![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I did grudgingly crack this book open, it didn’t take me long to realize that I should have done so weeks before. I’m always skeptical of non-fiction, because it can be so painfully dry. I had the good fortune to start reading Hawaii while I was actually living on Maui, My mom sent me this book without telling me she had (nice move, Mom), and when it arrived, I was a little bit skeptical. For every hundred pages of thrilling ocean voyage, there’s another hundred pages on the economy of pineapples. It’s fascinating, it’s captivating, it’s vividly written – but it’s also incredibly dense. It’s a thousand onion-skin pages of tiny, tiny words, crammed full of history and conjecture. That being said, it took me almost a month to finish James A. The unabridged Les Mis is one of my favorites. Let’s be clear: Big books don’t scare me. ![]()
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