Look up on the Fitness site for the neat article by Linda Schoenberger. Think a lot more people might enjoy the change of Open Water Swimming. It's really exhilherating to do them! JP
On Nine Ways to Cross a River: The navel-gazing and quotations I can do without. I'm interested in a) the logistics and b) trips reports from under the surface, things she saw. But I have not in fact read it, merely glanced thru it, which says something in itself.
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Now that I've read two chapters, I miss the sweep, the diving into the subject, the narrative strength of a John McPhee. The author's personal story is just not that compelling. Many opportunities to really write she seems to turn away from. Her accidental meeting with Pete Seeger, folk musician and hero of the Hudson, should have burned an image of him in my mind. It didn't. She quotes from Edward Abbey, Alan Moorehead - from quite a few people in fact - with the result that it's beginning to feel like burnished college journalism rather than A Book.
VB
On Nine Ways to Cross a River: The navel-gazing and quotations I can do without. I'm interested in a) the logistics and b) trips reports from under the surface, things she saw. But I have not in fact read it, merely glanced thru it, which says something in itself.
:wave:
Now that I've read two chapters, I miss the sweep, the diving into the subject, the narrative strength of a John McPhee. The author's personal story is just not that compelling. Many opportunities to really write she seems to turn away from. Her accidental meeting with Pete Seeger, folk musician and hero of the Hudson, should have burned an image of him in my mind. It didn't. She quotes from Edward Abbey, Alan Moorehead - from quite a few people in fact - with the result that it's beginning to feel like burnished college journalism rather than A Book.
VB
