technodelic commented on The self-sufficient sailor by Lin Pardey
I've been fascinated by Hundred Rabbits' (100r.co) tales of life aboard their sailboat and they talk about reading Pardey and I saw it on the shelf at Powell's so here I am.
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technodelic finished reading Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell (Trader's Tales From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper, #1)
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL HAS RETURNED -- IN THE YEAR 2351
When his mother …
This is really relaxing low-drama read that scratches an itch I've had recently for nautical, ship-board life accounts.
Except for the whole thing of the Ishmael Wong losing his mother at the beginning and being forced to leave his planet it's pretty much stress-free. Ishmael has to work at stuff but he succeeds at everything. You'd think it would be boring but instead it's comforting.
technodelic rated Quarter Share: 5 stars
Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell (Trader's Tales From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper, #1)
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL HAS RETURNED -- IN THE YEAR 2351
When his mother dies in a flitter crash, …
technodelic started reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Everybody raves about this series, and I'm curious about the Pattern Jugglers and whatever that other mysterious alien race is, and my reading was going okay but I got sidetracked and now I'm just not feeling it.