The title of this post paraphrases a reviewer’s quote on the back cover of Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana. […]
Travel and Adventure
The cold winter weather has me thinking about travel, vacation, and escape from the snow! This week’s storytime was all about travel and adventure.My first […]
Paging Your Way Across the World
Even if you are not planning a trip in the future, you owe it to yourself to order these books and take the trip of a lifetime from the comfort of your favorite chair.
Culinary Reading Delights — A Noncaloric List
Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.
New Orleans and Life After Katrina
People all around the world were affected by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 as it unfolded in all its ugliness and ferocity on television, […]
Warning — Cannibals, Snakes, Certain Death Ahead
Most travel books don’t contain flesh eating cannibals, disease causing insects or poison arrow attacks. But, David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale […]
A Journey Not to Be Forgotten
When you discover that Susan Gilman, author of the exotically titled Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, is already an accomplished and published writer you may have trouble […]
Reading Culinary Memoirs — A Guilty Pleasure
How sinfully delicious it can be to read culinary memoirs. The stories are entertaining, often quite humorous and the descriptions of the food may be mouth watering but, luckily, not caloric. […]
If You’re Happy and You Know It
At first glance, the Jamaicans seemed to be some of the happiest people we’d ever met. They were all smiles as they sold those “Jamaica, […]