Barely a Book Club #14: A Dervla Delirium
“If anyone ever asks you to drive three donkeys and a foal for twenty-four miles through the Karakoram Mountains, be very firm and refuse to do so."
Barely a Book Club #13: Full Tilt
Roxane Hudon introduces Dervla Murphy's Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle.
Barely a Book Club #12: One for the Lord, One for the Serf
Last call at the Red Ox Inn.
Barely a Book Club #11: All Was Frozen
A guilt-free winterlude.
Barely a Book Club #10: A Time of Gifts
The holidays are upon us and the year is nearly over, but I did not want to see 2023 out without a last dispatch to kick off our fourth selection: Patrick...
Barely a Book Club #9: Dreaming of Kalpa Imperial
This is the third, and final, installment of our book club’s series on Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. You can...
Barely a Book Club #8: Kalpa Imperial
Welcome back to Barely a Book Club, an offshoot of the Something Good newsletter. This instalment is the official kick-off for our third selection, Angélica...
Barely a Book Club #7: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Angélica Gorodischer. I’ve described the general topic of this season of Barely a Book Club as “travel writing, about places real and imaginary.” Our next...
Barely a Book Club #6: Goodbye Patagonia
This is the third, and final, installment of our book club’s series on Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia. You can read the first post here. In 2019, Rough Guide...
Barely a Book Club #5: Suggested Listening
Happy July. I was wondering how everyone was getting on reading Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, our current Barely a Book Club selection. Myself, I am about...
Barely a Book Club #4: Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
Please contact me if you can provide a photo of what lies beneath this (admittedly beautiful) dust jacket. There’s a startling moment very early in Werner...
Barely a Book Club #3: Lost in the Maze of Hav
Dirleddy, We find ourselves now at the conclusion of our first Barely a Book Club selection: Jan Morris’s Hav. (Newcomers can read the introductory post...
Barely a Book Club #2: An Extension
I am learning so much running this book club. Here is the first, and most important thing: four weeks was not enough time for most of you to source a copy of...
Barely a Book Club #1: Hav, by Jan Morris
When I chose the topic of this club’s first season, travel writing about places real and imaginary, there was only one book I could I imagine as its first...
Something Good: Barely a Book Club
This season’s theme: travel writing. The first selection: Hav, by Jan Morris. Go get it, and expect more info soon!