In this lyrical, poetic, and charmingly funny book, Laurie Gough drives from Ontario to California reflecting on a life spent travelling in search ...
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May 28, 2011
Nancy
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It's a travelogue written by a Canadian driving from Ontario to California and reminiscing about other travels and life choices along the way. It touches on so many of the same issues in my life: relationships and settling and belonging somewhere and adventure and wander-lust, growing up and self-definition. Plus the canada->us and east->west transition experiences. It's trying really hard to be poetic and philosophical but I can't quite love it.. maybe because her feelings(and writing) ar
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Mar 01, 2010
Dana
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Kiss the Sunset Pig has an interesting title eh? The book doesn't have much to do with kissing or pigs really, though there are a few sunsets here and there if I do recall.
This book serves as a memoir of travel stories. Laurie Gough, who, when this book is taking place, lives in Guelph, wants to move to California. She packs her bags and makes it a road trip. Along her route, she has flashbacks of some of her amazing travels. From Greece, to the Yukon to Thailand, she's been all over More...
This book serves as a memoir of travel stories. Laurie Gough, who, when this book is taking place, lives in Guelph, wants to move to California. She packs her bags and makes it a road trip. Along her route, she has flashbacks of some of her amazing travels. From Greece, to the Yukon to Thailand, she's been all over More...
Feb 01, 2012
Tonia
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Laurie Gough has a traveling spirit and is constantly moving away from a consistent, scheduled, routine life, always trying to find a place she feels is full of the exotic other. Through her trip in a jeep named Marcia from Southern Ontario to California, she recounts not only her experiences on the road, but spends several chapters flashing back to her international journey's from years gone by. At first, I did not enjoy her narrative as Gough's voice included a whining edge no matter her lif
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Sep 07, 2010
Helki
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I really enjoyed this book. I read it as I was turning 30, and it was completely appropriate. The book is a travel memoir in which the author drives from Canada to California in a quest to figure out what her adult life will be like. At the same time, she reflects back on travel experiences from her younger years. If you love to travel, the book is a pleasure. If you like Eat, Pray, Love I think you'd like this book. They're similar, but I found this one much less annoying. (A teensy bit a
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Jan 29, 2012
Rachel
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I'm reading a lot of non-fiction/memoirs/travel stories at the moment and I'm noticing a pattern. I love the stories but I always end up not liking the writer very much by the end.
Which says more about me than the writer I think.
Which says more about me than the writer I think.
Jan 29, 2012
John
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Gough relates her experiences well, but I came away uncertain whether I'm really her target audience? She struck me as rather naive, almost foolish, in places for such an experienced traveler.
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