I’m a book binger.\u00a0 I’ll admit it.\u00a0 If I find an author I like, I plow through everything they write all in a row.\u00a0 If I’m not stuck on an author, I’ll hit a genre and ride if for weeks.\u00a0 For a while, I was all Fantasy, then Sci-Fi, then historical romance, then mystery, then non-fiction environmental, and now, memoirs.\u00a0 But not famous people or historical memoirs.\u00a0 More like fish out of water.\u00a0 Random adventures of otherwise normal people in foreign lands.<\/p>\n
I’ve been hooked on an English family transplanted to the Greek isle of Korfu, a sheep sheerer who moves to the hills of Spain, or a man trying to revive a neglected English garden after the war. Right now, I’ve pouring through a Thoreau-like memoir of a man who buries himself beside the Rogue River here in Oregon for a few months to wrestle some demons and I’m totally hooked.\u00a0 I find myself day dreaming about escaping to a cabin somewhere out in the wild where I could roam the hills and fish for wild salmon with the bears.\u00a0 Yeah, it’s pretty crazy.\u00a0 When I told Kevin this, he looked at me oddly.\u00a0 He could see maybe staying alone for a few weeks but for months and months?\u00a0 No thank you.\u00a0 I’m thinking once I finish this book I may have to pick up the source book of On Walden Pond and really immerse myself in some good old escape-to-nature reading.<\/p>\n
As much as I love these types of books, I don’t have much luck finding them.\u00a0 There are some that everyone recommends – A Year in Provence or Under the Tuscan Sun – but after you mine the obvious ores, where to go next?\u00a0 I have had some blind luck in just wandering the non-fiction section of the library and grabbing arbitrary books but I’d like to find something a bit more focused.\u00a0 Let’s face it, the odds of me moving to the Rogue or raising sheep in Andalusia are slim to none at the best so a good book really is my only hope!\u00a0 But where to look….<\/p>\n
Unless, of course, you could recommend something….eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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