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Gotta Read: ANOTHER GREAT DAY AT SEA

Another Great DayWe’re always on the look out for reviews that make our mouths water. Laura Miller did it for us yesterday in Salon with her review of Geoff Dyer’s Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, (RH/Pantheon), a book we neglected to include in our highlights for the week. Not only did she make us want to read that book, but every other book Dyer has written.

As she says, the very concept is brilliant,

The notion of installing a writer of Dyer’s baroquely sensitive and self-conscious temperament aboard an American aircraft carrier stationed in the Persian Gulf is obviously a stroke of genius. In fact, Dyer’s two-week writer-in-residency stint on the USS George H.W. Bush was his own idea…

She wanders off for a paragraph about the book not being what she had expected, a failing of many reviewers, but quickly gets it back on track and offers great stuff for readers advisors to steal.

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2 Responses to “Gotta Read: ANOTHER GREAT DAY AT SEA”

  1. Wendy Bartlett Says:
    May 20th, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Kirkus named this as one of their “9 quick reads” yesterday too.

  2. Annette Jones Says:
    May 22nd, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    I would seriously read anything that Geoff Dyer has written, his Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It is one of my fave travel memoirs of all time.