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HOW THE CANADIAN RAILROAD SHAPED CANADA This book is an essential if you’re a rail fan, or particularly if you’re planning one of those long journeys from the populated East of Canada to the wide open spaces of the west. However, the best way to read The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 might be on a long, long railway journey, because it is a long, long book.TRAVEL MEMOIR
Destination: Siberia, Russia. Book: White Fever by Jacek Hug0-Bader, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (published in Polish in 2009, but NEW in English translation, 2012) Despite the fact that Jacek Hugo-Bader writes the kind of travelogue that makes you feel that you’re right there with him, and have met a constellation of interesting (if sometimes revolting) people, White FeverTHE HORSE BOY
About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy JULIA CHILD AND HER CATS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WHY VASCO DA GAMA OF PORTUGAL SAILED AROUND AFRICA TO Afonso de Albuquerque, a successor to da Gama, sailing on the Portuguese King Manuel’s mission to “usher the East into the Christian fold,” had big, bold ideas. He once wanted to divert the Nile in order dry up Egypt. He proposed stealing the body of the Prophet Muhammad and exchange it for the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.POTTERY ISLAND
48 AMERICANSTYLE • . February 2009 February 2009 • AMERICANSTYLE. 49. clay into rough rounds. He then smoothes them into pots and bowls . on an electric-powered pottery NEW DALRYMPLE BOOK EXPLORES RELIGIONS OF INDIA A Hindu holy man. Book: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (NEW June 2010) William Dalrymple is still trying to explain India. He is well equipped to do that because in addition to accolades as a travel writer, he is praised for his scholarship and has lived part of each year in India for a couple ofdecades now.
6 PRESIDENTS WITH SURPRISING CONNECTIONS TO U. S. NATIONAL Destination: U. S. National Parks. Yellowstone National Park. With Presidents’ Day coming up next Monday, I was interested when I received a press release about various U.S. Presidents and their connections to National Parks. I thank Xanterra, the lodging company, for giving me this idea, and for supplying some of the information.. The President responsible for starting the ball rolling LET’S HIT THE ROAD VIA THE BLUE HIGHWAYS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy CONTACT | A TRAVELER'S LIBRARY VMB in Kastro, Sifnos Island, Greece. Freelance Writer and Blogger at A Traveler’s Library. Questions, please contact me by e-mail at: Vera Marie Badertscher. PLEASE NOTE I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING BOOKS FORREVIEW.
HOW THE CANADIAN RAILROAD SHAPED CANADA This book is an essential if you’re a rail fan, or particularly if you’re planning one of those long journeys from the populated East of Canada to the wide open spaces of the west. However, the best way to read The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 might be on a long, long railway journey, because it is a long, long book.TRAVEL MEMOIR
Destination: Siberia, Russia. Book: White Fever by Jacek Hug0-Bader, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (published in Polish in 2009, but NEW in English translation, 2012) Despite the fact that Jacek Hugo-Bader writes the kind of travelogue that makes you feel that you’re right there with him, and have met a constellation of interesting (if sometimes revolting) people, White FeverTHE HORSE BOY
About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy JULIA CHILD AND HER CATS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WHY VASCO DA GAMA OF PORTUGAL SAILED AROUND AFRICA TO Afonso de Albuquerque, a successor to da Gama, sailing on the Portuguese King Manuel’s mission to “usher the East into the Christian fold,” had big, bold ideas. He once wanted to divert the Nile in order dry up Egypt. He proposed stealing the body of the Prophet Muhammad and exchange it for the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.POTTERY ISLAND
48 AMERICANSTYLE • . February 2009 February 2009 • AMERICANSTYLE. 49. clay into rough rounds. He then smoothes them into pots and bowls . on an electric-powered pottery NEW DALRYMPLE BOOK EXPLORES RELIGIONS OF INDIA A Hindu holy man. Book: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (NEW June 2010) William Dalrymple is still trying to explain India. He is well equipped to do that because in addition to accolades as a travel writer, he is praised for his scholarship and has lived part of each year in India for a couple ofdecades now.
