Go Girl Travel Network is excited to announce the launch of our Travel Book Club! This series is a great way for Go Girls near and far to connect online…
Introducing the 2012 Go Girl Holiday Gift Guide
It’s December 1st, and if you’re anything like us, you’re scrambling to get your holiday shopping done (or maybe you’re just sitting back and procrastinating — either way, we support…
Dancing in the Fountain: A Review
Karen McCann delivers a great how-to guide with her new novel “Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad.” As a person who has never lived abroad or been…
How to Live Life [Abroad]: A Review of Karen McCann’s “Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad”
When Karen McCann undertakes uprooting herself from the U.S. with her husband, she does it with a joyful bent. In her work, Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living…
Ooh la la! Puff Pastry at Brunch? Yes, please!
Who doesn’t love brunch? Raise your hand so I know to avoid you. Brunch culture is inviting, endearing, and tasty. Combine the richness and laziness of a late-morning brunch with…
California Dreaming: 5 Books for California
Looking for a great read to accompany your trip to California? Read what Margaret has to say about her five top picks. Click on the title links to purchase a…
5 Books for Road Trips
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Probably the most famous road trip book ever written, Kerouac’s fictionalization of his cross-country wanderings is known as the book of the Beat Generation,…
5 Books for London
5 books for London Orlando by Virginia Woolf One of her lesser known but most beautiful and accessible novels, Orlando: A Biography–written for Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West–is the fantastical…
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Looking for an Extreme Read?
[pullquote] Why are we so fixated with such tales, gory and clichéd as they may be? The very gruesomeness of the material is an undeniable source of fascination. Yet our…
Review: The Lost Girls
Review on the Go: Though anyone over the age of 40 may need to read while accompanied by a copy of the Urban Dictionary, this book, chronicling a year of travel centered around three mid-20s women and their many adventures, is a great travel read for the beach, the salsa club, the hostel and anywhere else you can find a cute guy.
Review: Slow Love
Review-on-the-Go: Slow Love by Dominique Browning is a tale of a magazine editor who breaks down in the recent economic crisis and slowly builds herself up again. Don’t be deceived by the hard cover and pretty text: this is a better beach read than anything else.
Review: The Places In Between
Review on the Go: The Places In Between chronicles Rory Stewart’s walk across Afghanistan in the winter of 2002. Part travel memoir, part history lesson, and part rumination on all things from global politics to local hospitality, The Places In Between is engaging, well-written, and definitely worth a read.
Following Márquez in cartagena
Dostoevsky had Moscow, Dickens had London, and Neruda had Valparaiso. Many writers have painted beautiful (or beautifully depressing) snapshots of cities, making us feel like we’ve visited and walked the…
Review: A Week at the Airport
Review on the Go: Alain de Botton’s A Week at the Airport, a slim book about a week the author spent living at Heathrow airport and writing about what he…