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Philanthropic Wanderlust
A nomad with a heart of gold, Danell transports the reader to the remote, poverty-stricken and at times dangerous regions of the world, allowing them to witness first-hand her missions of hope. You will be hooked from the first page as you accompany this courageous, unselfish, compassionate and adventurous young woman making the world a better place for those less fortunate. An uplifting read that will no doubt encourage others to unleash their own humanitarian journey...“
-Teresa Rodriguez – Bestselling author – Daughters of Juarez, Emmy-Award winning
Journalist - Univision News Magazine Show Aqui y Ahora
By the age of twenty-seven, Danell Lynn had been married, divorced, collecting university degrees, developing fashion companies, traveling the world and learning that you can definitely go your own way. Philanthropic Wanderlust will open new windows of possibilities into the magnificence of globe-trotting, the need to explore and understand cultural diversity. This story using humor and heartache, illustrates the burning desire of one woman for compassion, fueled by wanderlust and a giving spirit that shines brightly.
Chronicling five years of travel and philanthropy, celebrating life and the freedom to go beyond the unknown and take a passionate step out of “comfort zone” life acceptance,
Lynn delivers the ultimate adventure…the adventure of living. Finding laughter and fear from the northern mountains of Ecuador to the deserts of Morocco, from AIDS hospitals in Malawi to pediatric units in Haiti, darkness and death in El Salvador to the rhythms of life in Cuba, and one can’t forget the “luck” of feces in Colombia.
“You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!”
-Teresa Rodriguez – Bestselling author – Daughters of Juarez, Emmy-Award winning
Journalist - Univision News Magazine Show Aqui y Ahora
By the age of twenty-seven, Danell Lynn had been married, divorced, collecting university degrees, developing fashion companies, traveling the world and learning that you can definitely go your own way. Philanthropic Wanderlust will open new windows of possibilities into the magnificence of globe-trotting, the need to explore and understand cultural diversity. This story using humor and heartache, illustrates the burning desire of one woman for compassion, fueled by wanderlust and a giving spirit that shines brightly.
Chronicling five years of travel and philanthropy, celebrating life and the freedom to go beyond the unknown and take a passionate step out of “comfort zone” life acceptance,
Lynn delivers the ultimate adventure…the adventure of living. Finding laughter and fear from the northern mountains of Ecuador to the deserts of Morocco, from AIDS hospitals in Malawi to pediatric units in Haiti, darkness and death in El Salvador to the rhythms of life in Cuba, and one can’t forget the “luck” of feces in Colombia.
“You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!”
214 pages, Paperback
First published October 3, 2013
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About the author
Danell Lynn
7 books1 followerAuthor of Philanthopic Wanderlust, Danell Lynn is a globe-trotting writer, international philanthropist, entrepreneur, educator and more. Her work has appeared in publication from newspapers, magazines, E-zines and books in North and South America. She is the founding editor of 2 Wheeled Wanderlust the Magazine and is a contributing columnist to Mainstream Magazine – Philanthropy Column- Mainstream Cares. Previous Lifestyle Editor and Destination Columnist for Phoenix SportBike Magazine, and former Arts Editor for The Noise Newspaper. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry’s Elite, she was a nominee for the Governors Arts Awards of Arizona, recipient of a gratitude award by the First Lady of El Salvador, and has been featured on numerous television and radio programs (Good Morning AZ, FOX 10 Sports News, FOX 10 AZ-AM, KNAU- NPR Radio, NPR-Weekend Edition, Pistol Pete- 92.7 Energy-radio show…).
She lives in the United States, and calls the open road home.
www.DanellLynn.com
www.Facebook.com/authorDanellLynn
She lives in the United States, and calls the open road home.
www.DanellLynn.com
www.Facebook.com/authorDanellLynn
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January 3, 2014
Danell Lynn's memoir lets you leaf through the pages of what feels like her personal journal. The reader gets to witness Lynn's love of humanity, which consumes her heart and her life. Lynn's passion for philanthropy resembles a mother's love for her children: It is the most tender emotion, but also a strong, unrelenting pulse which motivates her to do whatever it takes to reach the needy. Lynn never gives up and keeps on giving, and she convicts us to do the same through the sharing of her journeys across the globe. I will want to share her story with my students in the future, for she epitomizes the manifestation of empathy that we wish for young people to embody as they grow up and lead the world.
September 8, 2016
An inspirational story by Danell Lynn giving a personal account of her travels. A great adventure and one the reader feels they are experiencing along with the author which makes it hard to put down.
It captures her compassionate spirit and desire to understand cultural differences. A very enjoyable read.
It captures her compassionate spirit and desire to understand cultural differences. A very enjoyable read.
October 29, 2014
This story of the giving of art and the art of giving is compelling and necessary for the world in which we find ourselves today. It is ambitious, it pulses with compassion, and it reaches well outside of its physical boundaries. For these reasons, and many others, I very much wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, I could barely finish it. It reads like a journal-turned-memoir, albeit poorly transcribed, with all of the stylistic and flow problems you would imagine from the meshing of those two genres. It also seems to have had multiple run-ins with auto-correct and to have never been read through by an editor (or, honestly, even any English-speaking person, because anyone who knows the language would never make some of the contained grammatical mistakes). Stylistic choices aside, the terrible grammar and vocabulary make for an excruciatingly painful read. These problems, serious though they are, could be overlooked or forgiven in a personal letter, email, or journal entry. But this is a published work, and demands a different level of communication and quality.