6 PRESIDENTS WITH SURPRISING CONNECTIONS TO U. S. NATIONAL Destination: U. S. National Parks. Yellowstone National Park. With Presidents’ Day coming up next Monday, I was interested when I received a press release about various U.S. Presidents and their connections to National Parks. I thank Xanterra, the lodging company, for giving me this idea, and for supplying some of the information.. The President responsible for starting the ball rolling LET’S HIT THE ROAD VIA THE BLUE HIGHWAYS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WHY VASCO DA GAMA OF PORTUGAL SAILED AROUND AFRICA TO Afonso de Albuquerque, a successor to da Gama, sailing on the Portuguese King Manuel’s mission to “usher the East into the Christian fold,” had big, bold ideas. He once wanted to divert the Nile in order dry up Egypt. He proposed stealing the body of the Prophet Muhammad and exchange it for the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. ARIZONA: THE VALENTINE STATE ARIZONA, STATE OF ROMANCE. Arizona celebrates the centennial of its statehood on February 14, because one hundred years ago a lovesick rancher took a detour to see his sweetheart. The story may not be true, but the romance is undeniable. This is the true part. For nearly twenty years, the citizens of Arizona Territory struggled to provethat
TRAVEL PHOTOS–HOTEL MONTELEONE About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy TOP PICKS FOR BOOKS: IRELAND AND SCOTLAND Mozart’s (Jeanne’s daughter) favorite books about Ireland was a wonderful historical fiction series that starts with Under the Hawthorne Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna. Jeanne, Soultravelers3. A Sense of Belonging to Scotland by Andy Hall. And my battered, years-old copy of Let’s Go: Ireland, probably, said Kerry Dexter,Music Road.
WHAT HAPPENS AT DISNEY WORLD AFTER THE FAMILIES GO HOME FAMILY TRAVEL By Jennifer Close. Destination: Disney World, Florida. Book: The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark (2009) by Ridley Pearson If you have been to Disney World at night, you know how exciting it can be. Tinker Bell flies across the park and LET’S HIT THE ROAD VIA THE BLUE HIGHWAYS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WOMEN OF ISLAM IN BOOK AND PERFORMANCE About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy DRINKING IN OHIO WITH DICKENS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy THRILLER’S HERO WANTS PEACEFUL LIFE IN BARCELONA Destination: Barcelona. Book: Lying Crying Dying (2002) By Dominic Martell. (Newly published in e-book format, 2012.) Although LYING CRYING DYING has been in print a few years, the three-book series that it launched has just gone mod with new e-book editions. Dominic Martell deserves to be better known than he is as a spy/thriller writer, and I’m amazed that this book never made it as aPOTTERY ISLAND
48 AMERICANSTYLE • . February 2009 February 2009 • AMERICANSTYLE. 49. clay into rough rounds. He then smoothes them into pots and bowls . on an electric-powered pottery CONTACT | A TRAVELER'S LIBRARY VMB in Kastro, Sifnos Island, Greece. Freelance Writer and Blogger at A Traveler’s Library. Questions, please contact me by e-mail at: Vera Marie Badertscher. PLEASE NOTE I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING BOOKS FORREVIEW.
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Kerry Dexter, Music Monday. A sun filled kitchen in Nashville, a midnight singing session in Glasgow, the mist covered mountains of Donegal, historic Club Passim in Massachusetts: these are a few of the places Kerry Dexter has followed folk, country, classical, and Celtic music and the work of singers and songwriters during the last two decades. . Music and poetry are always part of her trave HOW THE CANADIAN RAILROAD SHAPED CANADA This book is an essential if you’re a rail fan, or particularly if you’re planning one of those long journeys from the populated East of Canada to the wide open spaces of the west. However, the best way to read The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 might be on a long, long railway journey, because it is a long, long book. SPAIN WEEK: LIVING WITH THE FISHERMEN SPAIN WEEK. After two reviews of mystery thrillers set in Spain, I thought you might appreciate a quieter look at a little fishing village by a classic travel writer. In the 1950’s Norman Lewis went in search of “vanished times” in the small Spanish fishing village of Farol, north of Barcelona. He found a land more like the Spain of JULIA CHILD AND HER CATS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WHY VASCO DA GAMA OF PORTUGAL SAILED AROUND AFRICA TO Afonso de Albuquerque, a successor to da Gama, sailing on the Portuguese King Manuel’s mission to “usher the East into the Christian fold,” had big, bold ideas. He once wanted to divert the Nile in order dry up Egypt. He proposed stealing the body of the Prophet Muhammad and exchange it for the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. NEW DALRYMPLE BOOK EXPLORES RELIGIONS OF INDIA A Hindu holy man. Book: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (NEW June 2010) William Dalrymple is still trying to explain India. He is well equipped to do that because in addition to accolades as a travel writer, he is praised for his scholarship and has lived part of each year in India for a couple ofdecades now.
