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  1. TrvlDad1

    Favorite Pilgrimage Memoir *Not* Set on the Camino Francés?

    If you define pilgrimage broadly, consider Seven Pilars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence, Motoring With Mohammed by Eric Hansen (don’t assume the title is indicative), or Full Tilt by Durvla Murphy.
  2. TrvlDad1

    Seeking books/articles for someone who hasn't heard of the camino

    Perhaps show or buy her Briarley’s guide book which has commentary and might comfort her as to ease and accommodations.
  3. TrvlDad1

    The Journey - Elyn Aviva

    Thanks, that goes without saying, your bibliography is a great resource. And if you’ve read all of those books, you’re beyond a scholar.
  4. TrvlDad1

    The Journey - Elyn Aviva

    Not to belabor the point, but I thought the Camino was used here solely as a prelude to set-up the occult and, as such, was degrading to the Camino as most of us see it...a spiritual place of reality where we go for peace and comfort. But again, to each his/her own.
  5. TrvlDad1

    The Journey - Elyn Aviva

    Yes, I'm a little late to the "seance," I guess. But thought a review might be helpful to anyone thinking of reading this book.
  6. TrvlDad1

    The Journey - Elyn Aviva

    I picked this book up off David Tallan's bibliography of Camino books. I think it is a bit loose to call it a Camino book. It progresses from mystical to occult to weird and, in my opinion, degrades the Camino with the scenes it sets thereon. But to each his own, I guess. It is different if...
  7. TrvlDad1

    Wrapping up the Book Club, 2021

    Thank you and David for the Book Club run. Agree it’s run it’s course, but I enjoyed acquainting myself with the Camino “genre.” Still have several yet to read and will post comments when finished.
  8. TrvlDad1

    Book Club 3.3 - The Roland Medals by Maureen Cashman.

    Agree. So many possible plots, so few fiction books about the Camino. There is a terrorist thriller of sorts that was the first fiction selection of the Book Club’s fiction theme, titled Merchant’s List. Worth the read, good plot.
  9. TrvlDad1

    Book Club 3.3 - The Roland Medals by Maureen Cashman.

    I suggested The Roland Metals after seeing it on David Tallan's bibliography of Camino books. It is one of relatively few fiction books about the Camino in the bibliography, which is surprising given the rich possibilities of the Camino and its long and dramatic history. I loved the plot and...
  10. TrvlDad1

    Book Club 3.2, Fiction - Atlas of Places that Could or Should have Existed on the Camino de Santiago

    Yes, I ordered it online in paperback. It was curious; I found myself researching places, people and events mentioned. Some were real, but the dots didn’t connect. But the Camino is mystical anyway, so who knows what might have been.
  11. TrvlDad1

    Book Club 3.2, Fiction - Atlas of Places that Could or Should have Existed on the Camino de Santiago

    ATLAS of Places that Could or Should have existed on the Camino de Santiago is the second of our Book Club fiction selections. The author, Jeffery Barrera, is a Camino guide and Forum member who characterizes ATLAS as "...fiction and fantasy; perhaps the two traits that have humanized best our...
  12. TrvlDad1

    The Garden of Happy Endings

    Stevelm1, Merchant’s List is the current Camino Book Club 3.1 selection. Would love to have you post a review on that thread. And thank you for the other fiction books. We’ll consider them for the BC3.1. Bob
  13. TrvlDad1

    The Garden of Happy Endings

    We have a Camino book club (Book Club 3.1 thread) on the Forum, and the selections for the next several books will be fiction (as opposed to memoirs). You are welcome to post a recommendation on that thread with your review, and we may select it for a future read. Fiction books about the Camino...
  14. TrvlDad1

    Book Club 3.1, Fiction - Merchant's List

    OK, we've skewered some hard-writing memoir authors from east to west, north to south, and to the end of the world. So how about a fiction break. I found a few fiction books about the Camino on David Tallan's bibliography, ordered a couple and think there are some worth reading and critiquing...
  15. TrvlDad1

    Forum Book Club - 2.2: Northbound (Paul McGranaghan)

    I actually enjoyed this book once I got into and plowed through it. But his opening section "Creation" was bizarre and not really connected to the theme, I thought. Also, it's a self-published book which always seems to mean unpolished, un-proofed and poorly organized. But his writing was...
  16. TrvlDad1

    Forum Book Club - 2.3: The Man with the Camino Tattoo (Dermot Breen)

    Thank you for taking up the mantle. I probably will miss or be quite late reading this one (I chair another Book Club that selects epic tomes). I have enjoyed all the other Book Club selections even though we seem to be tough critics. I have read a couple of fictionalized Camino books from your...
  17. TrvlDad1

    Forum Book Club - 2.1: Sinning Across Spain (Ailsa Piper)

    A little late to this version of the Book Club party but finished Sinning Across Spain... last night The descriptions and encounters were interesting, but I found myself questioning Ailsa's motives and mood swings. Perhaps she was carrying more of her own baggage than her benefactors sins. In...
  18. TrvlDad1

    Forum Book Club - 1.4 - The Great Westward Walk (Antxon González Gabarain)

    Just finished the English translation and it is a unique, informative and inspiring book. The "advantage" Bolitz has over other Camino books is his broad and deep history with the Camino as a resident along it. But more poignantly, he has the tragic advantage of writing the book knowing it's his...
  19. TrvlDad1

    Forum Book Club - 1.2 - To the Field of Stars (Kevin Codd)

    I thought it was a very spiritual, even religious book, by a very human individual who wrote an honest and balanced account of his camino, incorporating his church and assessing himself. It's not mine, I much prefer the solitude of the off-season and walking alone. But I admire and greatly envy...
  20. TrvlDad1

    Am I the only one who...

    I finished The Year We Seized the Day and thought Elizabeth Best was honest and changed/uplifted by the Camino, but I thought Colin Bowles was probably insincere and just wrote a cursory "epiphany ending." But I hope he was helped, he needed it.

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