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It’s Not About Books: Italy

July 25, 2016

It began with sunshine and smiles as my family found each other in the small confines of the airport in Florence and ended with shouts and threats seven days later in the same airport in the dark of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature Tagged: Italy, travel

Arrivederci for Now

July 15, 2016

Happy Friday, readers! No review today because by noon I will be aboard a plane heading to Italy. Yes, the long awaited family vacation has arrived! For the next seven days I’ll be traipsing around ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: books, Italy, travel

The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty

July 13, 2015

diver's

Plenty of people go on vacation to lose themselves but probably not in the way of the narrator in Vendela Vida’s novel The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She lands in Morocco and midway through the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, ecco, literary, morocco, mystery, travel

Heads in Beds

November 30, 2012

Heads in Beds

Jacob Tomsky graduated from college with a degree in philosophy and no idea what he wanted to do. It is summer in New Orleans and before jumping a career and all that entails he decides to take a job ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, Doubleday, memoir, travel

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