Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West (Hardcover) by Joni Rendon, Shannon McKenna Schmidt, Matthew Pearl

from gothamajp

- A nice idea of highlighting literary connections with various travel destinations that unfortunately doesn't quite work. But I think this book's failure is more down to its design and layout than it's content. It falls between two stools and ends up as neither a literary overview nor a practica...

from alana_leigh

For the true bibliophile, it's armchair traveling... for the things that kept you in your armchair to begin with. A rather narrow listing of locations noted for fictional happenings rather than actual ones. Note that its focus remains on Europe and America. It's certainly not a book you read cove...

from ImperfectCJ

I enjoyed sampling the entries from this book, but it wasn't particularly useful when I went to use it to plan some literary adventures. The layout stymied me when I approached the book from a planning standpoint. I felt like I had to search around quite a bit to find what I was looking for, both...

from lindap69

Fun bedside book for those nights when I just want something short and light. It has short descriptions of the homes of famous authors as well as other places nearby.

from perlle

There is a lot of information here. It's an encyclopedia of literary travel spots for about a dozen famous writers. Then, there is information about festivals celebrating individual authors or books in general, libraries, hotels, and pubs authors used in books and/or visited as regulars. Great fo...