The Camel Book Drive gives books and money to northeastern Kenya where books arrive on the backs of camels. International Literacy Day.
Destination: American Road Trip Book: American Fugue by Alexis Stamatis I like books that are dense with ideas and expressed poetically. American Fugue by Greek author Alexis Stamatis fills the bill. Here’s my review from Amazon: American Fugue’s author Alexis Stamatis confounds genres as he writes an innovative literary novel that combines with a thriller [...]
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Destination: Ireland, Oklahoma Movie: Far & Away, Directed by Ron Howard Stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise look so young in this 1992 film. The story takes a snooty rich girl and a poor peasant lad from Ireland, where they are escaping what was known as the land wars of Ireland* to Boston** and finally [...]
In Which I Have to Choose a Favorite Book Given the opportunity to read about the haunts of writers like T. E. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Ayn Rand, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemmingway, the Beats of San Francisco and more famous authors, I turned immediately to… What can I say? The thought of visiting the little piece [...]
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Click on this link to take a two-minute survey. I’m about to launch a virtual road trip, and you can help by answering a question about the place you live. BONUS: I’ll be giving away two popular books, An Irreverent Curiosity, and The Last Aloha, to randomly drawn NEW e-mail subscribers during this survey month. [...]
Put Your Place on the Map Have you read a book or movie that really nailed your state, your region, your country? The place where you live? What reading or viewing do you recommend to people who want to see what your territory is like? Add your choices to A Traveler’s Library. Pin it
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