LET’S HIT THE ROAD VIA THE BLUE HIGHWAYS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, QuincyPOTTERY ISLAND
48 AMERICANSTYLE • . February 2009 February 2009 • AMERICANSTYLE. 49. clay into rough rounds. He then smoothes them into pots and bowls . on an electric-powered pottery 6 PRESIDENTS WITH SURPRISING CONNECTIONS TO U. S. NATIONAL Destination: U. S. National Parks. Yellowstone National Park. With Presidents’ Day coming up next Monday, I was interested when I received a press release about various U.S. Presidents and their connections to National Parks. I thank Xanterra, the lodging company, for giving me this idea, and for supplying some of the information.. The President responsible for starting the ball rolling CONTACT | A TRAVELER'S LIBRARY VMB in Kastro, Sifnos Island, Greece. Freelance Writer and Blogger at A Traveler’s Library. Questions, please contact me by e-mail at: Vera Marie Badertscher. PLEASE NOTE I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING BOOKS FORREVIEW.
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Kerry Dexter, Music Monday. A sun filled kitchen in Nashville, a midnight singing session in Glasgow, the mist covered mountains of Donegal, historic Club Passim in Massachusetts: these are a few of the places Kerry Dexter has followed folk, country, classical, and Celtic music and the work of singers and songwriters during the last two decades. . Music and poetry are always part of her trave HOW THE CANADIAN RAILROAD SHAPED CANADA This book is an essential if you’re a rail fan, or particularly if you’re planning one of those long journeys from the populated East of Canada to the wide open spaces of the west. However, the best way to read The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 might be on a long, long railway journey, because it is a long, long book. SPAIN WEEK: LIVING WITH THE FISHERMEN SPAIN WEEK. After two reviews of mystery thrillers set in Spain, I thought you might appreciate a quieter look at a little fishing village by a classic travel writer. In the 1950’s Norman Lewis went in search of “vanished times” in the small Spanish fishing village of Farol, north of Barcelona. He found a land more like the Spain of JULIA CHILD AND HER CATS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, Quincy WHY VASCO DA GAMA OF PORTUGAL SAILED AROUND AFRICA TO Afonso de Albuquerque, a successor to da Gama, sailing on the Portuguese King Manuel’s mission to “usher the East into the Christian fold,” had big, bold ideas. He once wanted to divert the Nile in order dry up Egypt. He proposed stealing the body of the Prophet Muhammad and exchange it for the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. NEW DALRYMPLE BOOK EXPLORES RELIGIONS OF INDIA A Hindu holy man. Book: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (NEW June 2010) William Dalrymple is still trying to explain India. He is well equipped to do that because in addition to accolades as a travel writer, he is praised for his scholarship and has lived part of each year in India for a couple ofdecades now.
LET’S HIT THE ROAD VIA THE BLUE HIGHWAYS About Vera Marie Badertscher. A freelance writer who loves to travel. When she is not traveling she is reading about travel. When she is not reading or traveling, she is sharing with the readers of A Traveler's Library, or recreating her family's past at Ancestors In Aprons .She has written for Reel Life With Jane, Life is a Trip and other websites. . Also co-author of a biography, QuincyPOTTERY ISLAND
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Kerry Dexter, Music Monday. A sun filled kitchen in Nashville, a midnight singing session in Glasgow, the mist covered mountains of Donegal, historic Club Passim in Massachusetts: these are a few of the places Kerry Dexter has followed folk, country, classical, and Celtic music and the work of singers and songwriters during the last two decades. . Music and poetry are always part of her trave A TRAVELER'S LIBRARY Book: Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast Published 2009, by Kevin Myers. Destination: Belfast, Northern Ireland. Watching the Door, a memoir of a journalist drawn to the unrelenting tragedy of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, is as much about a young man’s coming of age as it is about the battles (more commonly murders) he was covering in NEW DALRYMPLE BOOK EXPLORES RELIGIONS OF INDIA A Hindu holy man. Book: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (NEW June 2010) William Dalrymple is still trying to explain India. He is well equipped to do that because in addition to accolades as a travel writer, he is praised for his scholarship and has lived part of each year in India for a couple ofdecades now.
