The book that I chose to feature this month is The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas. The novel takes place primarily in Stamboul (the modern day city of Istanbul) at the end of the 1800s when the Ottoman Empire is nearing its end. It is the story of a young girl named Eleonora who is born a few years earlier in the summer of 1877 in the town of Constanta on the Black Sea while the town was under attack by the Russian cavalry.
Book of the Month – The Love of My Youth
A review of The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon
Book of the Month – Europe Through the Back Door – 2011
I love to read, I love to travel and I love to read about travel so beginning this month I will feature a travel-related book each month. It may be a guide book, a travel memoir, or a novel set in an interesting locale so long as it relates to travel in some way.
Words in a French Life
Review of Words in a French Life by Kristin Espinasse.
Top 10 Places I’d Like to Take My Kids Before They Grow Up
The top 10 places that I would like to take my kids before they grow up.
Books and Travel
Books are an essential part of the vacation planning process.