The essays in this collection come in two varieties:
1. A woman (or women) face a physical challenge such as running river rapids in
2. A woman (or women) face a mental challenge such as missing the bus in
I cannot imagine a more formulaic batch of essays than the ones in this volume. Skip the book and just make one up for yourself (choose one item from each set of parentheses):
“A woman who has recently (undergone a divorce/ survived breast cancer/ left her career as a management consultant) decides to travel alone to (
If these essays are the best women’s travel writing of 2006, then all I can say is that 2006 was a bad year for travel writing.
(Book 8, 2006)
9 comments:
Perhaps the writers are hoping a Hollywood producer will read their particular essay and will pay them a million dollars for the rights to make a block-buster movie out of it.
Hee, hee -- this is really hilarious, Becky. You are too right. But memoirs like that are the ones that make it big. I haven't read it yet, but isn't "Eat, Pray, Love" along these lines?
My upcoming travel memoir took place on a bus with my husband.
We didn't get divorced, I didn't have sex with a Frenchman (just my psychiatrist husband), the worst medical trauma during the year of our trip was my chipping a tooth on the bus door, we WERE victims of an armed robbery (but it happened off the bus, so I guess doesn't count), I did survive, but rather than becoming stronger for the experience, I developed a bus phobia.
Guess that means I'm stuck waaaay below midlist.
Susan, I haven't read Eat, Pray, Love either, but a friend warned me that I would hate it. She said, on second thought, that I might like "Eat," but that I would hate "Pray" and "Love." The good thing about this blog is that people learn what I like and dislike, and then warn me away from stinkers.
Doreen, and according Melissa (the first commenter) you won't get a movie made about your adventures, either.
I'm still hoping for Angelina Jolie to play me. I know, I know, it's the obvious choice - although she'd have to lose some weight, first.
Doreen, let me know how that pans out, you and Angelina. Meanwhile, everyone else take a look at Doreen's web site about her travel narrative, which sounds a heck of a lot better than the one I just read: http://www.doreenorion.com/
Thanks, Becky!
(And I'll keep you posted on me and Angie - note we're on a nickname basis now.)
your blog is very good
i have a site http://www.frequenttravelrewards.com/ can we exchange links
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