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A LONG JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE AND OVERLAND TO THE ANTARCTICApril 28, 2017
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_THE BLACK PENGUIN _by Andrew Evans This fascinating memoir can be read two ways. It gives us a marvelously detailed picture of an overland journey from Washington D.C. to the Antarctic. But it is also a part of a series called “Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies”, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Naturally, for A Traveler’s Library, I am inclined to focus on the journey. However, the author’s personal story is undeniably riveting. Both succeed because of his complete honesty and his ability to observe details of life while he is living it. (If you’ve never tried it, you may not realize how difficult it is to pull thatoff.)
The title and cover photo emphasize the Antarctic and the black penguin, a rare bird that doesn’t fit in with the tuxedo-clad King and tiny Adélie penguins crowding the icy land. That unique all-black bird makes an appropriate metaphor for Andrew Evans, who grew up as a devout Mormon, but was expelled from his beloved church because he is gay. First they tried to reform him, and he tried to conform, but he could not change any more than the melanistic penguin could choose to look like his brothers. Although Andrew Evans has found a partner he loves and a satisfying life, there is still a hole where the routines and rules and rituals of the church used to be. However, if you are looking at this as the memoir of a travel writer, the cover and title are somewhat misleading. The book is not _about_ the Antarctic. The continent stirred the curiosity of the young, geography-obssessed boy and became a lifelong dream. Now it is the goal of the journey but does not take center stage until the very endof the book.
As travel literature, the fascination of _THE BLACK PENGUIN_ lies in the difficulties Evans has undertaken by choosing to travel only by bus all the way12,000 miles through the Southern USA, Central America and South America. He has already achieved the travel writer’s Holy Grail–an assignment from Keith Bellows at National Geographic Magazine. When Bellows asked if it was even possible to travel all the way by bus, Evans fudged the truth and answered with an enthusiastic ‘yes.’Maybe not.
But the rides on buses varying from sleek, modern air-conditioned marvels to Central American “chicken buses” provide a different view of the countryside along the way, and allow Evans to introduce us to an array of interesting characters. The long bus ride also provides the writer ample opportunity to ponder his life and gracefully weave thoughts about Andrew Evans, former Mormon and gay man into the story of Andrew Evans, travel writer on an adventure. There is plenty of danger along the way, from anticipated highway robbers and drug cartels to washed out roads along dangerous cliffs, car ferries turned back by wild seas. Evans presents these dangers with skillful suspense. At the end, the suspense builds on the time honored question of time. Will he get to the port in time to board the National Geographic exploration ship that will take him to hisdestination?
The writing is skillful. The story is compelling and well worth yourtime.
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A BOOKFUL OF QUESTS
April 11, 2017
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_INSPIRED JOURNEYS: TRAVEL WRITERS IN SEARCH OF THE MUSE_, EDITED BYBRIAN BOULDREY
DESTINATIONS: MANY
When publishers inquire whether I want to review a book of travel essays, I generally have said “No, thanks. My readers prefer a place-specific book.” _INSPIRED JOURNEYS _breaks that rule. Fortunately, the publisher, University of Wisconsin Press, sent it without asking in advance. It sat on my shelf for a while, because I didn’t think I would like it much. Essay collections are generally so uneven that I hate wading through the chaff to get at the fruit. (to mix an agricultural metaphor). Plus which, the title was off-putting–all a bit to woo-woo for me. But one day I picked it up and started reading. I am glad I did. The seventeen essays, so different from each other in subject and style, have in common outstanding writing. No, of course, I did not love them all equally, but I can honestly say there were none that I thought was a total waste of time. I am not sure how Brian Bouldrey was able to pull off getting so many excellent writers in one book, but I appreciate his effort. As for that woo-woo title–the book does have a strong theme, but the theme is hard to explain (as is evident in the divergence between title and subtitle.) Each writer, in essence, is on a pilgrimage, or a quest. Some are trying to connect with a favorite writer. “Little Log Houses for You and Me” by Kimberly Meyer relates a trip through Laura Ingalls Wilder country. “The Way of the White Clouds” compares writerTrebor Healey’s life to Jack Keroac–some actual travel, but lots of travel through life. We even go on a trip to visit the history of the world’s worst poet in “The Terriblest Poet” by Brian Bouldrey, the editor of the volume. The more traditional pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago in Spain gets a look in “Buen Camino” by Sherman Apt Russel. A particularly beautiful and well-structured piece by Russell Scott Valentino, called “An Accidental Pilgrimage,” visits family history in the Azores. He quotes a Russian writer friend as saying, “travel for its own sake is always a search for God.” The quote is just one of things that makes this piece memorable. Many philosophical questions arise from the imperious comment of a border guard in “What means Go?” by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. One thought, common to everyone of us who call ourselves travel writers–“I never know if I’m a writer so that I can travel or if I’m a traveler so that I can write.” “The Chevra” by Goldie Goldbloom taught me about a Jewish ritual I was unaware of. I found the piece to be particularly moving because of the author’s spare, matter of fact style in describing veryemotional subjects.
