The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416589082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great read! I stumbled upon this because I enjoy" according to AR. Great read! I stumbled upon this because I enjoy sailing books. This book is Great read! I stumbled upon this because I enjoy AR Great read! I stumbled upon this because I enjoy sailing books. This book is 40% about sailing and 60% about relationships. Not really what I was looking for, but I enjoyed it greatly anyway. Janna is a great writer. (Thankfully, she doesn't write like Joshua Slocum.). 0% about sailing and 60% about relationships. Not really what I was looking for, but I enjoyed it greatly anyway. Janna is a great writer. (Thankfully, she doesn't write like Joshua Slocum.). the cruising book I was waiting for The Motion of the Ocean is a book about a couple who takes off to go sailing--but it's more about the couple than the sailing, and that's as it should be. Which sounds obvious, but isn't usually the case in cruising stories. Love and doubt, boredom and sex, mishaps and the little big private joys that no one knows about unless you're brave and talented enough to figure out how to express them to others--all that is at the core of this special book, surrounded by ocean passages and . nice in-betweener voracios reader I bought this book because it was on Jen Lancaster's list of summer reads. It is a memoire of a couple's two year cruising voyage, and was funny and interesting at times, at other times it seemed to drag with stories or details that I didn't care about. It went a bit slow, but not enough to stop me from reading it. The author's realizations and struggles sometimes seemed a bit naive regarding marriage and realtionships (for someone in their mid 30's), and I didn't feel that in the
This highly entertaining debut memoir follows Esarey and her new husband on a 17,000-mile journey around the Pacific Ocean. A well-written, rollicking high-seas adventure, this will appeal to anyone who enjoys a good love story.
he also happens to be my husband.” While most thirty-somethings are climbing the corporate ladder or popping out babies, Janna Cawrse and her boyfriend Graeme take a different tack: they quit their jobs, tie the knot, and embark on a most unusual honeymoon cruise—813 days across the Pacific Ocean on a beat-up old sailboat. Maarten Troost (The Sex Lives of Cannibals) and Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love), Janna Cawrse Esarey gives readers a satisfying mix of soul-searching and romantic comedy while she seeks to answer this crucial question: When the waters get rough, will she—a novice sailor and spouse—abandon ship? Or will she learn to nav