I picked this up when dropping off books at Caribou Coffee on Park Rd in Charlotte. There were a number of old hardcover books that begged to be registered! hee, hee. For curiosity sakes I rescued two of them.

c. 1957 ex "Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County"

Randomly chosen to be next after

Strange Bedpersons by Jennifer Crusie, c. 1994

[top shelf pick]

Why such an old book? Well, to be honest I will give anything a try regardless of vintage.

about the author:

You still travel? You don't get tired?

No, I love traveling. It's one of the things that I find the most interesting: writing books and traveling.

Do you have a favorite place?

My favorite place in the world is a tiny little valley in the French Pyrenees where I went as a child. I took my friend Vahan there to show this place to him. It has about five houses and is a tiny little village, which is to me a Shangri-la. Otherwise the place I have been to that I love very much and made a great impression on me was Afghanistan, and that was many years ago. I was there with my husband at the time when the king was still there. It must have been 30 years ago. We traveled for six weeks in a car all over, and I remember it as the country I have seen that has impressed me the most, the most beautiful, the most exciting. Meyer and I traveled in China, in Russia ... the last place we went was Istanbul.

That sounds wonderful.

I wish everybody would travel a lot. People would learn to know each other and trust each other more.

source: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/int/2005/08/09/torres/index.html?pn=1