Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea (LeapSci) Book

I'm torn between two and three stars here. This is more of a collection of essays than a book; Fisichella tells individual incidents well, but leaps between them with little connective tissue or thematic linkage. And which incidents he chooses to focus on often puzzles me; he spends more time deriding a graduate student's unprofessional choice of presentation attire, waxing eloquent on her belly button piercing and similarity to a stripper, than he does on, say, his wedding. He's also the least introspective memoirist I've encountered. When he gets going about science and his outsider's view on academia, though, he has some interesting things to say I haven't heard elsewhere.

Read because I heard Fisichella's wife speak once and thought she seemed pretty interesting. Having read this, I conclude that she's more interesting than her husband--a point I don't think he'd argue. I hope she writes her own memoir some day.