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Blue Marlin

Lee Smith

Start date: March 4, 2020

Finish date: March 10, 2020

Discussion: A Sneak Peek~Under the Covers

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Mar 08, 2020 Diane S ☔ rated it liked it

3.5 A lightheaded breath of Southern air. Which after reading about murder, gulags and East Germany, I desperately needed.

Our narrator is a young girl, who loves to spy on people. Of course she sees things she shouldn't, one of which affects her own family. As a young child she is cosseted and used to doing whatever she feels. This will change too.

Her observations and descriptions are often amusing, some wise beyond her years. She and her mother share a love of movie and the stars that make them 3.5 A lightheaded breath of Southern air. Which after reading about murder, gulags and East Germany, I desperately needed.

Our narrator is a young girl, who loves to spy on people. Of course she sees things she shouldn't, one of which affects her own family. As a young child she is cosseted and used to doing whatever she feels. This will change too.

Her observations and descriptions are often amusing, some wise beyond her years. She and her mother share a love of movie and the stars that make them. This is a nostalgic time period, when the box office and movie magazines were all the rage. Big stars like Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, whose movie, marriages and divorces were big news.

The little family end up in Key West, under less than ideal circumstances, staying at the, yep, Blue Marlin Motel. What they find there is something that actually happened in Smith's own life.

Autobiographical fiction and s fun read, of a time gone by. Lee Smith describes in her afterward how this book mimicked her own life.

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3.5 A lightheaded breath of Southern air. Which after reading about murder, gulags and East Germany, I desperately needed.

Our narrator is a young girl, who loves to spy on people. Of course she sees things she shouldn't, one of which affects her own family. As a young child she is cosseted and used to doing whatever she feels. This will change too.

Her observations and descriptions are often amusing, some wise beyond her years. She and her mother share a love of movie and the stars that make them. This is a nostalgic time period, when the box office and movie magazines were all the rage. Big stars like Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, whose movie, marriages and divorces were big news.

The little family end up in Key West, under less than ideal circumstances, staying at the, yep, Blue Marlin Motel. What they find there is something that actually happened in Smith's own life.

Autobiographical fiction and s fun read, of a time gone by. Lee Smith describes in her afterward how this book mimicked her own life.

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