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Hi everyone.
I made it back into CR in time for Christmas!
Hello to everyone who remembers me and hello to all you new CRs out there.
My tallship trip was wonderful and I feel very honoured to have been able to visit some of the more remote islands in the South Pacific, to meet some great folks there and on board and to have survived the experience of sailing the Roaring Forties. Boy did it roar! We were weather routed when half way across the southern ocean from New Zealand to Easter Island because of a huge storm which had been brewing over new calendonia and turned southward and we were heading straight for it. It logged 950 on the barometer, that's very very low, and at its peak reached force 12 with gusts of 13, that's Katrina style storm. Sadly they don't name them int he Southern oocean - there's no one there, except us! We nicknamed it Dirty Gertie! we skedaddled eastward at full pelt and managed to get away with force 10 with gusts of 11. Still it took us 5 days to do that which meant to didn't make Easter Island, Pitcairn or the Gambier Islands. Shame! Still we headed north to the safety of French Polynesia, making first landfall on Tubuai in the Austral Islands. The list of expereinces and first is long, as is my reading list from those quiet moments on board
Xin Ran What The Chinese Don’t Eat
Sue Townsend Queen Camilla
Paul Thorday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
William Boyd Armadillo
Haruki Murikami Kafka on the Shore ***
Paolo Coelho The Witch of Portobello
Paolo Coelho And on the 7th Day ( Trilogy)
Mikail Bulgakov Master and Margarita
John Grisham Bleachers
John Grisham The Innocent Man
Yann Martel Life of Pi
Graham Greene Loser Takes All
Richard Yates Easter Parade **
Philip Roth Zuckerman Bound, Anthology & Epilogue
Michael Cunningham Specimen Days ***
Carol Shields Stone Diaries
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams Long Dark Teamtime of the Soul
Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca ***
Daphne Du Maurier Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier Frenchmeans Creek
Daphne Du Maurier My Cousin Rachel
Kate Morton The House at Riverton ***
Anne Tyler Digging in America
Anita Shreve A Wedding in December
David Lodge Therapy
Richard North Patterson The Balance of Power
Rosie Thomas Iris and Ruby ***
Alexander McCall Smith The Careful Use of Compliments
Sebastian Faulks Charlotte Gray
Armistead Maupin Micheal Tolliver Lives
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenin
Khaled Housseni A Thousand Splendid Suns **
Melvyn Bragg The Adventure of English
in addition to my French course and various podcasts and music I took with me.
All for now and will be on the Short Story board soon
Sheila
Welcome back, Sheila. I've been following your adventure on Facebook, but it's wonderful to see you back here. You really DID get a whole lot of reading in. Where did the books come from? I can't imagine you brought all of them.
No, the ship has a library, made up from a seed collection started by the owners and then added to over the years by crewe and a few exchanges along the way with other yatchs. It was amazing how much "free" time you have. We worked shifts - 4 hours in and 8 off, 8-12, 12-4, 4-8 etc so there were inevitably times when you were awake but others were asleep and this was the best time to catch some reading.
Wow, Sheila, what a spectacular experience! I'll be over to check out your Facebook page soon. How nice to have that much good reading material available through the efforts of the owners, crew, etc. I would have feared all romance and detective stories. We begin talking about Anna Karenina on Feb. 1st. I hope you can join in. Also, we're looking forward to your participation in the Short Stories conference. After Christmas, I am going to be asking for new story proposals, so you're just in time! Do you have the current anthology, The Art of the Story?
Barb,I'm still working on most of my photos which currently reside on a flash drive. I hope to get them up and visible sometime betwen Christmas and New Year
Unbelieveable...I will miss your Facebook adventures but I am also glad you are back here! What a reading list!
