Albany Public Library discussion

Welcome to the FINAL week of the Winter Reading Challenge! Thank you for following us on this journey! We've had a great time creating the reading lists and chatting with you all in the comments!

This week we'll visit places all over the world without having to leave the house! But my Apple Watch claims it's 52 degrees outside, so you may actually WANT to leave the house!

Have you traveled anywhere "in real life" recently, or visited somewhere exciting in a book?! Tell us in the comments!

Fiction
Next Year in Havana
The Golden Hour
Exit West
Beautiful Ruins
My Year Abroad
A Long Petal of the Sea
The people we meet on vacation

Graphic Novels
An Age of License: A Travelogue
You & a Bike & a Road
Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, One Minicar, Sixty Crabs, Eighty Bites and Fifty Shots of Shochu

Nonfiction
In a Sunburned Country
A Year in Provence
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

I spent so much of my teenagehood reading Bill Bryson travelogues... In a Sunburned Country is great, but my heart belongs to Notes from a Small Island.

I haven't traveled since before the pandemic began, but I'm finally about to start Malibu Rising and take an armchair vacation to sunny California. Perfect late-winter reading, right?

I like where your head is at Diana!

Diana wrote: "I spent so much of my teenagehood reading Bill Bryson travelogues... In a Sunburned Country is great, but my heart belongs to Notes from a Small Island.

I haven't traveled since before t..."

No other hiking memoirs measure up after reading - and laughing through - Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.

I'm rereading A Walk in the Woods this week! For President's Week, I visited Hildene, the Vermont estate of Abe Lincoln's son Robert. It stayed in the family until very recently, so a lot of the furnishings date back to the 1800s!

Kathleen wrote: "I'm rereading A Walk in the Woods this week! For President's Week, I visited Hildene, the Vermont estate of Abe Lincoln's son Robert. It stayed in the family until very recently, so a lot of the fu..."

I love how you honored the holiday. So often we default to using these holidays for extra sleep and shopping the sales.

I traveled to the Norman Rockwell Museum to see the Jane Brett exhibit- it was great! It was fascinating to learn how she gathered inspiration for all her stories and artwork by traveling to various countries and immersing herself in the culture. The exhibit is up until March 6 so you still have some time to go!