I heard about this man on the radio this afternoon, Karine, and the story definitely piqued my interest in reading this book. For years I have been influenced by a wonderful story of exploring the islands of coastal British Columbia, a remembrance by Murial Wiley Blanchet; "The Curve of Time". The stories in this book, of a widow spending summers in the Twenties and Thirties cruising the waters of The Inland Passage with her 5 children and a dog in a 26 foot boat, are some of the most evocative and beautifully written narratives of travel, and its affects on the travelers, that I have read. This book is a classic in the Maritime literature of Canada, so perhaps you are familiar with it. If not, I highly recommend it. Her stories of solitude and encounters with wild animals and the spirits of the First nations peoples among the beauty of the then still-wild forests, mountains and waters of this part of the world are inspiring and thoughtful, and for years I hoped to go there in my own boat to experience it myself. I never quite got there, but still think about it a lot. When cruising the San Juan Islands, on the US side, I often thought about her experiences just to the north so long ago, thereby making my own more meaningful.Karine wrote:This is so, so sad
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/1 ... 69325.htmlI'm intimately attached to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (long story).Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at home in Mexico City around midday, according to people close to his family. He was 87.
I read it for the first time when I was a teenager and I can't remember how many times I read it. It's a beautiful novel, that requires patience and efforts but that is worth it.
The first line was enough to catch my attention: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Does anyone here feels connected to a book, a painting, a movie, etc.?
If I were to meet Sarah, I would ask her if she has read this book. I rather suspect she might have, being a "water person" herself.
"Our world then was both wide and narrow- wide in the immensity of sea and mountain; narrow in that the boat was very small, and we lived and camped, explored and swam in a little realm of our own making."-- M. Wylie Blanchet
43 pages, ouf! I hope I won't have too much corrections to make on these.
I think I'm gonna cry! Why can't I just have a peaceful week to work... 
