The Great American Road Trip
Destination: New York City, New York
Book: Charming Billy (1998) by Alice McDermott
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Naturally, Music Road will have some great Irish music for our road trip today.
This passage is from an NPR NewsHour interview just after Alice McDermott won the National Book Award for Charming Billy. McDermott said:
Being Irish-American, [...]
Destination: Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Book: Their Backs to the Sea(2009) by Margaret Randall
(review copy supplied by Wings Press, San Antonio)
In her journey to Easter Island, the well-traveled Margaret Randall, came to a place more remote than any she had visited or lived in before. The introductory stanzas of Their Backs to the Sea, imagining [...]
Destination: Sri Lanka
Book: Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka, (2010) by Adele Barker
(Book provided for review by Beacon Press)
When American professor Adele Barker spent a year in Sri Lanka, she had already lived for a long period in Moscow, where she studied Russian literature, and traveled outside the U.S. many other times. [...]
Continue reading about Not Quite Paradise: A Cultural Travel Book
Destination: Provençe, France
Movie: The Grocer’s Son (Les Fils de l’epicier)(2008)
Some time ago, a reader recommended this movie, and it finally made it to the top of my Netflix list. Thank you, whoever you were–stand up and take a bow for introducing The Grocer’s Son.
When I thought about why I enjoyed this movie, it became [...]
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The Great American Road Trip
Book: We’re There Rhode Island (2005)by Elizabeth S. Grumbach
The subtitle says it all: Games, Puzzles and Fun Facts for Children as they Explore the Ocean State.
We’re There Rhode Island invites filling in the blanks, map reading, coloring, puzzle solving and (shhhh!) learning.
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Destination: Italy
See the entire video here,
and read more about Italy……
Congratulations are due.
PEN New England honors Elyssa East for Dogtown as best non-fiction set in New England. The relevant part of the press release is below. Just look at the great company that Elyssa is in!
You can see our take on Dogtown, the first inspiring travel literature in our Great American Road Trip Series.
The Great American Road Trip
Destination: New Hampshire
Book: The Good, Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, by Sy Montgomery.
Where would we be without librarians?
Destination: North America
Book: Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America (publisher The Vendome Press 2008) Originally published in French by Editions du Chéne (2008)
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