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The White Mary – Book Review
The White Mary by Kira Salak
Release date August 5, 2008
“The White Mary” is the story of journalist Marika Vecera and her quest to find war correspondent Robert Lewis in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Now, a story simply about a grueling trek through the jungle has the potential to get a bit monotonous: mosquitoes, thorns, illness, etc. To combat this, Salak let Marika have flashbacks to her prior work in war zones, her admiration of Lewis, and her relationship with Sebastian, a Boston psychologist.
This book had an interesting subject matter and was pretty well written, but I honestly found myself pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. I never had to struggle to pick it up, but it sure wasn’t a struggle to put down either. The whole thing was just solidly ‘eh’. I do think that Salak has promise as a writer, and I would be interested in reading some of her nonfiction about her own adventures in journalism.
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This is the one you were reading on your wedding day. Brian and I think you should post the pictures of you reading while you were waiting to get married.
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Yes, please post those pictures! I would love to see you in your wedding dress – especially if you’re holding a book. What a great picture that would be!
This book has sounded good on other sites, but I also trust your judgment. I’m going to keep it on my TBR, but there is plenty of other stuff that holds more promise.
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Unlike you, I could not put this book down. I felt as though the book consumed my thoughts from the moment I picked it up until I finished it 3 days later (I have 2 young children so reading time is limited). I would like to see the pics though.
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I have a copy of this book now that someone was nice enough to give me. Too bad it wasn’t more to your liking but it’s nice to see an honest review. I’m hoping I like it but we’ll see.
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