I’m very jealous of some of your vacations. Here’s what you had to say on reading-inspired travels (or travel-inspired reading).
Jenny P. wrote: “When we visited the U.K. in 2023, we intentionally included Whitby Abbey on the Yorkshire Coast in our itinerary. My partner and son are big fans of Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula movie, and I love the book. It was awesome to walk around the Abbey and the adjacent St. Mary’s cemetery that helped inspire the novel. I could imagine the shipwreck far below, the hound bounding up and Dracula roaming the grounds around us. I wanted to buy a copy of the book for our son to read and we finally found one in a quaint historic bookstore (Sam Read est 1887) in Grasmere in the Lake District. Our son loved the book, and is actually re-reading it now. I read it every fall as a cozy albeit spooky reminder of our wonderful family trip.”
Jen H. wrote: “Three years ago, my husband and our two sons took a road trip from Chicago to the National Parks in Utah and Colorado. I brought my paperback of Lonesome Dove along with me and it really made that drive across western Nebraska (twice) more interesting, given that a lot of that land is still just that – land. I imagined it was the same view, more or less, that the characters took as they made their way to Ogallala.”
Suju V. wrote: “Heading to South America in a couple of weeks and, as always, gathering up books from the area to read. Starting with Optic Nerve by María Gainza for Buenos Aires, The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal for our day trip to Uruguay, and The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel for Rio. May also add in My Documents by Alejandro Zambra even though we are not going to make it to Chile just because he's such a great writer and it is — luckily for me — a long trip. I love reading this way when I travel.”
See you next week!
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