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    Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

    By Shannon McKenna Schmidt

    3.5/5

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    Peppered with great reading suggestions and little-known tales of literary gossip, Novel Destinations is a unique travel guide, an attractive gift book, and the ultimate browser's delight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMay 20, 2008
    ISBN9781426203435
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    Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

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    • 3/5
      - A nice idea of highlighting literary connections with various travel destinations that unfortunately doesn’t quite work. But I think this book’s failure is more down to its design and layout than it’s content. It falls between two stools and ends up as neither a literary overview nor a practical travel guide. By organizing the content by genres and jumping from author to author with no clear delineation the information soon blends together. I ended up cherry picking entries by searching for authors in the index. Talking of indexes the book desperately needed a dedicated index of locations mentioned to aid any travel planning with a literary twist. I was hoping that this could be the book to help me figure out a few fun places to visit the next time I’m in New York for a few days, or on a future trip back to the UK. The frustration is that the information is all in there, it’s just not presented in a useful way.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed sampling the entries from this book, but it wasn't particularly useful when I went to use it to plan some literary adventures. The layout stymied me when I approached the book from a planning standpoint. I felt like I had to search around quite a bit to find what I was looking for, both when looking for everything for one author and for everything in one geographical region. I wanted to be able to say, "I'm in New England; what can I do that's literary?" but it didn't work that way for me. (It's possible this was due to user error.) I also could have used a book more centered on North America because that's where I am and that's where I plan most (or, so far, all) of my road trips. I liked reading about the destinations in the UK, but having never been there and having no immediate plans to go there, it was difficult to envision the locations.

      I do plan to pick this one up again as my kids get older and they and I plan trips together. Or at least I hope that's what will happen. My kids and I all love to read, and the whole family loves road trips; literary road trips seem like a logical outcome of all of this reading/road-tripping love, but it's possible I'm not taking into account the feelings of pre-teens and teens about traveling with their mom.
    • 4/5
      Fun bedside book for those nights when I just want something short and light. It has short descriptions of the homes of famous authors as well as other places nearby.
    • 4/5
      This is a wonderful travel guide which provides factual and anedoctal info about writers, their homes around the world, and annual literary celebrations in their honor. There are a few small photos placed next to the names of the homes. Also an excellent resource to learn about favorite authors' backgrounds without making the trip.
    • 4/5
      There is a lot of information here. It's an encyclopedia of literary travel spots for about a dozen famous writers. Then, there is information about festivals celebrating individual authors or books in general, libraries, hotels, and pubs authors used in books and/or visited as regulars. Great for daydreaming about retirement road trips. I don't believe the information is extant as I noticed some lesser known museums missing, but it's got a lot of information in a relatively small number of pages. It's definitely worth keeping as a reference if you like literary-related travel.
    • 3/5
      For the true bibliophile, it's armchair traveling... for the things that kept you in your armchair to begin with. A rather narrow listing of locations noted for fictional happenings rather than actual ones. Note that its focus remains on Europe and America.It's certainly not a book you read cover to cover, but it's charming to pick up when you've got a destination in mind (provided your destination is listed and you know where to find that info) to see if there are any noteworthy literary landmarks for you to work into your schedule. Keep it on the travel shelf and peruse at your leisure every now and then. Its big failing is a lack of an index. Dear me. So even then, you need to dig for what you might like. So perhaps you should read it outright, and flag things that you think might someday be useful.I wasn't heartily impressed, but then, I suppose a more comprehensive guide would be too daunting. Ah well.
    • 4/5
      An excellent and engaging guide for the bookish traveller. Hopefully, this will be expanded upon, though.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful for the literary traveler and the arm chair traveler alike.
    • 5/5
      Novel Destinations is a bibliophile's dream. A compact, attractive volume, it's chock full of enough information to fuel a lifetime of literary tourism.The book is divided into two parts. Part One consists of a potpourri of literary attractions, ranging from author houses and museums to destinations frequented by writers ranging from Edith Wharton to Ernest Hemingway, to literary festivals and bookstore tours (a pastime I've engaged in with great pleasure) and concluding with literary lodgings, restaurants and bars.Part Two focuses on tourist opportunities in places associated with the lives of ten famous writers, from Dublin (Joyce) to Concord, MA (Alcott) to Key West (Hemingway), for literary types who want a more in depth travel experience.Like a pair of chefs writing about their favorite restaurants, the authors are knowledgeable and informative, consistently conveying their enthusiasm for this unique project. A previous reviewer has noticed the absence of an index, but I assume that's only a deficiency in the ARC, as the table of contents identifies indices for both authors and destinations. There's ample contact information that will allow readers to conduct their own followup research.This isn't the type of book anyone is likely to sit down with and read from cover to cover. But whether you're actually planning a literary trip, or simply want to sit by the fireside contemplating that delightful possibility, it is a volume guaranteed to provide many hours of pleasurable and rewarding reading.
    • 3/5
      This book definitely meets my expectations of a National Geographic publication. I expected descriptions of places where authors had lived and worked but was thrilled to find tours of the places within these great authors' novels mapped out for me.These are not the staid entries of most travel guides. The authors provide a bit of history and biography with each entry. This, combined with quality writing, makes Novel Destinations a great read for any lover of literature, travel, or both.