pen4hire on April 19th, 2010

Destinations: Various Book: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens by Jerome Loving (April 2010)

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pen4hire on October 6th, 2009

Destination: Belize Book: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman UPDATE: LIBRARY THING INTERVIEW WITH HOPE EDELMAN A Guest Blog by Julia Drake “The Possibility of Everything — Search for a truer self” In her recent memoir, The Possibility of Everything, acclaimed author Hope Edelman writes, “A person in the act of traveling from one [...]

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pen4hire on May 27th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans, LA, United States Book: Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum Just in case you think this book has something to do with how a tourist survives a Sazerac hangover, forget it. The latest addition to my traveler’s library tells about the lives of real people who survived [...]

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pen4hire on February 27th, 2009

(Since Robert Todd Felton’s computer decided it did not want to blog today—died on a train to New York– I’m filling in with more thoughts on Boston, the subject of our prize book.  Felton will be back on Monday, and we will have the drawing for his travel book on Boston as scheduled, after midnight [...]

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pen4hire on February 10th, 2009

Books: – The Islandman by Tomas O’Crohan – Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayres of Great Blasket Island Destination: Blasket Islands, Ireland Read my guest blog on the books of the Blasket Islands at Info Ireland. And my personal thanks to Info Ireland for allowing me to share this corner of Ireland. See other posts [...]

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