Have I been rabidly consuming Ilona Maher content instead of reading books?
…yes.
Only one book this month, because Team USA has me distracted!
(As a reminder: I always track my reading both on Goodreads and via Instagram stories.)
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‘WANDERLUST: A LOVE AFFAIR WITH FIVE CONTINENTS‘ BY ELISABETH EAVES
Elisabeth Eaves spends a decade and a half adrift, falling in and out of love as she moves through countries. Elisabeth accepts a summer college nanny job in Spain, where she meets and falls in love with a family friend. She delights when her high school love visits her during a study abroad year in Egypt, and allows her college boyfriend to join her as she travels from Pakistan to China, before later getting lost with an Australian tour guide during a jungle trek through Papua New Guinea. As Elisabeth grows older, she begins to realize that — while long-distance, short-term relationships and foreign travel work well for her — the stability of a traditional relationship and long-term job do not.
A lot of the negative reviews of this book touch on how much Elisabeth talks about her sex life. Honestly, I loved it. I thought it was really refreshing and candid, and I wish I’d read this book back in my 20s. “Wanderlust” is full of a lot of self-aware introspection and musings from the coming-of-age standpoint, and I related to a lot of what Elisabeth wrote about. While there is a good amount of detail provided as to Elisabeth’s locations — with lengthy descriptions of Manakhah’s mountains, Karachi’s beaches and Australia’s tourist towns — this travel memoir definitely reads more as a memoir and less as a travel guide, so keep that in mind if you’re looking for a Lonely Planet-style guidebook.
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Anyway… back to the Olympics!
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