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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
I adore this book. It opened my eyes to a different sort of life. What a great adventure life can be! I hope that someday I can live a life that is as fulfilling to me as her life is to her...until then I'm going to work on getting to that point!
Fascinating accounts of nomadic travels. Rita does a great job at including a balance of story and culture to her tales. Vivid descriptions without being laborious to read. This book will definitely give you Wanderlust & make you hungry for local cuisine.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
I didn't always like the author's point of view, her actions or non-actions to the things she encountered and I was thoroughly pissed off with the fact that everywhere she went she was treated as one of the "males" in the society / culture she was in (eating with the prince while his wives ate separately, etc.) but insisted upon her bond with her "sisters" and women of the world.
But I do love travelogues, and this one is great in terms of describing cultures, out of the way places and providing information on various ways and organizations that help travellers out.
5 stars for the mention of SERVAS alone :-)
But I do love travelogues, and this one is great in terms of describing cultures, out of the way places and providing information on various ways and organizations that help travellers out.
5 stars for the mention of SERVAS alone :-)
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
When someone first gave me this book I wasn’t all that excited about it. I had some preconceived notions given the basic premise: rich and affluent middle aged woman travels world after divorce, meh. Eventually though I started reading. We’ll first throw out the whole rich thing. While she and her husband were quite successful, after the divorce she took very little and was only able to preserve a traveling lifestyle by living in Third World countries where she could live significantly more cheaply. This author is also not traveling high class. She stays plenty of places that, if I’m being honest with myself, I probably wouldn’t.
I also found her writing style very interesting. It was both matter-of-fact and succinct while still also having a melodic narrative. I’m infinitely curious by certain little details she decided to include while other stretches of time were painted in broad strokes.
This is a really great book and I recommend it. It’s also pretty distinctly from the 90s. Some of her travel is post 2001, but she doesn’t dive into the changes and I would love to hear her take on the difference in world travel post 9/11.
I also found her writing style very interesting. It was both matter-of-fact and succinct while still also having a melodic narrative. I’m infinitely curious by certain little details she decided to include while other stretches of time were painted in broad strokes.
This is a really great book and I recommend it. It’s also pretty distinctly from the 90s. Some of her travel is post 2001, but she doesn’t dive into the changes and I would love to hear her take on the difference in world travel post 9/11.
As I read other’s reviews on this book, I feel like they went into it with the wrong expectations. To me, the book is not about the places she went but what she learned along the way. It’s a memoir, not a study of indigenous cultures. Others have said that you can tell it’s written by a children’s book author. I feel that makes it more relatable. The way she explains her thoughts and feelings, emotions during different experiences, it drew me in and allowed better understanding because she was using common language.
This book came to me at such a topsy turvy point in my life. I had just left my husband of six years and was feeling utterly lost. Who am I? What do I do now? What do I want to do with my life? I’m 26 but I feel both 17 and 67 at the same time. Aimless and trapped, feeling too old to make big changes and so uncertain of myself. Her experience is different and similar in some ways to mine. But reading how she picked herself up made the most of the upheaval has given me hope. It’s dared me to dream again. If a woman in her late 40s has the courage to turn her life completely upside down, then what is holding me back but myself?
This book came to me at such a topsy turvy point in my life. I had just left my husband of six years and was feeling utterly lost. Who am I? What do I do now? What do I want to do with my life? I’m 26 but I feel both 17 and 67 at the same time. Aimless and trapped, feeling too old to make big changes and so uncertain of myself. Her experience is different and similar in some ways to mine. But reading how she picked herself up made the most of the upheaval has given me hope. It’s dared me to dream again. If a woman in her late 40s has the courage to turn her life completely upside down, then what is holding me back but myself?