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I do enjoy an Olivia Dade romance! And this one's got a #Voyage thrown in.
@AsYouWish #WickedWords
I do enjoy an Olivia Dade romance! And this one's got a #Voyage thrown in.
@AsYouWish #WickedWords
TOKYO ON FOOT is yet another book I grabbed off the library shelf without realizing I‘d stacked it on Litsy. It‘s a French artist‘s visual memoir of the six months he spent wandering around Tokyo while his partner completed an internship, and I‘m having a great time with it. He came across so many interesting little things the average tourist experience cuts out of the equation.
It was not the amount you gave that counted, but simply the gesture of giving.
"I wanted to settle an old debt with time. I had discovered that walking provided a way to slow it down. The alchemy of travel thickens seconds: those spent on the road passed less quickly than others." #memoir #translatednonfiction
"It's incredible how much mankind hogs its own attention. The presence of others makes the world fade out. Solitude is this reconquest of the enjoyment of things." #memoir #translatednonfiction
pickI don't think I'll ever again encounter so many poetic ways to refer to a frozen lake.
Love that the focus was at least 50% on the nature around the cabin, and 20% on the books being read during the six month stay.
The memoir is primarily a meditation on the uses and detractions of a hermitage, whether it's a necessary reprieve, a revolutionary act or just an escape from the world. Gets a bit weird about women and politics, though. FYI. #memoir
I know that this book is a easy read for me and I could spend my time on a more challenging book. This is a amazing read it has a true story and to be honest I‘m not a nonfiction type of person I like fiction books but this book has my full attention
pickA book by Sylvain Tesson is always an adventure. But here, the adventure of retracing the steps of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow to Paris in sidecars in December is fast eclipsed by History itself.
In less than 200 pages, Sylvain Tesson really offers a feel of the horrors, hunger, and sufferings experienced by the soldiers of the Grande Armée. (See comments to read more)
