#sentenceoftheday #booksky #historicalfiction #ethanrutherford #novel #seafaring #whaling #amreading "Some ships I knew caught and ate seal, but I myself have no taste for that tricky creature."

#sentenceoftheday #northsun #ethanrutherford #amreadinghistoricalfiction #whaling #booksky "The whalemen they have come to like are the old hands, sun-colored, with wild beards and roosters tattooed on their feet."

#sentenceoftheday #ethanrutherford #northsun #amreadinghistoricalfiction #whaling #booksky "Yet as soon as they'd reached the islands, the sea had gone glass."

#sentenceoftheday #ethanrutherford #northsun #seafaring #amreading #booksky #historicalnovel "She holds their twin daughters like sacks of small potatoes."

#sentenceoftheday #booksky #amreading #northsun #ethanrutherford #whaling #historicalnovel "He'd wandered about the ship like a big, rooting potato."

Twelve miles on the bike, almost entirely on protected bike paths. I took a little time to sit in the shade and read my wonderfully upsetting book recommended to me and purchased from Evening House Books. Buffalo has been great to get to know this summer.

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Megha Majumdar’s New Novel Is Named National Book Award Finalist

Full Story: indiawest.com/megha-majumd...

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