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What's in Your Suitcase?
I recently wrote a column on our travel books, meaning travel guides full of useful information to help you get around a particular region. But those aren't the only books I grab when packing my suitcase. I also throw in another kind of equally important travel book, books that I plan on reading while I'm happily lying on the beach, or while I'm less happily stuck in the airport. What type of books do you pack when you travel? Light and easy fiction? Political history about the area you are traveling? Natural history? Travelogues or fiction set in the area in which you are traveling? I will always fondly remember reading the Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux while traveling in Honduras, a book I probably would not have ever otherwise read.
Generally I pack fiction or travelogues specific to my region of travel. That is as long as it seems relatively well written and light. Every once in a while I try bringing a book that I feel I *should* read but that has somehow never found it's way to the top of my pile, figuring that I won't have any choice and will finally read the book. Mistake. I always end up buying a new book or I guess that's why lists of best books to read while traveling are so wide ranging. People tend to mostly agree upon the best dog lover books or the best science fiction books. But the best “fun” books or the most “relaxing” books? Now that varies wildly from reader to reader. A few travel books that do turn up time and time again on personal travel reading lists include:
Don't forget the library has a great collection of audio CD and cassette books for those long road trips! For other ideas about books to read while you travel this summer be sure to come to our monthly Literary Salon group this Thursday the 19th at 7:00 p.m. here in the library. Happy and safe travels!
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