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New Novel for Travel Library: Newfoundland

Newfoundland

Destination: Newfoundland

Book: February by Lisa Moore (NEW 2010)

Sometimes I am amazed at how close my reading edges  to  my life and world events. February, a beautifully lyrical book released in February 2010, bumped up against current events with its retelling of an accident on an oil rig .

In the news as I read the book, an oil rig collapsed in April 2010 and the ensuing leak currently threatens the life in the Gulf of Mexico as well as the tourism trade of the beach towns all along the coast. Tragically, eleven workers are dead and many more injured, but their fate has sunk nearly out of site in the news on the environmental disaster. Continue reading New Novel for Travel Library: Newfoundland