A review by dcliz
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman

4.0

I was looking for a quick, light read and Vacationland did not disappoint. I appreciated Hodgeman's sharp, witty writing and self-awareness. Although I've never lived in Brooklyn, I could envision exactly the Park Slope Food Coop that he has never joined because he has "heard too often of the shamings that are doled out if you request that they stock the morally incorrect brand of hummus." Perhaps I enjoyed it more because I grew up in Connecticut, not too far from the part of Massachusetts described in the book, and spent summer vacations in Maine, and know exactly why you'd want to be able to buy that brand of hummus, morally incorrect that it may be.