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Cargando... Novel Destinations (2008)por Shannon Mckenna Schmidt, Joni Rendon
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. - A nice idea of highlighting literary connections with various travel destinations that unfortunately doesn’t quite work. But I think this book’s failure is more down to its design and layout than it’s content. It falls between two stools and ends up as neither a literary overview nor a practical travel guide. By organizing the content by genres and jumping from author to author with no clear delineation the information soon blends together. I ended up cherry picking entries by searching for authors in the index. Talking of indexes the book desperately needed a dedicated index of locations mentioned to aid any travel planning with a literary twist. I was hoping that this could be the book to help me figure out a few fun places to visit the next time I’m in New York for a few days, or on a future trip back to the UK. The frustration is that the information is all in there, it’s just not presented in a useful way. ( ) I enjoyed sampling the entries from this book, but it wasn't particularly useful when I went to use it to plan some literary adventures. The layout stymied me when I approached the book from a planning standpoint. I felt like I had to search around quite a bit to find what I was looking for, both when looking for everything for one author and for everything in one geographical region. I wanted to be able to say, "I'm in New England; what can I do that's literary?" but it didn't work that way for me. (It's possible this was due to user error.) I also could have used a book more centered on North America because that's where I am and that's where I plan most (or, so far, all) of my road trips. I liked reading about the destinations in the UK, but having never been there and having no immediate plans to go there, it was difficult to envision the locations. I do plan to pick this one up again as my kids get older and they and I plan trips together. Or at least I hope that's what will happen. My kids and I all love to read, and the whole family loves road trips; literary road trips seem like a logical outcome of all of this reading/road-tripping love, but it's possible I'm not taking into account the feelings of pre-teens and teens about traveling with their mom. This is a wonderful travel guide which provides factual and anedoctal info about writers, their homes around the world, and annual literary celebrations in their honor. There are a few small photos placed next to the names of the homes. Also an excellent resource to learn about favorite authors' backgrounds without making the trip. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. There is a lot of information here. It's an encyclopedia of literary travel spots for about a dozen famous writers. Then, there is information about festivals celebrating individual authors or books in general, libraries, hotels, and pubs authors used in books and/or visited as regulars. Great for daydreaming about retirement road trips. I don't believe the information is extant as I noticed some lesser known museums missing, but it's got a lot of information in a relatively small number of pages. It's definitely worth keeping as a reference if you like literary-related travel. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For the new breed of vacationer who craves meaningful trips and unusual locales, the combination of reading and travel can be a heady mix-especially if you happen to be checking into Hemingway's favorite hotel in Sun Valley, or strolling about Bath's Royal Crescent while entertaining fantasies of Lizzie Bennett and her Mr. Darcy! Cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations-a guide for bibliophiles to more than 500 literary sites across the United States and Europe. The book begins with thematic chapters covering author houses and museums, literary festivals and walking tours. Then, in-depth explorations of author and places take readers roaming Franz Kafka's Prague, James Joyce's Dublin, Louisa May Alcott's New England, and other locales. Peppered with great reading suggestions and little-known tales of literary gossip, Novel Destinations is a unique travel guide, an attractive gift book, and the ultimate browser's delight. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Antiguo miembro de Primeros reseñadores de LibraryThingEl libro Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West de Shannon Mckenna Schmidt estaba disponible desde LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
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