One sentence in particular, at the beginning of the last paragraph on page 34, really sent me over the edge:
"We began to laugh as I am being starred at as I eat and the De Wali would pass me more to eat."
Not only does this sentence incorrectly use starred instead of stared and contain no punctuation at all, it also changes verb tenses three times. From this point on, I decided to take notes - only on the most egregious errors, not on the minor stuff, and certainly not on every mistake - and I ended up with a full page of notes. These notes include error categories (such as verb tense changes, gerund and prepositional phrases that are incorrectly linked to their antecedents, and run-on sentences), specific vocabulary problems where one word is incorrectly used in place of another (such as "bodies" for "body's" on page 75 in the next-to-last paragraph), and specific sentences that have major problems (such as the first sentence on page 93, which is a rambling smattering of phrases and actually has no grammatical subject at all).
Because I believe that the author's humanitarian work is important, and that this book could be good (these are also the ONLY reasons I managed to finish the book instead of putting it down after page 5), I would be happy to share this giant list of notes, should either the author or the publisher wish to contact me. PLEASE send me a message over Goodreads so we can fix this great story. It has potential. It has heart. And overall, it weaves a good tale. But it also wildly missed the mark, and that good tale gets lost in the grammatical debris. Some conscientious, detail-oriented editing could really help this story deliver on its potential, and would consequently raise my rating of the book.
This book was won from the publisher through the Goodreads First Reads program.
One sentence in particular, at the beginning of the last paragraph on page 34, really sent me over the edge:
"We began to laugh as I am being starred at as I eat and the De Wali would pass me more to eat."
Not only does this sentence incorrectly use starred instead of stared and contain no punctuation at all, it also changes verb tenses three times. From this point on, I decided to take notes - only on the most egregious errors, not on the minor stuff, and certainly not on every mistake - and I ended up with a full page of notes. These notes include error categories (such as verb tense changes, gerund and prepositional phrases that are incorrectly linked to their antecedents, and run-on sentences), specific vocabulary problems where one word is incorrectly used in place of another (such as "bodies" for "body's" on page 75 in the next-to-last paragraph), and specific sentences that have major problems (such as the first sentence on page 93, which is a rambling smattering of phrases and actually has no grammatical subject at all).
Because I believe that the author's humanitarian work is important, and that this book could be good (these are also the ONLY reasons I managed to finish the book instead of putting it down after page 5), I would be happy to share this giant list of notes, should either the author or the publisher wish to contact me. PLEASE send me a message over Goodreads so we can fix this great story. It has potential. It has heart. And overall, it weaves a good tale. But it also wildly missed the mark, and that good tale gets lost in the grammatical debris. Some conscientious, detail-oriented editing could really help this story deliver on its potential, and would consequently raise my rating of the book.
This book was won from the publisher through the Goodreads First Reads program.
August 11, 2016
I received this book through Goodreads First Reads.
This was a very slow read for me, which I would've in no way been able to finish in one sitting. Although riddled with grammatical and stylistic errors, the raw sincerity adorning each and every line was enough to keep me engaged, especially during the latter half of the book. Ms. Lynn deftly provides an account of her philanthropic experiences alongside the idea of transcending cultural barriers through travel. She brings optimism to a poverty-stricken world in a heart-to-heart narrative with the reader, shedding light on the underlying theme of embracing life in its entirety. Thoroughly long-winded at times, this travel account doesn't quite hit all the right spots, but as a modest undertaking Philanthropic Wanderlust does manage to achieve exactly what it sets out to do.
This was a very slow read for me, which I would've in no way been able to finish in one sitting. Although riddled with grammatical and stylistic errors, the raw sincerity adorning each and every line was enough to keep me engaged, especially during the latter half of the book. Ms. Lynn deftly provides an account of her philanthropic experiences alongside the idea of transcending cultural barriers through travel. She brings optimism to a poverty-stricken world in a heart-to-heart narrative with the reader, shedding light on the underlying theme of embracing life in its entirety. Thoroughly long-winded at times, this travel account doesn't quite hit all the right spots, but as a modest undertaking Philanthropic Wanderlust does manage to achieve exactly what it sets out to do.
May 15, 2014
This book was very inspiring. It is very honourable what the author does. However I would have liked to know what was Danell's motivation in doing what she does and what makes her choose one country over the other. Also what does she do in between her trips. I felt that the links between each trip was missing.
May 17, 2014
I met this free-spirited and courageous author at a local bookstore. Her stories about her organizations to take quilts to the needy and art supplies and classes to the children in numerous countries is amazing. I wouldn't have the courage to do what she does naturally. I had to read more and enjoyed her book as it is written in a very honest and true voice.
January 23, 2014
Loved the concept, but it just did not deliver. Tenses kept changing, illustrations were spare to amateurish. Perhaps a strong editor would have helped to pull it all together.
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