Gelesen: Seamen's Wives
Feb. 22nd, 2011 10:53 amSeamen's Wives by Lennart Johnsson
It was not exactly what I had imagined after reading the first Bookcrossing Journal Entry, though; I expected it to contain more meta and analysis and less interview transcriptions. Despite the fact, that, of course, each voice of the interviewed persons is interesting and important in itself, I found the way these interviews were presented a bit tedious and reiteratively, and it took me quite some time to plough my way through.
Still, I wouldn't have wanted to miss reading it. My main interest was ignited not only by my interest about all things naval, but also by having, since my teenage day, a Chinese penpal from Malaysia who is also a seamen's wife. Her husband is a marine engineer, and from her letters and tales (we met some years back) I have heard about her life's pecularities often enough.
It was not exactly what I had imagined after reading the first Bookcrossing Journal Entry, though; I expected it to contain more meta and analysis and less interview transcriptions. Despite the fact, that, of course, each voice of the interviewed persons is interesting and important in itself, I found the way these interviews were presented a bit tedious and reiteratively, and it took me quite some time to plough my way through.
Still, I wouldn't have wanted to miss reading it. My main interest was ignited not only by my interest about all things naval, but also by having, since my teenage day, a Chinese penpal from Malaysia who is also a seamen's wife. Her husband is a marine engineer, and from her letters and tales (we met some years back) I have heard about her life's pecularities often enough.