Yxvandoolu's USA reading trip

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Yxvandoolu's USA reading trip

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1Yxvandoolu
Redigerat: aug 7, 2011, 5:54 am

Will be widening what I read on many fronts - all in connection with the 11 in 11 Challenge. So it may take some time to get across the US... :-)

Alabama -
Alaska -
Arizona -
Arkansas -
California -
Colorado -
Connecticut -
Delaware -

Florida

Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida by Catherine Ryan Howard

Georgia -
Hawaii -
Idaho -
Illinois -
Indiana -
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Kentucky -
Louisiana -
Maine -
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Michigan -
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New Hampshire -
New Jersey -
New Mexico -
New York -
North Carolina -
North Dakota -
Ohio -
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Oregon -
Pennsylvania -
Rhode Island -
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Tennessee -
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Virginia -
Washington -
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Wisconsin -
Wyoming -


Map created at http://www.world66.com/myworld66/ (Visited States)

2Yxvandoolu
Redigerat: aug 7, 2011, 5:48 am

Florida

Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida by Catherine Ryan Howard
Selfpublished in Paperback and Kindle
Paperback, 232 pages

This is not a book about Disney in any way, although you do learn a bit about it. It is a travel book written by a young European girl going to Orlando, Florida.

At the age of 24, Catherine from Cork, Ireland takes a job with a hotel just outside Disney World in Orlando. She is a life long Disney fan, and is extremely excited to be going to this "land of pixie dust". However, reality is very different. As a European girl, she is used to be able to survive without a car - but this is not the case here. So until she get's her car, she is miserable, but then things change and she starts to explore her new world.

Catherine is a space flight fan and uses quite a few pages about the space program and how fantastic it was to be able to send someone to the moon. She is also very interested in Celebration - the Disney-built town close to Disney World. Having not read anything about it for some years, she is very interested in seeing how it is going. Was it all the inhabitants had hoped for?

Catherine writes in a very light and engaging fashion that makes you green with envy (not Irish green). The book is a light read and can be easily read as a secondary book - for when you need a lighter read than your main book. It is easily picked up again after a week or two's pause.

One thing that might disturb some of a more religious mindset is that Catherine calls herself an atheist. To me, she is nothing more than a young person living in a community where religion was a normal part of life - and she has had too much (so far). You see the same with children/grandchildren of ministers/preachers/priests.
She comments her about religion (here Christianity as that is what she comes into contact with) are, for me, just as an outside observer - wondering and questioning. She is not malicious in any way in my book.

So, if you want to go on a trip of the Orlando-area of Florida - take a trip with Catherine to see: Disney World, Universal Studio Theme Park, Kennedy Space Center, The Holy Land Experience (a religious theme park), Sea World, Gatorland and Celebration.

Have a nice trip!

Extra material (cut chapter and photos) can be found on the book’s website.

The author has a new book coming out soon about her backpack adventure across Central America - right after her Florida adventure. She has also published an apparently good book about selfpublishing.

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