This book I brought along with me on a cruise as I thought it would be great sea reading. It was less about Mary's adventures and more about her love life. She recounts tales of former lovers. However, I did enjoy the information contained about ships at sea, Coast Guard communications, charting, and porting. I feel like I could talk intelligently about boating now. I enjoyed the few times she delved into friendships, but thought some of her other relationships added a choppy, disjointed aspect to the book.

Fav quote: "There's nothing to mourn. There are wonderful things ahead of us as surely as there are sad ones. What's important is to be alive, to feel these things deeply as they happen because they make us--we are just blood, bone, guts--and the sum of these moments. They become who we are: individuals who are mysteriously flavored by our past; who live every minute with the consequences of who we have loved and who has loved us."

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