| This book describes the journey of Theodore Roosevelt on an unknown river in South America after his loss of his final run for president.   I don't know how the majority of the expedition ever made it out alive. The sad part is that many of the expedition's tourbles were due to very poor planning, or rather a lack of planning to begin with. Roosevelt, it seems, thought it was not going to be that big a deal. He was mistaken. Thanks, Tim, for recommending it to me. |
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Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
09 September 2011
The River of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon by Candice Millard
12 August 2011
What did YOU read on your vacation this summer?
1 Did you take a vacation this summer?
2 Did you read while on your vacation?
3 Did you read more or less than you usually do on vacation?
4 What type of vacation did you take?
5 Does the type of vacation you take affect the amount you read?
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1 We just finished a family vacation with our five children.
2 We took a family vacation that was focused on relaxing and being with our kids and extended family members. The biggest focus of this trip was to spend time with our kids and also not to feel driven to do anything in particular.
3 I read an average or less than average amount during this vacation since there were a lot of people to interact with and that was a point of the trip.
4 We did several things during this trip.
We toured the campus my husband attended for college; the University of Cincinnati.
We attended a Reds game in 95F heat.
We ate ribs at a popular ribs restaurant on the riverfront in Cinci.
We stayed in a new quaint little cabin in Lake Rudolph Campground in Santa Claus, IN and visited Holiday World and Splashin' Safari four times. (I just couldn't take a book or my NOOK to the parks with us. It wasn't practical.)
We visited with eleven members of my extended family who all live in Indy but came down to join us at the campground for a couple nights. That meant I got to visit with one of my brothers, Duffy, which meant that my love of discussing books, films, and tv shows was nurtured a bit!
Certainly any time we were driving I was likely to be reading as much as I was able. Most nights were finished with me reading at least some. Two glorious nights, maybe three, I was found on the covered deck of our cabin in my comfortable lawn chair/lounge, with a book and my LightWedge reading light.
My Favorite Reading Light
5 The type of vacation I take affects the amount I read. I could have read a lot more if this had been a beach vacation (love those). It was not an extremely active vacation which was nice but the action (them park and waterpark) prevented more reading.
2 Did you read while on your vacation?
3 Did you read more or less than you usually do on vacation?
4 What type of vacation did you take?
5 Does the type of vacation you take affect the amount you read?
~~~
1 We just finished a family vacation with our five children.
2 We took a family vacation that was focused on relaxing and being with our kids and extended family members. The biggest focus of this trip was to spend time with our kids and also not to feel driven to do anything in particular.
3 I read an average or less than average amount during this vacation since there were a lot of people to interact with and that was a point of the trip.
4 We did several things during this trip.
We toured the campus my husband attended for college; the University of Cincinnati.
We attended a Reds game in 95F heat.
We ate ribs at a popular ribs restaurant on the riverfront in Cinci.
We stayed in a new quaint little cabin in Lake Rudolph Campground in Santa Claus, IN and visited Holiday World and Splashin' Safari four times. (I just couldn't take a book or my NOOK to the parks with us. It wasn't practical.)
We visited with eleven members of my extended family who all live in Indy but came down to join us at the campground for a couple nights. That meant I got to visit with one of my brothers, Duffy, which meant that my love of discussing books, films, and tv shows was nurtured a bit!
Certainly any time we were driving I was likely to be reading as much as I was able. Most nights were finished with me reading at least some. Two glorious nights, maybe three, I was found on the covered deck of our cabin in my comfortable lawn chair/lounge, with a book and my LightWedge reading light.
My Favorite Reading Light
5 The type of vacation I take affects the amount I read. I could have read a lot more if this had been a beach vacation (love those). It was not an extremely active vacation which was nice but the action (them park and waterpark) prevented more reading.
02 July 2011
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
I enjoyed this book though it wasn't quite what I expected. It was fun and light reading and taught about a culture with whom I was not familiar. I just bought the sequel. Getting Stoned with Savages. His writing style is one I enjoy.
The book follows Troost through two years of life on a South Pacific island; Tarawa, an island of the Republic of Kiribati. He headed there with the belief that it was a hopelessly romantic thing to do...
What he really found was disillusionment: bugs, heat, danger...you name it. I still laugh out loud when thinking of the bug incident he wrote up in one of his books.
Here's a bit of the blurb from the back of the book:
"He and his stalwart girlfriend, Sylvia, spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).
If you've ever though of moving to a tropical island or you've just had any really, really bad vacations...you might enjoy reading this book.
(I read this in Jan 2007 and did not note whether it includes any gratuitous sex or language.)
Troost's follow-up project is "Getting Stoned with Savages" in which he chronicles his time on Vanuatu and then Fiji.
The book follows Troost through two years of life on a South Pacific island; Tarawa, an island of the Republic of Kiribati. He headed there with the belief that it was a hopelessly romantic thing to do...
What he really found was disillusionment: bugs, heat, danger...you name it. I still laugh out loud when thinking of the bug incident he wrote up in one of his books.
Here's a bit of the blurb from the back of the book:
"He and his stalwart girlfriend, Sylvia, spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).
If you've ever though of moving to a tropical island or you've just had any really, really bad vacations...you might enjoy reading this book.
(I read this in Jan 2007 and did not note whether it includes any gratuitous sex or language.)
Troost's follow-up project is "Getting Stoned with Savages" in which he chronicles his time on Vanuatu and then Fiji.
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