Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad (Adventura Travel Series)
25 journalers for this copy...
Reserved for PokPok's virtual non-fiction bookbox.
Released 18 yrs ago (1/12/2006 UTC) at US Postal Service in Chicago, Illinois -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to labmomnm as part of PokPok's virtual bookbox.
21 August 2006 - started reading this morning - lovely, so far!
25 August '06 - I enjoyed most of the pieces in this book; skipped the Borneo one, though - the writing style was too damn "writerly" for my taste...I have trouble with stuff like that. Anyway, liked the rest. My family lived several places overseas when I was young, and I've moved around a bit on my own since high school - those moves have all been within the USA, but to different parts of the country. So, no major language barriers (regional slang *can* be a bit weird!) and similar shops, but the whole "how-do-I-fit-in-where-are-my-friends?" thing is at least somewhat familiar. But, I admit, I have had the chance to make the hop to Europe and backed away from it...it seemed such an irrevocable step to take at the time.
I'm now re-reading Alice Steinbach's "Without Reservations: Travels of An Independent Woman"; I finished "Expat" and immediately reached for the Steinbach :-)
Setting up as a bookray. Please try to keep the book moving - a month per person seems reasonable, doesn't it? - as there are quite a few people on the list. (Anyone requesting to be added once the book is already out has been put in the second list)
Suefitz (CA) international shipping OK
Thursday5 (OH) prefers US shipping
therubycanary (TN) international shipping OK (has asked to be skipped) *added below*
Guinneth (NH) prefers US shipping but able to do international
TheBowieFollies (NY) international/interplanetary shipping OK
Joanthro (CO) international shipping OK
LyzzyBee (UK) prefers shipping w/in Europe
menalima (Portugal) international shipping OK
Icila (France) international shipping OK
Tourneso173 (France) prefers shipping w/in W. Europe
MissTerry (Germany) prefers shipping w/in Europe but able to do international
CanberraPenny (Austria) prefers shipping w/in Europe skipping - unable to contact
Colombine (Switzerland)
totoroandmei (Japan) prefers shipping w/in Asia; surface if overseas
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azuki (FL) prefers shipping w/in US
ThymeWaits (NY) international shipping OK
rootmartin (MA) international shipping OK
Cocobarks (MA) international shipping OK
Mamikaem (MO) international shipping OK
penelopewanders (Switzerland) prefers shipping w/in Europe
sadogs (UK) international shipping OK asked to be skipped
beekeeper40 (UK) ? shipping no response to PMs & ISOs
Brujula (France) international shipping OK
Supertalya (Korea)
therubycanary (Korea) <-------
bookguide (Netherlands)
Enjoy
Released 17 yrs ago (12/9/2006 UTC) at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Moving on to the next person (trying to be good and be rid of old rings by the end of the year.)
Enjoy
I've been looking forward to this one, and have already started in.
Thanks for sharing this, labmomnm. It will be off to the next person on the list just as soon as I get an address.
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Fiona Jones
And I disagree with the tenet that people are people..There is a distinction and a nuance to every where I have been and the mores and the consciousness in such are all quite disparate, sometimes only 15 kilometres down the road, the people are the polar opposite in tradition.Trust me Im from Bootle and you can go to another house on Fernhill road and the accents will be as different as someone from Brussels to someone in Taipei!
cheers and reveres lab one for having us
I have emailed the next on the rung will be posting this week
happy boss crooking, cob brossing, brooksiding, bokchoying chewbaccing..
Jonesy ;)
Thanks for making this book available labmomnm and for introducing me to a new publisher with many books I will probably have to buy. ;-) Mailed to LyzzyBee yesterday.
I don't have any major expat stories of my own. I've spent a little time in America and had an interesting time adapting to having an American (long-distance) boyfriend - the language differences were amazing. Being a stay-at-home myself, I have always been fascinated in travel tales and novels about the immigrant/emigrant experience, and that is what drew me to this book.
Thanks for adding me to the ring. PM'ing menalima so I can send it on soon!
Released 16 yrs ago (7/7/2007 UTC) at A Bookcrosser in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Posting to Menalima on Saturday.
I am so sorry that I've had this just over a month. This never usually happens. However, I can only get to the post office on a Saturday and it's only open in the morning. Last Saturday I was at the UK BookCrossing Unconvention, and the one before I was helping run a BookCrossing stall at our local festival. Good excuses but - sorry!!
Half-way through the book, and thoroughly enjoying it!
Pming Tournesol73
I will PM CanberraPenny for their postal address. May be a delay in posting as I'm now in NZ for Christmas, but will definately make sure its in the mail by early Jan.
