September 25 – October 2 is officially Banned Books week 2010. Each year new books are challenged and/or banned across the country for reasons such […]
Travelling with The Lunatic Express
The title of Carl Hoffman’s The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes comes from an African railroad […]
From New York to a Harem
One might assume that Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren would be filled with descriptions of unbridled sex and promiscuity. While those […]
Celebrating the Worst of Travel-The Titanic Awards
Just the name of this book gives an inkling that this will not be your normal travel book: The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim is based on an interesting and unusual […]
The Innocent Found Guilty
After reading two books this month dealing with unjustly convicted and incarcerated Americans,(one set in Nicaragua and the other in California) I found it disturbing to find that […]
More Than a Culinary & Travel Memoir
Paula Butturini’s culinary and travel memoir, Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, is much different from the norm. She […]
Bikes, Boats, Buses & Trains
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World by Seth Stevenson follows Stevenson and his girlfriend as they quit their jobs, give up their […]
The Grass is Not Always Greener as a Vanderbilt
This is the book for you if you’ve ever been jealous of someone born with a golden spoon in his or her mouth. Dead End Gene Pool: […]
