Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour, (Paperback)

from sriemann

I had picked up this book to read because it was connected to the Grand Tour, a topic I've wanted to read memoirs and travelogues about. This one was definitely the opposite of a Renaissance/Victorian Grand Tour memoir... the woman was the tourist, and while the amorous encounters on other grand ...

from khager

Rachel is a budding actress and is on her way to Europe to perform in a play (as an extra). While there, she falls in and out of bars, beds and love. This is a memoir, and it's hard not to cheer Rachel on while she tries to find herself in Europe. She makes bad choices, but part of that is becaus...

from bookchickdi

If you've ever dreamed of traveling to Europe with no money or any real idea of how you are going to live, this is the book for you. If you have a young daughter who wants to do that, do not read this book, it will scare the hell out of you. Subtitled An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand...

from dyeabolical

This is not a travel guide and it is barely a travelogue. Why do people think it is? Shukert mentions her travels a little bit, but this book is mostly a self-involved memoir about Shukert's messy early 20s traveling around Europe broke, drunk, and with terrible taste in men. Being a big fan of t...

from Jenners26

1 book I read-Everything Is Going To Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour by Rachel Shukert 2 words that describe the book-Sex Memoir (NOT so much a travel memoir as you might think) 3 setting where the book took place or characters I met * Setting: Primarily Vienna and Am...