08/01 - Still trying to get a postal address from CanberraPenny. Will try again - assume delayed reply due to holiday period.
19/01 - Finally on its way to Colombine.
The book arrived yesterday. Thank you so much for including me in the ring.
As an ex-pat myself (albeit not American) I look forward to read these stories....
More soon. :-)
Sadly, I have to say that, just as it happened to a previous poster, I haven't got around to read this book. I blame it mostly on the big carnival happening in town and having family visiting lately, in any case, I don't want to keep it from others any longer, and I'm ready to send it to totoroandmei in Japan, and hopefully, the poor book will be better appreciated by the rest of you :-S. With my apologies.
Bon voyage, book.
Colombine
Colombine.
Update:
I really enjoyed reading this especially about places I have visited or lived. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Released 15 yrs ago (3/24/2008 UTC) at BookMooch Member in Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases
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Surface mail to the US
I have two books ahead of this and haven't had much time to read lately but will get it going soon. Thanks everybody for passing this forward!
The book reminds me of one episode. Once on vacation visiting my parents back home, my mom asked my husband and I to prepare a salad as part of a feast. On the assumption that Americans eat salads and that we are sort of vegetarians (she once lamented, If you haven't gone to America, you won't have become vegetarian!! in her belief that no one, fed on her excellent cooking, could have turned against meat.)
So we thought we had an easy task until we get to the supermarket (one supposedly caters to foreigners). We couldn't find white mushroom! I held up a fresh shiitake, but my husband insisted it won't work. Even vegetables by the same name look different. Pampered by aisles of selection, I was shocked to find only Kraft Thousand Island and Miracle Whip for dressings. I wandered all over the supermarket, hoping to find one lone can of olive misplaced somewhere... And I realize that, after spending half of my life each in two different countries, I have became a perpetual expat, a sucker forever paying outrageous price for that taste of a home half a world away.
Mailing off to the next reader this week.
Released 15 yrs ago (8/27/2008 UTC) at By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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by media mail to rootmartin
I lived abroad in France as a student and in Africa for work. Both of those experiences were stimulating and exciting but simultaneously lonely at times. That exact feeling was captured time and again within this book. It was incredible how my feelings were represented within this book. Thanks so much for starting this ring.
I'm mailing it on today to cocobarks.
Thanks so much for including me in this ring.
On its way to Mamikaem. Hope you enjoy it. I did.
UPDATE: 9 February, 2009
FINALLY got this mailed out to penelopewanders today. It should take 5 - 10 days. Sorry for the delay!
Generally interesting essays on the trials and tribulations of living abroad, with the inevitable new perspective on one's own identity. Interesting to note the recurring themes which so often centered around food. Although there were a number of "non-standard White Americans" represented, I began to yearn for a very different perspective - that of immigrants/expats to the USA, for example. Also made me feel like one of these days I should get to my own story... I've Pmed for the next address.
UPDATE March 13
Sadogs has asked to be skipped, I've just PMed beekeeper40 for an address.
Released 14 yrs ago (3/26/2009 UTC) at ☑ 'Controlled Release' > Country > Province > City, .---controlled release---. Switzerland
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I've sent PMs, posted ISOs etc and the word on the forum is that beekeeper has had no activity in over a year. I asked labmomnm whether I should send on to Brujula, but there I received no response to my PMs or ISO either. As I have received Brujula's address and because I leave on holiday for two weeks the day after tomorrow, I decided to just send this on to her and hope it's ok. So this is now on its way from Switzerland to France. Thanks so much for making it available, sorry the book stayed here so long!
Thank you very much for sharing!
And now, to the next reader!
Released 14 yrs ago (7/17/2009 UTC) at
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mailed to the next reader
There is no heart to an onion.
No inner seed, no final point
to reach before you can
say 'it's gone.'
No juicy hard pit implying
some kind of permanence
or regeneration once
each successive surface is
peeled away
When the layers are gone,
there is nothing.
The onion smell
on your hands is an
impermanent stain,
a stinking reminder that
stays with you for a short time
before it too
fades away.
Update:
I read this book and enjoyed it. As an expat, I could identify with many of the stories. I hope the editor will decide to do a second volume of expat stories one day.
This book is slated to go on to bookguide in The Netherlands, but she didn't reply to my message. What now??
Edit: This book is traveling again. I passed it to a woman in my book group who has a lot of adventurous spirit. And she's an expat, of course! Happy reading.
I might know somebody who'd be interested in this book. I'll check with Bybee to see if she has other plans for it.