NEW COLLEAGUES AT THE LIBRARY
I hope you are enjoying the new contributors to A Traveler’s Library as much as I am.
You have now met five of the current six contributors who are bringing you new reasons to travel and new resources. Kerry talked about Nova Scotia Music on Monday; Jessie talked about Scottish Cultural Travel on Tuesday; I interviewed Jane (Wednesday Matinee) and interviewed Edie (Pet Travel) on Thursday; and Jennifer brought you various aquariums and a children’s book on Family Friday. The will be back the first full week in November.
But wait! There’s more! Brette Sember, prolific author and blogger about both legal matters and food, will be bringing us Tasty Travel on Tuesday in the middle of each month. Next week on Tuesday, I’ll interview Brette, but you can get a sneak preview at her life and work on the Contributor’s Page.
PRIZE WINNERS
Nobody e-mailed me a protest, so either you didn’t notice or you didn’t care–but I did not announce any new winners here last week, after Casey Freedland chose The Tapestry Shop, a story in the time of Robin Hood.
But since we had a new post EVERY DAY last week, I thought I’d just wait a few days and announce all the winners at once.
Remaining books are:
On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe (non fiction, the Balkans)
The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith (non fiction memoir, Syria)
Culture Smart! China. And just to spice things up, I’ll throw in today’s novel, Silk Road
The Floor of Heaven: a historical novel (real people) in Alaska’s early days
A Trick of the Light :mystery novel (Audio book, Montreal)
Contact Creede : a historical novel set in Creede, Colorado.
Our Daily Bread: dark novel based on real events in Nova Scotia
The Civilized World: Short stories about Africa
Chronicles in Stone: historical novel about wartime in Albania
At least two of these will wind up in my best travel-inspiring books of 2011 list, so leave a comment, subscribe to the blog, or tweet a message with @pen4hire in it. And I should be ready to announce the complete list of winners by October 20.
COMMENT LUV REWARDS YOUR COMMENTS
I also hope you will enjoy the new, improved Comment Luv below, which allows you to do even more than the old version. You can still post your latest blog post or a favorite site, but after you have visited and commented three times, retweeted, or posted the url of the blog post on Facebook or hit the Google Plus button, you can choose between many possible links to add to your comment. Don’t forget to add your twitter handle as well. If you are a blogger and want to get the new premium Comment Luv for your own blog, here’s a clickable link:
RANDOM POSTS
Now this is really fun! Look over to the right hand column–at the top, just below the Search by Category box. A random post displays. Click on the title and one of 434 Destination posts will pop up and a the title of a post on a new destination will be suggested. Discover new travel books. Plan trips. I can see where this could be addictive. What can you find? Where will you go?
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Please leave a comment and then come back later to enjoy this week’s posts that visit China and India. The next two weeks will focus on Scary books (travel mysteries set in Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Colorado for your travel library), and Scary places (In Arizona, Louisiana and Ohio) in honor of Halloween.
Every time I am here, I just leave my home and go to “Scotland”, this week “China”. Your articles are amazing and I do enjoy them:) Keep that way.
Very nice! Greetings to the new contributers! -r
have been loving the new changes and contributions.
Pen4hire, if you have read Chronicles In Stone, what did you think of the translation? My mother has been begging me for two decades to read Kadare’s novels, but now that I finally find myself up to the task I only have access to English translations, most of which are re-translated from French…
By the way, exciting times here at A Traveler’s Library 🙂 This site has become indispensable to me as both a source of information and inspiration, and as busy as I sometimes get I always take the time to savour your posts. May the changes lead your site happily onward and upward!
Hi Danielle: You made my day with your testimonial. I think you’re going to like having some fresh breezes blow through the library.
As to the translation of Chronicles in Stone, I didn’t ever think about the translation–and that’s the way it should be, don’t you think. It seemed lyrical and flowed just fine.
I didn’t ever think about the translation–and that’s the way it should be, don’t you think.
Agreed! That is good news.
A warm welcome to the new contributors. I’m also looking forward to your scary book choices.