Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
"Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard, leaving behind her shoes, shawl, and a note. The note reveals she's a disliked member of a writers' group onboard for a retreat, and the group is split on whether this is in-character for her. The captain decides not to investigate, saying he'll notify American authorities when they reach their destination. But Meg's father decides they need to look into whether there was possible foul play while the prime suspects are all stuck on board. It'll be a race against the clock to solve this mystery before they make the necessary repairs and return to shore."--… (lisätietoja)
Meg Langslow’s grandfather has taken a job on a cruise ship for one voyage presenting nightly lectures on animals and the environment. Primetime, the cruise line, has offered a discount, so Meg and several other family members have joined this cruise to Bermuda. However, things don’t go as planned. The first morning as sea, the passengers wake up to find that the ship is dead in the water. Then, as the captain is briefing the passengers on the situation, another crew member bursts into the meeting to say that one of the passengers has gone overboard. It appears to be suicide ( )
Meg and her extended family are on a cruise to the Bahamas. When the ship breaks down and a passenger jumps overboard on the second day of the cruise, Meg starts to investigate the death as the ship's overworked crew are preoccupied with repairing the ship. ( )
I read this book last year, but 2020 was a year full of cracks, and this book’s reading record and thoughts slipped through one of them. I re-read it last night to brush up my memories.
I think the thing I love the most about Meg Langslow, after 26 books is her sheer competence. Her family is quirky, and the mysteries are always good, but there just doesn’t seem to be any crisis that Meg, and the members of Caerphilly can’t handle with astonishing efficiency.
Terns of Endearment takes place on an educational wildlife cruise. Her grandfather has been lured into a series of on-board lectures, but soon after the ship sets sail, a series of events leaves the ship stranded in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Dead bodies, sabotage, and on-board illnesses slow down the Langslow family not a bit and soon enough they’re sorting out the crew, the passengers and the mysteries. It should be over-the-top, but it isn’t. It’s inspiring. I want to be Meg when I grow up. ( )
So I found all the (supposedly) semi-autobiographical info about writers really interesting... and then the cruise ship broke down, in the middle of the ocean, and people started getting sick... and it was just, unfortunately, not quite the escapism I wanted. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
"Do you really think there's room for all this luggage on the boat?"
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
"That's me," I said under my breath. "Brilliant, if only by accident."
"There's a longstanding scientific tradition of never doing that," Caroline said. "Once the name is approved, the world is stuck with it. Although some people are arguing that it's foolish to insist on observing a tradition that endangers an entire species." "So who decides the name?" Rose Noire asked. "Whoever discovers the species," Caroline said. "It has to follow a set of rules, of course. And as I said, it's not always an honor. Some researchers at Cornell recently named three slime-mold beetles after a bunch of politicians. Not sure that was intended as an honor." "David Attenborough has a dozen species named after him." Grandfather sounded curiously testy. "Including a dragonfly and two spiders." "How many--" I began. I was intending to ask Grandfather how many species were named after him, but suddenly remembered that this was a sensitive issue. "How many things were named after Hitler?" I asked instead. "Just the blind cave beetle and a very primitive Paleozoic fly that was already extinct when they named it," Caroline said. "I would rather like a spider," Grandfather mused. "Quite the most extraordinary people have spiders. Buddy Holly. Johnny Cash. Bono. Angelina Jolie..." "Nelson Mandela and Terry Pratchett have spiders," Caroline pointed out. "And Edward Abbey." "Penn Jillette," Grandfather continued. "Harrison Ford." "That should have been a snake," Caroline suggested. "Given how much Indiana Jones hated them." "Alan Alda." Grandfather went on. "Pancho Villa. Lou Reed. David Bowie. John Lennon. Bob Marley. Neil Young. Orson Welles. Elvis Presley. Pink Floyd. Frank Zappa, for heaven's sake." "The people who are discovering spiders seem very interested in rock and roll," I said to Grandfather. "Perhaps you should form a band." "There are even spiders named after fictional characters," Grandfather said. "Pimoa cthulhu." "John Cleese has a lemur," Caroline said. "Avahi cleesei." "Hmph." Clearly in the throes of acute lemur envy, Grandfather snorted and strode off to stand near Wim and Guillermo.
"Weren't you worried when the Coast Guard ran in?" Janet asked the next morning. "Worried they'd shoot you or arrest you or something?" "A little," I said. "But I figured with the other two rolling on the floor in a puddle of wine and broken glass, trying to choke each other and shrieking things I wouldn't have wanted the boys to hear, I looked pretty sane and trustworthy by comparison. Not to mention the fact that I opened the door and greeted them with 'Thank heavens you're here.'"
We all beamed at each other. Well, except for Grandfather, who was leaning closer so he could inspect the tern. I'd have been afraid the thing would peck out my eyes, but Grandfather's confidence that animals would know he was their friend was usually justified. And when it wasn't -- well, he had the most interesting collection of scars of anyone I knew.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Liar, I thought. But I didn't say it aloud -- I just watched as Grandfather fed another bit of sardine to the expectant tern, stepped forward, struck his most dramatic pose, and basked in the knowledge that dozens of cameras were focused right on him.
"Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard, leaving behind her shoes, shawl, and a note. The note reveals she's a disliked member of a writers' group onboard for a retreat, and the group is split on whether this is in-character for her. The captain decides not to investigate, saying he'll notify American authorities when they reach their destination. But Meg's father decides they need to look into whether there was possible foul play while the prime suspects are all stuck on board. It'll be a race against the clock to solve this mystery before they make the necessary repairs and return to shore."--
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