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Summary: Cute Travel Stories
Review: A cute collection of travel stories by women. I thought it would be funnier than it was. Many of these essays are older and published previously.
A few of the essays stood out (those by Sandra Tsing Loh, Jennifer Leo, Christine Nielse, Sarah Vowell, Christine Michaud, Alison Wright) and others were soon forgotten or difficult to get through (Anne Lamott, Deborah Chaney, E. Jean Carroll, Michele Peterson, Margo Kaufman).
One thing for sure, is that reading these stories makes you want to travel.
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Summary: Pack your bags - this is a fun trip!
Review: Absolutely hilarious to anyone who has had any type of travel misadventure. From fear of flying to worries about what you'll look like in your swimsuit, these journeys, written by women, will crack you up. If you've ever tried to fit in while traveling, read this! If you've ever had some bad laundry experiences while traveling, read this! It's worth the journey to the bookstore!
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Summary: Light-hearted fun with some witty subtext
Review: Enjoyed the book. Heard some of the authors read last night at a local travel bookstore; went home and read some more. It's light-hearted; some of the essays, inevitably, are better than others. One, by Leslie Quinn, is especially delightful. It takes place in a French airport, as she and her thirteen-year-old daughter are about to fly home. Leslie desperately wants to leave her daughter with all their luggage and dash to a bookstore to make a last-minute book purchase for the flight back to the U.S.; the daughter resists being left alone. The conflict is told in wonderful, funny and understated dialogue--but what I found especially moving was the way the mother alternately viewed her daughter as both old enough to....and then, as a child. Underneath my laugh-out-loud enjoyment, I found myself moved by this subtle portrait of a mother coping with a daughter coming of age.
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. I am planning on taken another adventure on my own and needed the extra kick in the rear to getting it going. All the stories were comical and shared a insightful encouragement about how truly needed travel and the misadventures there in are to a woman. This book allowed me to discover some really talented writers as well. I recommend this book. And believe me, before I leave on my next trip I'm definately going to make my mother read the first story entitled 'Mom's Tavel Advisories'. I hope there will be a volume 2, Sand in My Crack or Still Finding the Sand, who knows but I will keep my eye out for it.
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Summary: Good to get a laugh at travel "odd-I-sees"
Review: I thought the intro to this was laugh aloud funny, as were a few of the stories. I especially liked the authors' observances of things in the Middle East and Asia, places I haven't yet visited. I got a real laugh out of the story about the women's river trip on the Colorado River, on several levels.
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Summary: Good to get a laugh at travel "odd-I-sees"
Review: I thought the intro to this was laugh aloud funny, as were a few of the stories. I especially liked the authors' observances of things in the Middle East and Asia, places I haven't yet visited. I got a real laugh out of the story about the women's river trip on the Colorado River, on several levels.
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: I was laughing until tears into the first 12 lines. Yes, true some of the stories are not so funny and I feel some of them really didn't belong. Over all it is a pretty good read.
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Summary: Funny ! Funny !
Review: I was laughing until tears into the first 12 lines. Yes, true some of the stories are not so funny and I feel some of them really didn't belong. Over all it is a pretty good read.
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Summary: Ellen Degeneres saved it from getting no stars.
Review: Oh boy...where to start. I have a feeling that the editor just emailed her friends and offered them all $100 for excerpts from their backpacking travel blogs. These are nothing more than 'What I did on summer vacation' themes from the 5th grade.
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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: Out of the 28 stories in this book, I found only about 5 to be well-written and humorous. The majority of the rest consisted of stories about intimate bodily fluids and functions that just happened to occur on foreign soil, and frankly, I found them disgusting and boring. After a while, I started skipping stories entirely after reading the first paragraph or two and seeing where they were headed. I was very disappointed. If you enjoy travel narratives, a much better compilation of women's stories can be found in "A Woman's Passion for Travel" edited by Marybeth Bond & Pamela Michael. Although that book doesn't claim to be a collection of funny stories, "Sand in my Bra" really isn't a collection of funny stories, either.
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