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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:40:03 -0500
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- From: "Esther A. Paris" <esther@RAYSSD.SSD.RAY.COM>
- Subject: _Voyage to the Island_ by R.R.N. (a Finnish name I daren't try to
- spell)
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- Hi Cathy and everyone else on the list! Happy New Year to all!
-
- Hey Cathy, funny you should mention _Voyage to the Island_. Santa
- brought me that book for Christmas! Since I was sick as a dog from New
- Years Eve through yesterday (well, I'm still sick, but...), I got a
- chance to read it. I enjoyed it... found it very interesting. I got
- kind of tired by the writing style after a while: Subject Verb Object.
- Subject Verb Object. Subject Verb Object. Dullsville in that
- category. But I wonder if the Finnish language (her native tongue) is
- less varied than English, or if it was just a reflection on the
- translation itself. So, that was my only comment in the "what I'd
- change if I could have the ideal book" category of things. Otherwise I
- really enjoyed it. Then again, maybe the medicine I was taking or just
- being so sick and tired made me more difficult to please. So what I
- mean is maybe you will think this already IS the ideal book.
-
- And when you read about Jukka, think of me. He and my husband could
- probably strongly identify with each other! Not about boats and
- shipping, but about wives. Ha ha.
-
- I liked the photos in the middle... I wish there had been more of
- them. I'd especially liked to have seen pictures of the flowers,
- birds, wildlife, and shells on the island. We New Englanders don't get
- to see the exotic things that she wrote about unless we travel to the
- tropics ourselves.
-
- I liked Cheryl Heppner's _Seeds of Disquiet_ better, though. In a way
- the two books are quite similar -- both autobiographies of
- life-changing events by late-deafened women who learn to lip-read first
- and sign later.
-
- I wonder why I keep getting drawn to books in this category... is God
- trying to tell me something?
-
- Take care everyone and welcome back from the holidays and vacations!
- Best regards and best wishes for a happy healthy new year from Esther
- Paris at Raytheon Company in Marlborough, MA
-