With a more than 30-hour voyage in front of me (including an 18-hour layover and 3 + hour train ride) I have been trying to stock my Kindle as much as possible. My attention span for plane rides is a small one, so this won’t be the time to start re-reading Dostoevsky or the free Anna Karenina I downloaded, but instead a perfect time for Tina Fey or Mindy Kaling (alas, I have already read their books).
Here are the new books on my Kindle so far…please give me suggestions on your favorite books I should add, too! It’s a long journey to Aix.
1. Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
2. #GIRLBOSS, by Sophia Amorusa
3. A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
5. Paris Was Ours, by Penelope Rowlands
6. Inamorata, by Megan Chance
Me Talk Pretty One Day will have you laughing out loud so I would probably save that one for the part of the flight when no one is sleeping… It is hilarious!
I also recommend any Paulo Coelho book (cliche for a reason) or The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, which I can’t put down. Bon Voyage!
Thanks so much!! I will look into those 🙂
Great book recommendations, I’m always looking for things to read!!
I really loved Euphoria (might appeal to your sense of adventure, but also has touching love story) and Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is a page-turner!
Thanks Chelsea! I will look those up!
Hey, I found your blog while searching for fellow TAPIFians. I highly recommend When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris, since he writes about moving to Japan with his partner. I read it when I studied in France four years ago, and it was nice to know I wasn’t alone in feeling disoriented and strange in a foreign country. He also writes with a lot of humor, so it keeps the pangs of homesickness away. 🙂
hi gabriella! thanks so much for the tip…I will definitely check it out. homesickness sneaks up on you when you least expect it, that’s for sure 🙂 where are you going to be teaching?
I will be teaching in downtown Bordeaux. 🙂
What a dream! Bordeaux is definitely on my list of places to visit while I’m there 🙂