Current Literary Wish List
As I wandered around Barnes and Noble last night, I found myself so obsessively compulsively writing down titles of books that I want to read in the near future. You can see from my wish list that I currently am in travel lit mode. Here, then, are my top ten + one (just for the hell of it) in no particular order of priority or importance:
1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Once a Runner by John Parker
3. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
5. Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson (or anything by Bill Bryson)
6. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
7. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
8. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
9. Explorers Guide: Cape Cod by Kim Grant (true, it's a travel guide)
10. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Plus one... 11. Lonely Planet Dublin (yep, another travel guide)
If you have read any of these, or share the same desire to read any of them, do tell.
BTW, I loved The Lost Girls.
1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Once a Runner by John Parker
3. Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
5. Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson (or anything by Bill Bryson)
6. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
7. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
8. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
9. Explorers Guide: Cape Cod by Kim Grant (true, it's a travel guide)
10. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Plus one... 11. Lonely Planet Dublin (yep, another travel guide)
If you have read any of these, or share the same desire to read any of them, do tell.
BTW, I loved The Lost Girls.
Comments
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures by a bunch of women travelers
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
A Walk in the Wood by Bill Bryson
and on a different note:
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter.
Let me know if you want to borrow!
I also read The Geography Bliss and thought it was informative and very entertaining; the author has has a dry, sometimes dark sense of humor. It was one of those books that touches on so many different disciplines that you end up learning a lot from one chapter, one text. It inspired me to read Lost Horizon by James Hilton, which is a quick read that I think you might enjoy.