5/11/2023 0 Comments On Whale Island by Daniel HaysI certainly agree with checking out and doing what's good for you because the reality is "running around after little pieces of green paper" is a waste of time. Just for these new sounds in my life I want to stay here forever." I have stood in our harbor and heard water being dragged through seaweed, a jellyfish turned over, a ripple being reflected off a rock. I could never listen this completely before. The radio tells me there is a Canada - well, a Nova Scotia anyway - but overall, with the fog outside and inside our windows, the world is quite small and entertainment is scarce." It has been gray and stormy all week and it's only faith that lets me know there is a sun, a moon, and a mainland nearby. I know a lot about the minutia of their lives, rather like following someone you vaguely know in Facebook. Maybe if the author didn't seem to simply want to escape his life and had some other compelling motivation, this would have been more engaging. Halfway through I was already uninterested, but still finished in case something dramatic happened. And then there was the time this happened. I believe Daniel Hays believes himself to be a modern-day Thoreau, particularly since he quotes him at the beginning of almost every chapter, but while he includes supposed journal entries, they are more chronological than thoughtful. I'm discovering that people moving to an uninhabited island is not so interesting. I had high hopes for this, because of my cold weather island obsession.
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