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Compelling trivia, tidbits make The Sound of the Sea one of Barnett s best books

Go ahead, make me care about seashells.  I don’t take long walks on the beach with my eyes glued to the sand. Shell shops bore me. And lips that touch oysters will never touch mine.   So when I set out to review Cynthia Barnett’s newest book, “Sound Of The Sea: Seashells And The Fate Of The Ocean,” I mouthed a silent challenge to Gainesville’s most accomplished environmental journalist and author.  Make me care. I dare you.  Well played, Cynthia.  Or the CIA’s loony scheme to kill Fidel Castro with a Queen Conch IED.   Do you know why somebody called Sanibel Island a gigantic mortuary?  

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