The Cure for Anything is Salt Water by Mary South
• Very good read.
2007, 207 pgs
Harper Collins, Hardcover
#26 - 04.07.08—04.13.08
• This book caught my eye when I was perusing the library’s ‘just in’ display. I like stories by people who know what they want in life and go for it. The subtitle of this books is: How I Threw My Live Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea.
• Mary was 40 in 2004 when she walked out of a boring meeting, and out of her life as an editor. She wanted to go to sea. She wanted to buy a trawler, live on it and travel. This wasn’t a sudden decision, it had been at the back of her mind for some time. But the day she walked away from her job was the day that dream came forward. She took a nine-week mariner course, and bought a custom designed, steel-hull trawler. She invited one of her classmates, John, to travel with her from Florida, where the class and ship were, to Maine, where her home base would be. It took them three weeks, and though they were opposites on politics among other things, they became good friends. The journey was slow, the trawler averaged 8 miles per hour. They got caught in a couple of exciting storms at sea, met some characters when they docked for the night, and saw some beautiful scenery.
Counts: Harlequin = 23 • Other = 3 • Total = 26
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April Mini Challenge: It’s raining Men
This story doesn’t exactly fit the Mini Challenge. Mary South is gay. She doesn’t expound on it but works her relationships into the story as they had an effect on her life decisions. Odd thing though, after arriving in Maine she met a hunk of a man and fell in love. Their affair lasted several weeks, but their lives were on different paths and they separated.
