How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America | 
Saw Andrés Neuman at @Powells on Tuesday. I almost didn't go because I could feel a migraine coming on but I am so glad I did. He was beyond lovely and the event facilitator, Jeremy, asked some really great questions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall just listening to the two of them talk about books for hours. #authorevent
About Santiago but giving me so many thoughts and feelings about my own maritime-yet-surrounded-by-mountain-ranges city of Seattle. Is this where the mythic Seattle Freeze comes from? The dynamic tension between accommodating and wary, accessible and remote?
pickA love letter to Latin America! Neuman complies his notes and random thoughts while traveling through Latin America for a book tour. He manages to weave in politics, history and contemporary literature written by Latin American writers in his notes effortlessly, while also finding room to reminisce about different Latin American films. All in short quick paragraphs that don't necessarily follow a plot or distinct order. I really enjoyed this book!
Rainy day working from home and all I want to do is cuddle up with a warm blanket and read! 😫
I read an excerpt of this online thinking it was an article & bought it immediately. A literary travel memoir that's also translated from Spanish, released by an indie publisher? This hit all the sweet spots of the type of books that I'm finding exciting right now. Can't wait to dig in.
pickFascinating, smart, enjoyable.
"...it seemed appealing to try writing a journal that would reflect two contradictory convictions. First, that we end up experiencing a particular world in every place we visit. Second, that through the media we spend more time in other places (or in several places simultaneously, or nowhere at all) than where we are physically. But if this is the case, then why does travel continue to transform and teach us so much?"
"[I] revere the airport, that asceptic cathedral where passengers begin the liturgy of changing states before actually changing places," Neuman describes the day before traveling to Argentina. "Airports are the only temples we've been able to build to the present. True shrines to terrestrial transit."
