Episode 060 - Travel Reading

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Travel Reading! What do we read when we travel? How do we pick which books to bring? Which fictional places would we like to travel to? And more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Media We Mention

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• On the Camino by Jason
• I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
• The Last Musketeer by Jason
• The Left Bank Gang by Jason
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson
• Southeast Asia on a Shoestring
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Literary Traveller in Edinburgh: A Book Lover's Guide to the World's First City of Literature by Allan Foster
• Nightwing: The New Order by Kyle Higgins and Trevor McCarthy (this is terrible)
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
• Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
• The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror by Bernard Perron
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology

Links, Articles, and Things

• Camino de Santiago
• Powell's Books
• Nikolai Gogol
• Alexander Pushkin
• Musée Hergé
• • Some photos from Matthew’s visit
• Gambler's Book Shop
• Burlesque Hall of Fame
• The Mob Museum
• A year of reading the world (the blog/book about reading a novel from every country in the world)
• Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
• Turkish delight
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Really Foul Candy
• Anna wanted to visit Rhíminee in The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
• Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Questions

• Do you read when you travel or on vacations?
• Do you organize travel around bookish things?
• What fictional places would you like to visit?

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 18th, when we’ll talk about Romance Fiction!

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