A review by ursulamonarch
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean

2.0

A lot of these pieces were written from the mid-90's to mid-00's, and 15-25 years out seems like just the wrong time to read them. They're dated without providing a fresh look at the time; maybe for younger readers they would seem novel, but for me, there were nascent signs of emerging cultures (the child pageant story, already written in the shadow of Jon Benet, especially stuck out, as did the tale of the woman in NJ with the tigers!), while still seeming like a distant and foreign past (maybe from the lack of cell phones?). In any case, I found this not pleasantly jarring, especially because there are also hints of Orlean's masterful and funny writing that emerge from overall bland text.