Just for Adults - Read All Summer - Activity #2

I Have the Travel Bug!

 A) Be Novel:

A Sense of Place

 If you’re like me and would love to travel the world over but it doesn’t fit into your budget, try reading novels set in other countries.  Get carried away to the Congo  in the The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Kingsolver, Barbara..  Or head over to Luxor and become embroiled in a web of intrigue in Tomb of the golden bird : [an Amelia Peabody mystery] by Peters, Elizabeth. 1927-. Visit your local Calgary Public Library to pick up great booklists or find novels set in other countries by using our online catalogue. Type in the country you  are interested in and fiction. E.g. in a Subject search type: Afghanistan fiction to find titles such as The kite runner : a novel by Hosseini, Khaled..     

B) Get Real:

Where in the World?

If you’ve loved a novel set in a certain country and you want to explore it a little more, try nonfiction.  Travel writing and memoir will take you to foreign places and exotic locales where you will experience the writer’s journeys of being and belonging (or not belonging).  In Honeymoon in Tehran : two years of love and danger in Iran by Moaveni, Azadeh, 1976-, Moaveni, an Iranian-American author, returns to Iran as a reporter and marries an Iranian man, describing the repressive society and her family’s decision to finally leave.

C) Try Something New:

Read the Movie!  

 Have you seen or heard about a great movie?  Many great films are born from an even greater novel.  Slumdog Millionaire was based on the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup: Q & A [or, Slumdog millionaire] by Swarup, Vikas.  In Cold Blood, the classic “true crime novel” by Truman Capote, was made into a movie in 1967.  Check out Capote, released in 2005, about how Capote researched and wrote this landmark book: Capote [videorecording (DVD)].