LOVE your blog!!!! and love Jetsetter, and have been a member of gilt since they opened :)
That sounds like one fantastic job :)
you are one fabulous chikitie :)
I blog about South America, North America, Europe and Asia (so far), backpacking tips, new destinations and many popular destinations. Travelholica - The Best Addiction!
If you want to read about someone who has been traveling and living abroad since April 2006, check out my two blogs and daily travel tips at: www.babyboomerstaveling.com. The blogs are: This ExPat Life (on Mondays, currently from China) and Baby Boomers Traveling (on Fridays, currently featuring Egypt), and the daily travel tips are, well, daily! Hope to see you there,
Hi. I'm Suzi. I blog about books and how they are related to places you might be traveling to. So, if you are looking for a novel set in a particular place then Packabook Travel Novels is the place to find them. And here's the link for the Packabook Blog
If any of you have blog posts discussing a particular place and would like to be able to recommend some novels for your readers to consider which are set in that place, then please make contact. I would be happy to help out in exchange for a link and a line about Packabook on the post...
As Packabook grows, I am looking to include a lot more content about locations themselves and recommend bloggers for each country - so there are lots of opportunities to cross promote down the track...
Suzi,
Very good idea (Packabook). I have read a couple of the books in the Brazil category, City of God and Dona Flor, though I usually read nonfiction.
Anyway, good idea and I will check back and use some of your recommendations on my next trip to South America.
By the way, you might think about adding some James Baldwin to the France section. And, lots of the Harlem Renaissance writers set their works in Paris (and lived there).
Thanks David - I will look into them. I always love to get new recommendations - am aiming for it to be the best ongoing up-to-date list on the web, and the more actual recommendations the better!
If you prefer non-fiction, there are also non-fiction recommendations for each country (Under the True Stories and Histories, Guide Books and Other Stuff categories to the right of each country page) - I am just not focusing on them as much right now. Later on, they will get a proper re-vamp!
Feel free to send me a blog post explaining the Packabook Travel concept and I will post it on my blog, My blog focuses on travel to Brazil. You can send the post to rio_nut@yahoo.com. I look forward to the post.
And, I will, in turn, send you some book ideas for Brazil and Rio de Janiero, in particular. You already have, "The Brazilians" and "The Brazil Reader"! I have read those, too. I will explain the significance of any of my suggestions so that you can decide.
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