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Alone Time book cover: a photograph of an elaborate metal railing with a blurred old city skyline in the distance

Curiosity = Happiness

Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom

January 7, 2023 by KateMc 3 Comments

“Alone, there’s no need for an itinerary. Walk, and the day arranges itself.” In Alone Time, New York Times travel writer Stephanie Rosenbloom travels solo to Paris, Istanbul, Florence, and New York. She shares details about the small, quiet moments that make up the most memorable parts of her trips: Alone, with no one at my side, I was also able to see le merveilleux quotidien, “the marvelous in everyday life”: a golden retriever gazing at a café chalkboard in Montmartre, as if reading the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Florence, Istanbul, new york, non fiction, paris, Stephanie Rosenbloom, travel

KateMc's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Florence, Istanbul, new york, non fiction, paris, Stephanie Rosenbloom, travel ·
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24 Hours of Dark? Hey, Let’s Paaarty!

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

December 28, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Well this was an odd duck.  Weiner, a former correspondent for NPR, decides to check out the common lists for happiest nations on Earth (circa 2008) to see if, indeed, are they?  Some names generally Scandinavian) crop up all the time, and others are less common.  And for good measure, he tossed in one at the opposite end of the spectrum (Moldovia).  I suspect it’s even more grim these days.  Using his skills and connections as a foreign correspondent, he questioned local officials, academics, psychiatrists, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Eric Weiner, I'm with the Moldovian Babushka - "Feevty-feevty", People are different everywhere, travel, What makes a contry tick?, What makes a country happy?

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Eric Weiner, I'm with the Moldovian Babushka - "Feevty-feevty", People are different everywhere, travel, What makes a contry tick?, What makes a country happy? ·
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“My mother had little sense of childhood, and simply saw it as an inconvenient life stage to be got through as quickly as possible.”

Diamonds at the Lost and Found by Sarah Aspinall

November 20, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I bought a lot of memoirs on my vacation this summer and realized when I got home how many are about fraught mother-daughter relationships. I guess I’m working through something, or else I just like reading about dramatic psychological family structures. Either way, Diamonds at the Lost and Found fits in the template of the troubled mother and the put-upon daughter who’s dragged in her wake. This book takes a nested narrative format, where Aspinall simultaneously tells the story of her childhood and adolescence being […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, Britain, mother daughter relationships, Sarah Aspinall, travel

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:132 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, Britain, mother daughter relationships, Sarah Aspinall, travel ·
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Maximizing the Fun while Minimizing the Waits

Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2023 by Seth Kubersky

November 20, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2023 by Seth Kubersky My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s been almost a year since I was last at Disneyland, but my first time planning a solo trip. I had a work conference in Anaheim and decided to tack on some personal days and visit Disney. In preparation for a recent trip to the happiest place on earth, I turned to this guide to help me prepare and ready myself for what to expect. I decided ahead of time that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Disneyland, Seth Kubersky, theme park, travel, Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2023

The Chancellor's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Disneyland, Seth Kubersky, theme park, travel, Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2023 ·
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We are the World

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo

Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony

Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira

Our World: India by Meera Sriram

November 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo, Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony, Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira and Our World: India by Meera Sriram have two things in common. The first, they are awesome books and second, they are about the world aimed at the young reader/listener.  Some are already published, while others are coming within the next few months. The stories follow the culture, language and more in a small format. The authors and illustrators (while the illustrations are similar to each […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:548 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world ·
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“the same thing that we’re always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities”

The Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson (editor)

November 1, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

One of this year’s Read Harder tasks was to read a “Best _ Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice. I had a couple ideas and went perusing through my library catalog to see what I could come up with. And then I saw The Best American Travel Writing 2020 edited by Jason Wilson and the absurdity of these pandemic years meant that this one won out. Consider me intrigued to know what won out in a year that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, essay collection, font, Jason Wilson (editor), non-fiction essays, read harder challenge, travel

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:65 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, essay collection, font, Jason Wilson (editor), non-fiction essays, read harder challenge, travel ·
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