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asawayns · 2 years

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book-warehouse-broadway · 4 years

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Hope you're all having a wonderful long weekend!

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vintagecamping · 6 years

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The Curve Of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet is a wonderful true life account of a woman who was unfortunately, left a widow in 1927, packed up her 5 children onto a 25ft boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.

Murial Wylie Blanchett acted single handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and of course Mom as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in the rich traditions of the area’s First Nations communities, and in nature itself. Its a wonderful and compelling account of their journeys and I highly recommend it to anybody interested in setting off on their own adventures into the unknown...

#vintage camping #campfire light #recommended reading #goodreads #The Curve Of Time #m. wylie blanchet #kids books #vintage books #sailing #fishing #adventure #beautiful British Columbia #nomads #traveling #family

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anoriginalbrilliantutterance · 4 years

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If you try to cut through, you are suddenly surrounded by a maze of boulders. Every time you turn to avoid one, another steps directly in front of you. You may think you have worked out a passage. But the boulders have anticipated this and have spent the intervening time inching their way into your supposed channel.

#anthropomorphizing boulders #the curve of time #m. wylie blanchet

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accidentalspaceexplorer · 4 years

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January Recap

I read a lot of books this month, and several really interesting ones. I also read six books off of my physical TBR shelf this month, which is an accomplishment considering that I read maybe that many off the shelf in the whole of last year! Definitely making progress. Interestingly, I read a lot of books that weren't really my jam this month. Maybe the two are related?

Anyways, my favorites this month were The City & The City, The Duchess War, and Because Internet.

The Waves by Virginia Woolf: 3/5

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse: 4.5/5

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren: 4.5/5

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden: 3/5

A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev: 2/5

The City & The City by China Mieville: 4.5/5

Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn: 2/5

The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet: 4/5

Uprooted by Naomi Novik: 5/5 (re-read with the Novel Predictions podcast)

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan: 4.5/5

Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear: 3.5/5

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: 3/5

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone: 4.5/5

Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch: 5/5

Hounded by Kevin Hearne: 2.5/5

Also I realized that I never made one for December, so I’m putting it under the cut:

I read a lot of fantastic books in December! My favorites were This is How You Lose the Time War and Gideon the Ninth,

This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar: 5/5

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean: 4.5/5

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: 5/5

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold: 5/5

Anathem by Neal Stephenson: 3/5 (DNF)

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones: 5/5

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey: 4/5

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger: 3.5/5

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett: 5/5

The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski: 4.5/5

Well Met by Jen DeLuca: 5/5

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison: 5/5

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin: 5/5

#book review #monthly recap #january 2020 #december 2019 #sort of

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tristancasey · 6 years

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“ I left Jan trying to sketch the thunderbird, and the other two picking up old blue trading beads; and worked my way through the nettles to a burial tree that I had spotted right back of the village. It was an immense fir, seven or eight hundred years old—so old that nothing could amaze it any more. Streamers of lichen dripped grey from bark and branches. Century after century it had stood there watching the fortunes of the little village at its feet. Had it rejoiced with them in the good times—times of plenty? Wept with them in the bad times—times of battle and famine? Or had it merely held their dead more lightly or more tightly as required? There were nine or ten boxes still up there, clasped in it’s gnarled branches. Perhaps the old tree’s clutch was growing feeble, or perhaps it was too old to care—for when I stepped round its base to the other side, three blood-stained skulls lay there on the ground. I shrank back in horror... but making myself look again, saw that it was only dye off the burial blankets. After lunch we rowed across to the burial islands. When tree burial was forbidden by the government the natives took to putting their dead on special burial islands, piling up the boxes in small log shelters through which the wind could blow. Each family or crest had its own island. The first one we landed on belonged to the wolf crest - a great running wolf thirty feet long, made of boards and painted white, with red and blue extra eyes and signs, stood guard over the dead of his family. On the other island, a killer whale proclaimed that the dead of his family lay there. “ - M. Wylie Blanchet, The Curve of Time

