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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
The book follows the everyday lives (falling in love, family, work and ambitions) of six ordinary North Koreans over fifteen years that includes the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of Kim Jong-il and a famine that killed many in the North Korean population.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
The book follows the everyday lives (falling in love, family, work and ambitions) of six ordinary North Koreans over fifteen years that includes the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of Kim Jong-il and a famine that killed many in the North Korean population.
Oh I read that! It was an amazing book and incredibly eye-opening about the lives the ordinary North Korean has to lead as well as the difficulties they face after fleeing to the South.
Oh, but you must make the time, and find the money, to visit Savannah. I think it is even more interesting than New Orleans. The layout of the city, and its many beautiful squares, just add to its Southern, moss-draped, charm.
I didn't get to see it, myself, until my daughter chose to attend the Savannah College of Arts & Design. Because Savannah is also touted as one of the US's 'most haunted' cities, and I enjoy Halloween, I must go one year just for the occasion, and to tour some of the most haunted places.
Having read Midnight made me enjoy the city all-the-more. It was fun visiting the house and the square, and seeing the Bonaventure Cemetery. I kept looking for what's-her-name(s) -- both the mystical old woman who gave herself credit for weaving spells and ciphering 'signs' and the transvestite, the Lady Chablis (who I did get to see at a club in Atlanta several years back -- she is so tiny, sort of like a miniature Dianna Ross).
Lots of good restaurants, interesting SCAD-related things to do, like visiting the shop carrying, and selling, a lot of the students' work, and the river front is a nice place to stroll, and shop, stopping for a bite to eat or having a drink. Savannah makes for great 'people-watching,' too.
Thank you. The conversation came up the other day about my daughter and I taking a trip somewhere we've never been but that's not too far and within budget. I live on the Jersey shore. Savannah's just down the coast a bit.
Since she's a college student also, she might enjoy your suggestions.
Travel
Blue Highways- William Least-Heat Moon
Prairyerth- WLHM
River Horse- WLHM
Travels With Charley- John Steinbeck
Historic
The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons- John Wesley Powell
The Journals of Lewis and Clark- Quite a few versions of this, but the National Geographic one isn't bad
Nature
Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey
A Sand County Almanac- Aldo Leopold
The Mountains of California- John Muir
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek- Annie Dillard
Land of Little Rain- Mary Austin
Wilderness and the American Mind- Roderick Nash
"Logbook for Grace" by Robert Cushman Murphy. A collection of letters sent home to his newlywed wife by a young zoologist who signed aboard a whaling schooner in 1912 to the South Atlantic, to study the natural history of the islands.
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. For a writer it's invaluable, but I also think that it has great ideas and reminders for anyone.
And pretty much anything by Bill Bryson. I reread The Mother Tongue at least once a year and A Walk in the Woods is hilarious.
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