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Title: Maybe it's because I'm an Eskimo...
Review: It's only protein! Get over yourselves! That was the most interesting section of the book, when Una goes on board a whaling ship, and they are sunk by a BLACK whale (Una works in the Crow's Nest and actually sees Moby Dick before she even meets Ahab). Silliness.I will say it has one of the best first lines ever: Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last. Good line. Too bad the rest wasn't as engaging! Too many characters with too little characterization. And what's with that eagle at the lighthouse? I didn't believe that scene at all, and I should have stopped right there. It's a feminist treatise with some nice writing in between. The end made me want to gag.All in all it made me want to read "Moby Dick". Nice illustrations. Give it fifty pages and see what you think. Some people in our book club loved it! Go figure.
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