Driftwood: Stories Picked Up Along the Shore

by: Howard Sivertson

Published by: Lake Superior Port Cities, Inc.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Bright

I enjoy good storytelling, and Howard Sivertson truly has a way with the words. He’s put his talent into the enjoyable stories in Driftwood: Stories Picked Up Along the Shore. And he also painted the glorious pictures that are in the book.

While storytelling is a gift, that gift is made better when there is a passion to the telling. Sivertson provides the passion, the history and charm that make a good book better.

Those of us who live near Lake Superior’s shore know the love the people have for the area. In Driftwood, the reader is given the gift of all the variances of life in that region of the country. There are numerous fabulous stories. Some of my favorites are: “Gathering Gull Eggs on Cloud Island” (this is personal for me), “Dead Reckoning” reminded me of my Norwegian great uncle long gone but not forgotten. “Going Visiting” has all the charm of a Will Weaver story and those readers who long ago had the opportunity to pick raspberries, “Standoff at the Grace Island Raspberry Patch” is a few delightful minutes of ‘what the doctor ordered.’

Sivertson’s Driftwood is the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for parent, aunt, uncle, cousin or friend. It’s a visit to the past; one you’ll want to make often.

Armchair Interviews says: A winner!

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