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CULTURE TRAVEL TUESDAY Destination: The Imagination Book: Cloak, by James Gough (NEW YA Fantasy– 2012) Interview by Dr. Jessie Voigts Have you ever seen a rat on the subway–not a real rat, per se, but maybe a half-rat, half-human? Or have you been tended to by an owl doctor– not a doctor for owls, but [...]
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Destinations: Monte Carlo, Paris, London Book: White Truffles in Winter (a novel) by N. M. Kelby This fictionalized biography of the great French chef, Auguste Escoffier– – is delicious, scandalous, lascivious, luscious… The writing is lush. The author, N. M. Kelby, paints the portrait of a man obsessed with luscious food and delicious women. But [...]
CONTEST IS OVER. The FINAL daily prize in the January Giveaway goes out today. And then I draw for the Grand Prize Winners. (See below) Destinations: Milan, New York City and Brittany in France Book: P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters (originally 2009, but NEW in English– February 2012) by Paola Calvetti I reviewed this [...]
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Destination: London Book: Comfort and Joy (NEW October 2011) by India Knight Cheeky! The little book just elbowed its way up in front of a stack of other books waiting to be reviewed. I could not resist the cheerful red cover festooned with Christmas lights, so after reading a few more serious books, I picked [...]
Destination: Egypt Book: The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Org. publ. 2009; NEW U. S. paperback edition) A tour of the Nile River to Luxor sounds pretty exotic even in the 21st century. But just imagine the adventure and hardship of such travel in the 19th century. The historical travel novel lets us see [...]
Destination: China Book: The Song of the Silk Road by Mingmei Yip (NEW April 2011) They did it again. Got me to read a romance novel by disguising it as adventure travel. is indeed all three–romance (with plenty of sex), an adventuring quest, and travel to exotic locales. Print PDF
Special alert: A timely announcement given the happenings in Libya recently. BBC World Book Club used one of the questions I submitted in their interview of Hisham Matar. You can get the link to the broadcast and a download by going back to the review of In the Country of Men. Be patient, mine is [...]
Note: Please mosey on over to Mara Purl site and see her big rave about A Traveler’s Library. Thanks Mara!! Destination: Central coast, California Book: by Mara Purl I am reading What the Heart Knows in a pdf copy that was supplied to reviewers by the publisher. It is a combination mystery/romance/contemporary novel set in California, [...]
Destination: Albania Book: Chronicle in Stone (org. 1971, NEW paperback edition) by Ismail Kadare This amazing novel by a former Man Booker Prize winner brings to life Gjirokastër, a city on the southern edge of Albania, near the Greek border. The events during World War II in this city provide a microcosm of the shifting bands of conquerors [...]