#the curve of time #library

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carot-dj · 7 years

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Nice companion book to "The Curve of Time" "The Curve of Time" written by M. Wylie Blanchet is one of my favorite books so I am very pleased that Cathy Converse has written a terrific biography about "Capi" Blanchet--captain of the Caprice, adventurer, mother and unique individual. Go to Amazon

good follow up Fills in the gaps about what could have happened to her husband. It was also nice to read about what the kids have accomplished. It got a bit tedious with all the genology and who was related to who. Worth a read if you read the Curve of Time. Go to Amazon

Excellent follow-up to The Curve of Time. After reading the Curve of Time several times, I always wondered about Capi and her family. This book starts out on the main land with her parents and ends describing her life and the kids well after Capi's book ends. Go to Amazon

Wasn't as good as I thought it would be Wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Really enjoy "The Curve of Time". I have read this book quite often over the years. Go to Amazon

Such a wonderful book. Savoring one chapter at a time Such a wonderful book. Savoring one chapter at a time. Go to Amazon

Three Stars An enjoyable read a little bit long describing the different coastal villages Go to Amazon

Great read Good depth on the book Go to Amazon

Four Stars A special mark in time for the history of coastal British Columbia. Go to Amazon

Filler Following Well Back "Invented Parts Are Best"

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asawayns · 2 years

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[PDF] Download The Curve of Time -- M. Wylie Blanchet

Download Or Read PDF The Curve of Time - M. Wylie Blanchet Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook.

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accidentalspaceexplorer · 4 years

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The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet

This is a memoir of a widow’s travels with her children around the British Columbia waterways. They traveled every summer her children were growing up in a tiny boat that barely fit all of them, finding adventures and beautiful places.

I really enjoyed this memoir, despite the fact that this isn’t usually my kind of thing. It’s very vivid in its descriptions of everything from the scenery to the boat to the fish. I’ve never been on a boat overnight before, so all of the descriptions of navigating and keeping the boat safe were really fascinating. But I particularly enjoyed the way that it seemed almost to paint a landscape inside my head, and I kept having to slow down to appreciate it better.

I was glad to have the warning in the Foreword that her attitudes towards Native Americans and orcas (which I wasn’t expecting to be warned about but it did explain some things) are typical of the 1920s and 30s but aren’t what we would consider good, because then when it came up I was prepared for it. She really doesn’t spend a long time on those subjects in the memoir, but she does and thinks some objectionable things. So if you do read this, keep that in mind.

My Rating: 4/5

#book review #the curve of time

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carot-dj · 7 years

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Nice companion book to "The Curve of Time" "The Curve of Time" written by M. Wylie Blanchet is one of my favorite books so I am very pleased that Cathy Converse has written a terrific biography about "Capi" Blanchet--captain of the Caprice, adventurer, mother and unique individual. Go to Amazon

good follow up Fills in the gaps about what could have happened to her husband. It was also nice to read about what the kids have accomplished. It got a bit tedious with all the genology and who was related to who. Worth a read if you read the Curve of Time. Go to Amazon

Excellent follow-up to The Curve of Time. After reading the Curve of Time several times, I always wondered about Capi and her family. This book starts out on the main land with her parents and ends describing her life and the kids well after Capi's book ends. Go to Amazon

Wasn't as good as I thought it would be Wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Really enjoy "The Curve of Time". I have read this book quite often over the years. Go to Amazon

Such a wonderful book. Savoring one chapter at a time Such a wonderful book. Savoring one chapter at a time. Go to Amazon

Three Stars An enjoyable read a little bit long describing the different coastal villages Go to Amazon

Great read Good depth on the book Go to Amazon

Four Stars A special mark in time for the history of coastal British Columbia. Go to Amazon

Filler Following Well Back "Invented Parts Are Best"

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