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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea | 
This was a book club pick that literally made me want to cry. I was not interested in this book and felt like I was back in school being forced to read shit I didn't want to. But because I had declined attending the previous meeting because I didn't want to read Tuesdays with Morrie I forced myself to read it.
I LOVED every word of it!!!! And I ended up being the only member who liked it 😂
#VolumesAndVocals #DarkHorseKatyPerry
This book is a telling of a collision of storms off that created havoc for not only the F/V Andrea Gail but for the community as well. There's lots of weather science in the book that I found riveting, similar to Erik Larson or Mary Roach. If you like non-fiction and are an extreme-weather-outdoor-survival-story kind of reader then you will like this book.#litsyAtoZ for the letter J and it completes my challenge!
#SpringSentiments Day 7 @Eggs
When dealing with an angry sea remaining #Buoyant is always a good thing.
pickListened this on audio book. I wish more of the book was about the storm itself, and less of a summary of the fishing industry. Overall it was still good.
I just can‘t imagine how terrifying that would be. #quotes #constructionatsea
Weather forecasts.... I love it! #quotes
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away. #GimmeShelter
I liked both book and movie. This book taught me to appreciate detail in storytelling. And can I just give a shout out to swordfisherman - like, what the hell are you thinking!!?
Litsy Challenge Day 8 #MayMovieMagic #BookToMovie #GimmeShelter
@cinfhen @rohit-sawant
“In 1938, the hurricane put downtown Providence, Rhode Island, under 10 feet of ocean. The waves generated by that storm were so huge that they literally shook the earth; seismographs in Alaska picked up their impact 5,000 miles away.”
#QuotsyFeb19 | 23: #Motion
📷: Made with Typorama
so-so
It was good, but there was a lot of detail that I just ended up skimming over. The author talked to families and loved ones of the missing fishermen, and to some of the rescuers and survivors, as well as others who had a link to the people caught in the storm. There were a lot of people to keep track of, and I was unsuccessful at much of that, often forgetting who was who unless there was a reminder. Cont in comments...
#WinterWonderland #BlowNorthernWind conjured images of howling winds, enormous waves, erratic rains.... pretty much the elements that led to The Perfect Storm. Saw the movie, George Clooney ( what more do you need to know)😜💟
so-soWasn‘t crazy about this one.
It‘s sold as the story of the Andrea Gail, when it should follow whole storm, and the players, throughout. Since the last third is all but devoid of the Andrea Gail, Junger shifts to other rescues happening in the Atlantic at that time. Great... but feels like filler because up ‘til then, it was all about one ship & her crew.
If you‘re interested, it‘s worth a read. But you can watch the movie and be done, too.
Of course we stopped by the Carteret County Library book sale on our way home from the beach. #bookhaul #noselfcontrol
Gloucester, Massachusetts Fishermen‘s memorial. 📚💙🌊
Add in: room for my family to stay with us as needed and ALL THE TOILET PAPER, and we're as ready for Irma as it's possible to be.
"Going to sea is going to prison, with a chance at drowning besides." Samuel Johnson
"How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?"
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A heartbreaking account of the last moments of those aboard the fateful last voyage of the Andrea Gail.
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#theperfectstorm #sebastianjunger #amreading #currentlyreading #bookandnature #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #withnature #bookdragon #booknerd #booknerdigan #bookish #booksoutofdoors #booksoutside
so-soWell, it had some really good points... but it also had some really boring, information dumping points, too. Did not care for the narration. Half the time he sounded bored with the story.
Very long audio book!
#booksetbythesea - and, in this case, on it. My hubby read this. I can't after seeing the movie. #somethingforseptember #septphotochallenge #septemberphotochallenge
