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Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway nearing end. See bottom of post for today’s prize. And it is time to hint at the Final Grand Prize, to be given away next Friday, January 29–it is a stylish way to carry all those travel books.
France on Friday
Book: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten [...]
Destination: Greece
Book: A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou
Anyone who is tuned in to Greek politics in the past fifty years, has heard the name Papandreou. Son Nicholas, who started as an economist, left the “family business” to become a writer and share his short stories and poetry with the world. His novel, A Crowded Heart [...]
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Destination: Finland
Book: A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Finnish Winter Retreat
Guest Author Michele Simeone
If you’re tired of hearing about summer, how does a good dose of Finnish winter sound?
It was during my second year in Finland that my friend surprised me with a copy of A Winter Book .
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Destination: Finland
Book: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
A Journey into the Finnish Summer
by guest author, Michele Simeon
Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Tove Jansson has been called the “laureate of small things” for her astounding ability to capture beauty, darkness, and meaning in deceptively simple details. Jansson’s novel The Summer Book follows an elderly woman and her [...]
Author Shelley Seale talks about her Six favorite books for travel to India
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Destination: New Orleans
Book: New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner
As I indicated in an earlier post, William Faulkner did not spend a great deal of time in New Orleans. He was a young writer switching from poetry to fiction writing when he took an apartment in what is now Faulkner House Books. He wrote short [...]
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