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Gives new meaning to ‘Shoot for the moon’

The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin

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CBR11 Bingo – Travel   The conclusion of The Broken Earth trilogy sees mother and daughter, Essun and Nassun, both setting out on their own journeys to change the course of history. (as this is the end of the series, this is super heavy with spoilers; be ye warned) At the end of book 2, both Essun and Nassun are coming into their full powers and know that to affect the world in the way they see best they need to gain control of the Obelisk Gate. Essun recognizes that the planet’s troubles have been caused by humans long ago […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Phileas Fogg is the most interesting man in the world

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

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Cbr11bingo Travel This classic 1873 novel by Jules Verne was an utter delight! I am somewhat ashamed to admit that this is the first Jules Verne novel I’ve read and that I really knew nothing at all about it when I picked it up. Turns out, that worked to my advantage, as I was on the edge of my seat, eagerly turning each page to see whether Phileas Fogg would win his wager to travel around the world in 80 days. This book is part travelogue and part chase, a description of various exotic parts of the world and a […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Travel History

Topographies by Stephen Benz

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I got an advanced copy to do a review for The Literary Review, and while travel essays aren’t normally in my wheelhouse, this collection was a winner. Benz travels widely from the Florida Everglades to the Moldovan post-Communist landscape, the deserts of the American West and to the streets of Central America. Historically minded, and introspective of both the culture of the landscapes and the people who inhabit them, Benz’ accounts are a vivid and engaging story of overlooked places and history. The collection is divided into two parts, Reading the American Landscape, chronicling Benz’ American treks including the Everglades, portions […]

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7/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Je t’aime

A Year in Paris by John Baxter

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Non-fiction book for Feb 2019 My Book Box. If anyone writes more beautifully about Paris than John Baxter, I’ve yet to read them. This book is supposedly about Paris throughout the year. It loosely follows this (there are some jumps in season, time, and place) as well as a brief history of the Revolution’s desire to change the calenderer. It is best to think of this book as part memoir of seasons of his life in Paris, as well as seasons of Paris. Each chapter is like a meditation. There are interesting little factoids that pop up. Like France’s obsession […]

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3/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

…Nearly every American hungers to move

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck is 58 and he feels like he’s lost touch with America. He used to know his country, even write books about it, but now he’s unsure. The only sensible thing to do, of course, it to buy a customized truck and set out on a ginormous road trip across America ‘where the people are’ and get to know them all again. I, an American writer, writing about America, was working from memory, and the memory is at best a faulty, warpy reservoir. I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees and sewage, seen […]

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3/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Sex and Travel (Emphasis on the Sex)

Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves

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Wanderlust is Elizabeth Eaves’ memoir of her travels from her late teen years to her mid-30s, and like any travel memoir it suffers somewhat from the delusions of grandeur of its main character/author.  The friend who lent it to me did so with the disclaimer that, “she’s a bit pretentious, but aren’t all travel writers?  I think you have to be in order to think that other people are going to be interested in your travel diary.”  My friend is not wrong. I love to travel and so I’m primed to like a good travel memoir- Eat, Love, Pray, and […]

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1/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

A Road Trip with a Dog

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

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I read this due to my Steinbeck kick.  I was a little worried about reading it immediately after The Grapes of Wrath but it was the perfect antidote to my melancholy mood.  This is a travel journey by one of America’s preeminent authors who decided that that he no longer felt in touch with America and her people and wanted to find her again.  Discontented seems to best describe the way he felt with his life when he set off on his journey in 1960 at the age of 58.  I think he may have also been trying to recapture […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Don’t let the cover mislead you. There are no grizzlies on the Appalachian Trail.

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

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I added this book to my TBR the very first day I joined Goodreads in July 2008, so yes I do feel accomplished for finally having read it. And it was a good time! I was a bit worried based on a few reviews I’d read ahead of time that it would be dated, and it was a tiny bit (mostly in some jokes Bryson makes that read a little fatphobic to my 2018 eyes and ears, but would have been absolutely bog standard in 1998). But overall, this read like any other Bryson book I’ve read. He’s an observant […]

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