Yesterday Matt toured Laos and today we catch up with him some 5,000 air miles later in exotic Istanbul, Turkey. Discovering good reads set in Laos proved the more challenging. I did manage to come up with one great recommendation from the blog of Christopher Moore absurdest fiction writer of “Stupidest Angel”, “Fluke” and “You [...]
It’s day two of reading along with Matt Lauer. The Today Show and all of it’s viewers found Matt ‘outstanding in his field’ (ha ha) of Tulips early this morning. Lots of great reading suggestions for books set in and around this land of windmills, tulips, Gouda cheese and wooden shoes. For romantic fiction fans, [...]
The Today Show’s, Matt Lauer, is off again for another week of exotic places. Since I’m a big fan of reading novels set in the places I’m visiting, I thought it might be fun to offer up some suggested literary titles set in each of this week’s selected “Where In The World” locations. This morning [...]
So this was the challenge proposed by New York Times columnist Stanley Fish, “You’re at the mystery section of an airport bookstore and the loudspeaker has just announced that your flight is in the late stages of boarding. You have maybe three or four minutes to make a choice. How do you go about deciding?” [...]
February 21, 2008 – 8:50 pm
I plagiarized the title of this piece from Entertainment Weekly writer Michael Slezak. I thought it was too perfect a title to let disappear into cyberspace. It seems everyone agrees that airplane reading needs to be easy, fast-paced, not too intellectually challenging, light in weight and content, in other words…pure escapism. Traveling today usually means [...]
February 19, 2008 – 3:36 pm
Ever wonder who picked up (besides the cleaning crew of course) that just read paperback that you left in the seat pocket of your last flight? Go to Bookcrossing‘s website to register the book(s) you want to set free. Voila, you can now leave a book anywhere in the world and track what happens to [...]
January 18, 2008 – 7:51 pm
For all you older Harry Potter fans, it’s not too late to book a July 2008 Harry Potter vacation. This is the fifth year that HPfan Tours will be whisking fans to Britain to ride on steam locomotive #5972, the train used as the Hogwarts Express in the filming of the Harry Potter movies, private [...]
