February 19, 2011 – 10:22 am
Shop Indie Bookstores I’m just finishing up reading Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra. A much different book than I was expecting. It reads more like a text book and the long-g-g-g chapters and the need for a dictionary at times left me exhausted. A Pulitzer Prize winner I’m sure because of the research that went into it. [...]
February 17, 2010 – 7:46 pm
Thought I would pass this along for any of you who have dreamed of following in the steps of Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas, Jane Austen, TS Eliot and Bram Stroker. I just recieved a flyer in the mail from GoAhead Tours promoting their 11 day (including airfare) Literary Tour of London, [...]
September 22, 2009 – 6:42 pm
My friend Claire just returned from a Guernsey, Ireland, France cruise. She’s kindly allowed me to post her photos of St Peter Port where The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society novel is set. If this inspires a trip, you might want to check out Annette Henry Tours specializing in theme guided tours of [...]
This is the final post on what Nancy Pearl (Book Lust, More Book Lust, Book Crush) recommended last month at a library sponsored event on summer reading. I previously posted her suggestions for Airplane Reads, Mystery/Spy/Thrillers, and Book Club Reads. The following books fall into the Armchair Traveler genre. Pearl announced that she is working [...]
Last night I was one of a hundred adoring fans that turned out to hear our very own former Seattle Public Library librarian, Nancy Pearl, do what she does best, tell us whats good to read. The focus on this evening’s event was summer reading or as quoted in The Seattle Times piece promoting the [...]
Fans of Swedish author Henning Mankell are in for a treat. On May 10th, PBS will begin airing the Wallander series which first aired on BBC One last November and December. Each three 90 minute episode is based on one of the ten police mysteries that make up the Wallander series. The series was produced [...]
Tomorrow I’m headed off to San Francisco to spend the weekend at the beach with ten plus fabulous friends. It’s an annual event. We call ourselves the Stinson Beach Babes. Each year I go, I return home with aching cheek muscles from all the talking and laughing. Our friendships go back some 30 years. Back [...]
Hearing about the recent devastation from Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar earlier this month has made me reflect back on Amy Tan’s novel “Saving Fish From Drowning“. This is travel fiction at its best. A delicious yarn about a group of tourists that travel from San Francisco to Burma and unwittingly get themselves kidnapped into [...]
It’s day five of “Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?” The clue read: Many come here to see the natural wonders but the national symbol is for your eyes only. This of course refers to the fact that in the spring of 1958 author Ian Fleming visited the Seychelles for an extended holiday: seeking [...]
