wasn’t quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a TV movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and without any decent sense of awe.