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Title: The Lobster Chronicles : Life On a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0-7868-8591-2 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another from the lady who survived The Perfect Storm
Comment: Remember Linda Greenlaw? The captain of the boat that DIDN'T go down in The Perfect Storm? Here she is again, and she's written a beauty of a book, very different from The Hungry Ocean, her previous book about that nasty storm. Greenlaw has given up swordfishing and lives on a teensy island off Maine's coast where she's a lobster-woman. Only 47 souls live full-time on this island, and she figures she's someway related to more than half of them. This book is a collection of essays, many of which are stand-alone pieces, full of Down East eccentric characters that enrich her life, the island, and the world itself just by the largess of their existence.
I recently participated on a panel with Greenlaw at SF's Books by the Bay and found her to be as open, engaging, self-confident, and funny in person as she is on the printed page.
Read it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Empty Traps
Comment: 'The Lobster Chronicles' describes Linda Greenlaw's frustrating lobster season off a Maine island. As Linda pulls up empty traps, the reader feels there is also something missing in the text.
The book does a nice job depicting life on a Maine island, where the author excels at painting the natural and physical features of the isle. You sniff the saltwater, pines and barnacles. Some of the island characters are wonderful in their stoic nature with an occasional streak of zaniness. Linda gives us a very textbook lesson in lobstering. We learn about these delicious giant insects, how they are captured and how they are replenished.
What Ms. Greenlaw does not provide is an honest depiction of herself. Why would an enormously successful sword fishing captain and best-selling author, settle on a tiny island? Why is her bank account so tight, when we know her earnings on the first book were very good? Perhaps she lost all the money. Tell us about it? Maybe a love or tragedy sent her home? We want to know?
'The Lobster Chronicles' is a good travel log. Like the missing lobsters, the book is empty when it comes honest self perspective.
Rating: 5
Summary: laughter among the lobsters
Comment: Our discussion on Linda Greenlaw's second memoir-type book, was full of laughs. This is in contrast to her first, very serious effort about the death defying Hungry Ocean and being captain of a swordfish boat. Returning home to live on an island of only 70 year-round residents, with 30 being related to Linda, would require humor. She provides daily events which entertain and reveal true Maine island characters. Lobstering is not easy either, but her family and island friends make the long, cold winter an intimate affair. Who wants to attend those community meetings, anyway? Same problem in crowded cities on shore...I am looking forward to Greenlaw's third book, fiction next, I believe?
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Title: The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0786885416 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession : King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312089244 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger ISBN: 0060977477 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men, and the Oceans They Fish by Leslie Leyland Fields ISBN: 0312277261 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave by Daniel Hays ISBN: 156512345X Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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