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Jan. 2nd, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildThe internet is, sometimes, a beautiful thing.
So, I was reading Neil Gaiman's blog, and someone had written him an email, giving him a link to where Frommer's had reccomended Gaiman's book Neverwhere in a list of books that inspired travelling--the actual title of the article is, Our Favorite Books that Make us See the World, and it's over here.
One of the things they mentioned was a book talking about Amelia Earhart's hometown. One of the bridges there has a blue light atop it. I'm guessing it's been there since she was alive, and apparently it's there to guide her home. For reasons I can't really explain, that really really got to me. Gods only know why.
Also, someone mentioned Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight, as a good book specifically about Africa. I have that one somewhere, I bought it at Costco after remembering I'd read good reviews about it. It's a fantastic book, and very sad in places. That book is almost a definition of the idea of "a sense of place." I'd loan it out if I knew where it was. *lol*
One of my favorite books about travelling, is No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, by Ayun Halliday (who also writes the zine East Village Inky, and has a regular column in Bust magazine, if you care). It's hysterical, as is most of her writing. It also gives a person the feeling that no matter how bad things can get while you're in another country, you could probably always tell yourself that at least now you have a really great story.
I need to read The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
Anyway. Back to your regular LJ.
(PS: Changed my username. In accordance with my icon. Tee hee hee.)
So, I was reading Neil Gaiman's blog, and someone had written him an email, giving him a link to where Frommer's had reccomended Gaiman's book Neverwhere in a list of books that inspired travelling--the actual title of the article is, Our Favorite Books that Make us See the World, and it's over here.
One of the things they mentioned was a book talking about Amelia Earhart's hometown. One of the bridges there has a blue light atop it. I'm guessing it's been there since she was alive, and apparently it's there to guide her home. For reasons I can't really explain, that really really got to me. Gods only know why.
Also, someone mentioned Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight, as a good book specifically about Africa. I have that one somewhere, I bought it at Costco after remembering I'd read good reviews about it. It's a fantastic book, and very sad in places. That book is almost a definition of the idea of "a sense of place." I'd loan it out if I knew where it was. *lol*
One of my favorite books about travelling, is No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, by Ayun Halliday (who also writes the zine East Village Inky, and has a regular column in Bust magazine, if you care). It's hysterical, as is most of her writing. It also gives a person the feeling that no matter how bad things can get while you're in another country, you could probably always tell yourself that at least now you have a really great story.
I need to read The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
Anyway. Back to your regular LJ.
(PS: Changed my username. In accordance with my icon. Tee hee hee.)