But I really must stop, even though I have not mentioned every excellent piece of writing in this little gem of a book. I hope you will give it a look.LIKE IT? SHARE!
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MY PERSONAL LIST OF TEN MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKSAugust 26, 2016
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There is a “thing” on Facebook of listing the ten books that most influenced you. Not the greatest books, or the most literary, but those that actually made an impact on your life. When I entered college, as part of orientation, we were asked to list the three books that had most influenced our lives. Not wanting to list the novels I snuck of my Mother’s shelf so I could read the sex scenes, or Mad Magazine, I said, The Bible, Shakespeare and something else–who knows? Liar, liar, pants on fire. When I sat down to list the ten books that honestly influenced me, I found that there was a pattern. Very little fiction. I’ve always read more non fiction. I read hundreds of books while I was writing three times a week at A Traveler’s Library, and most of them fiction. I relish a beautiful turn of phrase and a clever turn of plot. I love characters that come to life. But there’s something pragmatic in my soul that drives me back to non fiction over and over again. The books that demanded a place on this list influenced my several interests: theater, politics, writing, cooking, family. So here they are–with a note on each indicating how they influencedme.
* A children’s picture book that showed children from many countries in their native costumes. Read at six or seven, it made me yearn to see the rest of the world. * A youth book about a young girl who grew up to become an actress, which pushed me toward theater as a college major and ambition to act. No idea what the title was. I went through books so rapidly as a young girl that I did not remember most of them. * _THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER_ by A. A. Milne, which I STILL think is a great read. It shows how artful simplicity can be. * ANYTHING by James Thurber. The Ohio humorist’s books filled a shelf in my family home. My father and mother loved him. We lived in a house in Columbus near the one where he grew up. In college I played a part in the play _THE THURBER CARNIVAL._ His humorous view of the human condition may be a bit sour–and definitely arch (he wrote for the New Yorker, after all) but he still cracks me up. * Dr. Benjamin Spock’s _BABY AND CHILD CARE_. When I had three children in three years and lived across the country from female relatives who might have given me advice, Dr. Spock was my comfort. Although we might disagree with many of his theories today, I am not sure how I could have survived those years without him. * _ATLAS SHRUGGED_ by Ayn Rand. This book appears on many “Best of” lists, but my reason for including it is different. Reading _Atlas Shrugged_ persuaded me that Ayn Rand was nuts and whatever her political beliefs were, mine were the opposite! * _BROTHERS KARAMAZOV _by Dostoevsky. I can’t think of this book without the setting in which I first read it–leaning against a tree on the Mall at Ohio State University. I was awed. We were still in the cold war, and it was a revelation to learn that Russians were humans with universal motivations. It is the only book I have re-read in later life more than once that continues to give me the joy of mental exertion, and admiration for writerly skill. * _BLEAK HOUSE _by Charles Dickens. I’m not sure why this book had such an influence on me. I have read other things by Charles Dickens, but this one just dragged me into its bleak world and Dickens technique of piling on the details stuck with me as a guide to goodwriting.
* _JOY OF COOKING_. My love of cooking came from several sources, but_ Joy of Cooking_ has been influential in teaching me techniques, expanding my repertoire and truly giving me joy. I have worn out three editions of Joy–and still have two–taped together and sad looking specimens on my kitchen shelf. * _THE STORY OF ART_ by E.H. Gombrich. This book was the text for an art appreciation course I took in college. While many of the liberal arts classes stuck with me, and I carried practical knowledge about theater into my theater work, this class and this book provided me with lifelong enjoyment of art. It stuck with me as I traveled in other countries and wandered through museums. It helped me as I co-authored a biography of a Navajo artist. (_Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist_) * I know the list is supposed to be ten, but this addition is not a book. As a teen I was deeply influenced by_ MAD MAGAZINE_–my escape from what I felt were stodgy surroundings of small town Midwest. And if you think my humor is a bit weird at times–blame Mad Magazine. Now it is your turn. Would you care to share ten books that influenced you–not read to impress people or to have conversations at parties–but books that actually nudged you to life decisions?LIKE IT? SHARE!
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