"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Monday, August 12, 2024

TTT: Travel books -- From Here to There


Top Ten Tuesday: From Here to There -- Books that Involved Travel

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
From Ethiopia to New York

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
From Spain to Chile via France

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
From Portland, Oregon to Iran


Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from California to Washington State

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Minneapolis, Minnesota to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
From Georgia to Congo (in 1959)

Mosquitoland by David Arnold
From Ohio to Mississippi

Less by Andrew Sean Greer
From San Francisco to Mexico, Germany, France, Morocco, India, and Japan 

The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
From Barbados to Panama

Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
From Idaho to Rome



-Anne

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