Writing for Good Reading Magazine, Helen Gildfind comments,
Running with Pirates is an elegantly crafted and finely detailed memoir in which Gíslason recounts his trips to Corfu as a vulnerable teen and, decades later, as a father. The book is carefully structured via parallel narratives that express and exploit memoir’s inherent interest in the tension between the storied past and the remembering present.
Meanwhile, Schooldays Magazine observes,
This memoir of an adventure at the age of eighteen really does have it all...This is an enjoyable memoir for all to read, unputdownable. It is also one that anyone whose teens are planning on taking a gap year, or adults planning one, should read. It is also good reading for parents developing harmonious relationships with their teens.
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| Corfu Town Harbour, September 2014 |
