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I had no idea you all were such adventurous, well-traveled, risk-taking readers! It was so much fun to live vicariously through your reading! Deborah packed A.S. Byatt’s “The Matisse Stories” into her bag — three tales inspired by three paintings — as she rambled in China and savored the contrast of the cultures as she relaxed in the evenings.
Andrew found fortitude in Stephen Crane’s classic, “The Red Badge of Courage” as he endured a sudden storm in the Wind River Mountains on a camping trip to Wyoming.
Jim wrote of reading “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” as he inhaled the scent of the breeze blowing through the Sacred Valley in Urquillos, Peru.
And I have to say, it’s hard to beat Paul’s experience! “The scent of burning yak dung, the heat coming off of the stove in waves. Light softly coming in behind me from a foggy mountain landscape. A warm cup in front of me. This was the scene as I fell into @MarinaLostetter's NOUMENON.”
Karen escaped to Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, and read travel writer and folklorist John Millington Synge’s “The Aran Islands.” “Haven’t had an experience like that before or since,” she writes.
And Guy — who wrangles the assignments desk at WCCO-TV — tweeted me a photo that looks like a British postcard: Medieval bridge, rushing river and he’s got a Harry Potter novel in his hands!
Matthew was also in the UK — hanging out with friends on an Irish beach reading “The Land of Spices” as they surfed. “I’d never felt so clearly the wide horizon of possibilities….”
And “Future Gramma” has never forgotten the “pan-fried hot dog” smell of the cab in a 1974 RV. She was 14 that year and reading “Shogun” for the fourth time — the only thing that got her through an endless road trip to a Baptist Church conference.
And these are only a few of the indelible reading experiences you shared!
I’ll have more next Monday and a new challenge about the books that inspired you to go there and see if for yourself!
-Kerri Miller |
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