The Blue Bear

IMPORTANT: If you choose to read this book, do NOT look at the color photos in the middle of the book until after you read it!!! The first and second photo pages are fine, but the third one container a major spoiler! I don't know who's decision that was, but it almost ruined the reading experience for me.


This book started out slowly and leisurely, and I almost abandoned it in the first 100 pages. But then, I thought of the handful of people I've met that are great sailors or hunters, and I thought of how I always felt like they weren't bound by the same laws of time as myself. Their wealth of knowledge required investing the time required for them to disclose it at their pace and with the level of detail they chose.
With that mindset adjustment, I pressed on and was drawn deeper and deeper into Lynn's story.

The fact that this is his first book is almost unbelievable to me. About 75% through the book, a sense of dread began forming and I began subconsciously feeling the remaining pages to see how much was left. I rarely feel that way with a book, but I flipped to the end just to see how many blank or appendix pages were included so I wasn't caught off guard prematurely.

This book will cause cravings, or at least it did for me. It made me crave the outdoors, adventures, solitude, a deep and genuine friendship. It also caused me to consider the passage of time and how loss impacts us.

This is a fantastic book, and I highly recommend reading it as well as giving it my absolute highest rating.