The Montreal Gazette's Mike Boone
likes the idea of
Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure. In a column the day the book was launched, he wrote:
"It is tempting to make a piscatorial comparison:
In Making Waves, Mary Soderstrom's latest book, the Portuguese are packed like sardines into 171 pages.
Soderstrom's style, however, isn't dense, claustrophobic or oleaginous. Making Waves is not a bite-sized condensation of 600 years of history but rather an appreciation of people who have fascinated Soderstrom since her 1950s childhood in San Diego."
He goes on : " Making Waves includes a timeline. But the meat of the book is taking readers to particular places and explaining the locales' significance in Portuguese history. And if you want to skip ahead, the chapter titled Sex begins on Page 78. "
Well, yes, the story contains some steamy stuff, and not just because a lot of the Portuguese adventure took place in warm climates. It will be interesting to see just how much other readers are hooked that part...
