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Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
4.0
Review Score: 4-stars; I really liked it.
Author: Suzanne Roberts
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir
Places Featured: Several
Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel is a collection of travel essays from Suzanne Roberts’s travels around the world loosely collected around the idea of “peccadillos--the seeming harmless things we do in another culture that we would never do in our own--that make us bad tourists.” (Her words!)
And although many of the stories are funny and there are a few that might make you cringe, it’s more than just a collection of stories from one woman’s self-centered crazy adventures as other books in this genre sometimes become--there’s heart and meaning behind many of the stories with thoughts and lessons of how travel can affect our lives...and the lives of the people we meet along the way.
I wrote down more than just a few quotes from the book as I wanted to revisit them; I was often grateful that she was able to put into words experiences or thoughts that I, too, have experienced while traveling (or just plain living life; she does include some experiences with relationships, too).
My one complaint is the organization of the book--the stories were sorted by activity (“Eating and Drinking,” “Activities,” etc.) which meant stories from the same trip were sometimes separated and the stories sometimes jumped in time. There wasn’t one summarizing introduction or epilogue to tie the stories together; but, I read an Advanced Readers Copy and I hope that’s something they’ve added to the published editions.
Overall, though, it’s a great choice for anyone who loves to travel and realizes that travel can teach us a few things about ourselves and our world.
*I was given a version of this book for free in exchange for an honest book review. The book will be released on 1 October 2020.
Author: Suzanne Roberts
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir
Places Featured: Several
Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel is a collection of travel essays from Suzanne Roberts’s travels around the world loosely collected around the idea of “peccadillos--the seeming harmless things we do in another culture that we would never do in our own--that make us bad tourists.” (Her words!)
And although many of the stories are funny and there are a few that might make you cringe, it’s more than just a collection of stories from one woman’s self-centered crazy adventures as other books in this genre sometimes become--there’s heart and meaning behind many of the stories with thoughts and lessons of how travel can affect our lives...and the lives of the people we meet along the way.
I wrote down more than just a few quotes from the book as I wanted to revisit them; I was often grateful that she was able to put into words experiences or thoughts that I, too, have experienced while traveling (or just plain living life; she does include some experiences with relationships, too).
My one complaint is the organization of the book--the stories were sorted by activity (“Eating and Drinking,” “Activities,” etc.) which meant stories from the same trip were sometimes separated and the stories sometimes jumped in time. There wasn’t one summarizing introduction or epilogue to tie the stories together; but, I read an Advanced Readers Copy and I hope that’s something they’ve added to the published editions.
Overall, though, it’s a great choice for anyone who loves to travel and realizes that travel can teach us a few things about ourselves and our world.
*I was given a version of this book for free in exchange for an honest book review. The book will be released on 1 October 2020.