Reviews for Life's Little Treasure Book on Love

The average rating for Life's Little Treasure Book on Love based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-07 00:00:00 Aimee Luther Jenkins does a very good job describing coastal folk on the Gulf of Mexico. He so perfectly understands the nature of getting emotionally ready for a hurricane, particularly larger ones: About preparations for Hurricane Andrew (1992): It was a fearful time, but also strangely exciting. Jenkins writing is very readable. No big words. Fish names do not count. I can identify with Jenkins because I too learn through my mistakes. I can also identify with his sometimes having to just nod, smile, and accept that I do not fully understand. But people with good hearts Jenkins understands. He meets people all through the Intracoastal Waterway and up rivers. Sometimes he stays for a few weeks in a community to learn about people, places, history, culture. I read several of Jenkins books years before joining Goodreads. I am glad I read this book and hope to read his China Wall book.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-23 00:00:00 Viggo Austbo Along the Edge of America was my first Peter Jenkins book. I've heard good things about his first book, A Walk Across America, which was one of the main motivating reasons for me to read this. Along the Edge of America is set approximately 22 years after Jenkins walked across America and opens with a man on top of the world. Money was good, wife was fine, children are intelligent and healthy but then It all comes crashing down around his ears with the arrival of the divorce papers. From this deep depression Jenkins finds that it's time for him to go on another adventure. Faced with the obstacles of age and obligations to his family he has to find a non-pedestrian mode of travel. His research and desire for the challenge of conquering a new medium he decides to purchase and travel by boat from the Florida Keys along the Gulf of Mexico. What ensues is a journey of personal growth, reconnecting with his father, and discovering the more subtle history of the south as told by many colourful figures ranging from alligator hunters to former drug smugglers to old southern belles. Along the Edge of America is a eventful and riveting read filled with adventure and peril that comes with the big blue sea. I'd like to read more by Jenkins but I feel like it's a solid first impression of this well established travel writer.