A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller | 
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🔹️The Torchwood author thought that the members of the team would have no qualms about sacrificing the life of a child with autism. 🤬
🔹️Frances Mayes showed me that she is an insufferable bitch. Fat shaming, whining, just all around snotty behavior throughout.
🔹️The Hannah Swenson was just bad, lazy writing. I am more mad at myself for not being able to quit reading these.
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#letstraveljuly #wanderlust
I've always had wanderlust and I hope that in my life time I get to see and explore more of the world.
pickI am back home in Oz. I‘m not tired but I can‘t sleep so I thought I might catch up on some Litsy and drink wine. This is my first book for #BackpackAroundEurope. I started with a book that includes many countries as I wasn‘t 100% sure of my route but going with Heathrow as the starting point now. This picture was taken outside our beautiful friend‘s chalet in the Alps. I really hope to return in winter one day @Miss__astrid @JenP
pick#backpackaroundeurope @JenP is running a reading challenge. Come join us. This is my current read as I have started in Heathrow and am heading to France even though I am already physically there. Yesterday I was at this pop up bar in an old tobacco factory in Strasbourg. Go now if you have a chance.
panSo disappointed in this one. I always loved Frances Mayes' writing, but here she is a gloating, whiny bitch. She is constantly insulting strangers she encounters (not to their faces), describing one young single mum as an "albino hippopotamus" for daring to show her large body in a white bathing suit. One chapter (30 of the 417 pages), where she visits Fez, is the only worth reading. ?
:::He holds my nose to something that looks like yellow erasers - the musk gland of the gazelle. "The animal rubs against a tree, and we then gather the gland. It will sent your drawer for two years.":::
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"The women flow in the impossible narrow lanes, a river of color: saffron, burgundy, sage, pistachio, peacock blue threading the crowds, Nile greens and mustard parting, rust, magenta, emerald merging, tomato red, ochre and all the earth colors, the occasional white worn by a woman in mourning."
I haven't loved all of this book, but passages like this remind me of why I love Mayes.
After 3 nights with only about 6 hours combined of sleep, I really think I need a bigger mug. 😩
Armchair traveling.
"The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter."
?It is a #CruelSummer not having any major travel plans.
I can comfort myself living vicariously through the travels of one of my most favorite lady authors, Francis Mayes. Her words and prose are like pure sunlight to savor.
#JuneTunz #FrancisMayes #Vacation
pickWarning: if you are like me and periodically suffer from severe dizzying bouts of wanderlust DO NOT read this book. Ms Mayes writing is so descriptive you feel like you're there. I was left desperate to travel to all the places see all the things, and eat all the foods. My dream travel log.
