Comments on: Love and Travel and Books http://atravelerslibrary.com/2009/02/04/love-and-travel-and-books/ Books and Movies To Inspire Travel Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ms.N http://atravelerslibrary.com/2009/02/04/love-and-travel-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-4185 Ms.N Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:44:47 +0000 http://atravelerslibrary.com/?p=281#comment-4185 I can't believe this cateogry isn't flushed with more options! May be its too perfect a tale - what you went to this exotic place and also found love? :) I recently read an article on an in-flight magzine, a chic-lit author asking for romance-on-travel stories. think she may be working on a plot herself! I would suggest a Georgette Heyer or a Daphne Du Maurier ... not exactly travel, though! I can’t believe this cateogry isn’t flushed with more options! May be its too perfect a tale – what you went to this exotic place and also found love? :)

I recently read an article on an in-flight magzine, a chic-lit author asking for romance-on-travel stories. think she may be working on a plot herself!

I would suggest a Georgette Heyer or a Daphne Du Maurier … not exactly travel, though!

]]> By: pen4hire http://atravelerslibrary.com/2009/02/04/love-and-travel-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-3966 pen4hire Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:01:28 +0000 http://atravelerslibrary.com/?p=281#comment-3966 Richard: I think you have a strange idea of romance. Fade Away looks like a good road trip book, though. Richard: I think you have a strange idea of romance. Fade Away looks like a good road trip book, though.

]]> By: Richard Mussler-Wright http://atravelerslibrary.com/2009/02/04/love-and-travel-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-3916 Richard Mussler-Wright Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:05:37 +0000 http://atravelerslibrary.com/?p=281#comment-3916 How about Dante's La Vita Nuova for romantic poetry? Romantic Book: Jim Dodge Not Fade Away I have to think about most romantic city. ;^) Thanks for sharing! Richard How about Dante’s La Vita Nuova for romantic poetry?
Romantic Book: Jim Dodge Not Fade Away

I have to think about most romantic city. ;^)

Thanks for sharing!

Richard

]]> By: Travler's Bro http://atravelerslibrary.com/2009/02/04/love-and-travel-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Travler's Bro Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:45:50 +0000 http://atravelerslibrary.com/?p=281#comment-66 Regarding your question about impressions of modern Greece, it may be true that at times (hopefully rare) when you're there you can't wait to go home so you can miss it fondly. Perhaps everyone but Xerxes has felt this way. It's hard to romanticize any place when you're actually there. As the seedbed of Western civilization, there is no country more romanticised than Greece. It is our idealized other Eden as we like to think it was in the best days of Pericles when Athens was a "shining lamp on a hill." The lamp may now be smog-dimmed and the hill littered, but in absentia it glows golden. That's sufficient. Regarding your question about impressions of modern Greece, it may be true that at times (hopefully rare) when you’re there you can’t wait to go home so you can miss it fondly. Perhaps everyone but Xerxes has felt this way. It’s hard to romanticize any place when you’re actually there. As the seedbed of Western civilization, there is no country more romanticised than Greece. It is our idealized other Eden as we like to think it was in the best days of Pericles when Athens was a “shining lamp on a hill.” The lamp may now be smog-dimmed and the hill littered, but in absentia it glows golden. That’s sufficient.

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