Taramauri is a very large island man who is actually a woman and who boards our Plover mysteriously in the night. Two rats and a warbler with a broken wing are along for the ride, as are snails and countless barnacles and other sorts of sea life that cling to boats. All this flora and fauna have opinions, of course, as do the oceans and the sky and the land. Oregon can be very proud. Brian Doyle has a new book is about travels on a small retrofitted fishing craft, The Plover, named after a nondescript little bird that is nonetheless a tough traveler of great distances. The protagonist sailor Declan, a minor character in Doyle’s earlier Mink River, sets out from the Oregon coast, heading west. Far west. Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is an island, my butt, he thinks. I am that very man... So that’s where I’m coming from, those are my very emotional, experience-based responses to ‘The Plover.’

I wonder what would make me and people like me feel more a part of what he’s writing? Am I the only one who feels this way? I don’t know. I just know it’s true for me. I haven’t told him yet, and I’m sending this review to him, so he’ll see it. Later, This writer also makes a list of all the sea books that he has read, So I put them on my to read list and hope they're better than this book. Next he was listing all the items he took on his boat and he had 5 fishing rods. I remember the rods because he did not know why he had so many. Then he talked about the items that were floating on the ocean. A seal skull Wrapped up in a net. Women's items that you can find in a restroom. I imagined a plane flying over and opening up the trap door in the bathroom. I was actually prepared to credit this book with another star as I read from the middle to the end of this book. The story was fine, kind of sweet at times. Then Doyle introduces a brand new (connected to nothing) character at the end of the book that (inexplicably) manages to impact the main character.

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This means that you can use Plover to chat on Facebook, write in Microsoft Word, browse the web, control your media, use a terminal, fire off keyboard shortcuts, open and close programs, navigate with arrow keys, write code, or anything else you could do with a regular keyboard, but at potentially much greater speeds! Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 46, Vol. 5, p. 42.

Piping Plover – This little bird lives along the coasts of North America. Despite its small assize, the Piping makes impressive migrations across multiple states every year! Just like sea turtles, Pipings return to the same beaches year after year to reproduce. Some common food items include snails, worms, flies, shrimp, crabs, and more. Each species eats different types of food, based on what is available in their region. Plover and Human Interaction This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) I think Doyle is better suited as a short story, poetry, essay writer. Although, who am I to say that I don't have any real credentials for making such a judgement. If you are drawn to words, Brian Doyle's Song to the Pacific will prove a delight. If you are drawn to the ocean, it will be even more so. His writing exuberance is evident from the first chapter as words leap over and over each other like porpoises plying the playful sea.One of the things about Brian’s writing is how he tears words apart and bends them to make them fit together. It kind of reminds me of doing puzzles with my mother. My mom had a great deal of brain damage and she needs to be taken care of now. I do many puzzles with her to pass the time. She enjoys it but she doesn’t do them like she used to. She’ll take a puzzle piece and tear it if she thinks the piece ought to go somewhere and she doesn’t like it. I try to stop her. I tell her it’s not right. She won’t listen. She puts the puzzle together the way she wants. What comes out sometimes is all her. Definitely not what the box advertised. A shaken up image, a word Picasso. A puzzle poem. I could easily criticize the book for a leaky plot, but who needs a plot with such writing as this? Doyle is not afraid to make up words; to indulge in bouts of Realism, Romanticism, or Magical Realism if it suits his writing mood; to have birds, animals, and fish talk; to wonder about life and death and the meaning of our short cosmic streak across the heavens; to do, in short, as he pleases without worrying about formulas and conventions and reviewers and, who knows, book royalties and such. Nope. Just Declan and his favorite, memorized Edmund Burke speeches, thinking and talking and piloting as they see fit.

I liked ‘Mink River’ but I liked ‘The Plover’ more. I understood and got Declan more than I got the religious protagonists of ‘Mink River.’ As much as I might envy the close-knit community of Mink River, I’d never be accepted. I’d be on the outskirts. I’d be whispered about. I think they’d pray for me, that I’d ‘get better’ or ‘find my way.’ They’d always give me sympathy and not the respect that my fighting to be alive really deserves. There would be an ultimate ideal they’d want for me and because I wasn’t living that and am still not living that, will probably not ever live that, I’d never be a part of ‘Mink River.’ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol.5. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. p.94. Mountain Plover – Unlike most of these birds, which usually live along beaches and shores, Mountain Plovers live in meadows and fields in high elevations. However, they do not live in the mountains, but rather the foothills and tablelands. These little birds love to nest in prairie dog towns! They usually have moderately long legs, and short beaks. The largest species is less than a foot long, and most weigh just a few ounces. Interesting Facts About the Plover

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I loved this book. I fully recommend it. Brian is in love with books and words and anybody who loves books and words should go out and read this book. You've got a plot. Good guys, bad guys. A touch of danger. Multiple threads gradually coming together. In short, a story that I want to hear.