The final City by the Book from my most recent trip takes us to Aix-en-Provence, a city my travel companion knew well, but that I didn’t know at all. Well, it’s much easier to get to know a city in two days when a) you have a private tour guide and b) you have a […]
As soon as my friend and I planned this summer's France trip I was excited to get back on it with the City by the Book blogs, and here we are! I thought it'd be easy to find books by authors from the cities we were visiting, or at least set there, but it was…
Continue reading ➞ City by the Book: A Little Tour in France
Once again, my novel picked for Rio de Janeiro turned out to cover a much broader space of land than just Rio, but so did our trip, so it worked out quite well. For Rio de Janeiro, or for Brazil, I picked Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis, written in 1899. We were only in Rio itself…
Continue reading ➞ City by the book: Rio de Janeiro & de Assis
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