LANGUAGE/BOOK REVIEW

Words and Phrases Borrowed from the Sea

You’re not just cussing like a sailor, you’re talking like one, too.

I love David Grann.

Not personally, since I’ve never actually met him, although I’m completely open to the idea. I love his writing. All of it — and there’s not many authors I can say that about, not even *gasp* Stephen King.

It all started with The Lost City of Z and I haven’t been disappointed since.

You know who David Grann is. He wrote Killers of the Flower Moon, the movie version of which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, was directed by Martin Scorsese, and still dropped with barely a murmur of interest.

Dear movie audiences: Not everything on the screen has to blow up or feature somebody who’s blue.

Next in line from the genius of Grann is The Wager, a tale of “shipwreck, mutiny, and murder.”

Grann’s gift to us all is his ability to make us feel that we are there. We are both watching history and experiencing it in real time. And it just happens to be as fun as reading the best fiction novel you could ever imagine.