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She fell in love with the islands first

The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum

March 17, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So I originally picked this book last year for CBR bingo.  I didn’t get around to it in time though, so I read it this year as my fifth book of the year. We start out with reporter Diana Marcum (the author, duh) kind of floating through life.  She’s not having fun or loving her life.  She’s not entirely happy in her career either. She somehow stumbles across a group of immigrants living in California.  They came from a set of islands in the Atlantic […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #wanderlust, Azores, vacation

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #wanderlust, Azores, vacation ·
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Sex and Travel (Emphasis on the Sex)

Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves

January 18, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Wanderlust is Elizabeth Eaves’ memoir of her travels from her late teen years to her mid-30s, and like any travel memoir it suffers somewhat from the delusions of grandeur of its main character/author.  The friend who lent it to me did so with the disclaimer that, “she’s a bit pretentious, but aren’t all travel writers?  I think you have to be in order to think that other people are going to be interested in your travel diary.”  My friend is not wrong. I love to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #elizabetheaves, #memoir, #wanderlust, travel

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #elizabetheaves, #memoir, #wanderlust, travel ·
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