This Month in Reading
1 Sep
Every month we have been reflecting on the best things we read. Here are our best reads for August.
Rachel’s Reads
Blogs
- BootsnAll‘s Round the World Trip for Foodies idea is basically what I’m doing, except I’m not getting to South America this time around.
- This list of 33 foods worth traveling to eat on Migrationology looks great and was put together by lots of different bloggers.
- Mmm, Laotian food! I’m looking forward to it thanks to Splendor in the Lemongrass.
- Gary Arndt of Everything Everywhere makes some great points about why you should edit your travel photos. If you stick to basics (cropping, straightening, exposure and color correcting) like I do, it doesn’t even take very long!
- Uncornered Market showed me 10 delicious and cheap meals around the world.
- Never Ending Voyage made me hungry for Italy with their list of top 10 Tuscan eats.
- We’ll be in Beijing soon so I enjoyed reading CC Food Travel‘s post on 10 things to do in Beijing.
- Brooke vs the World wrote about her boyfriend not being a man in Mongolia. I’m anticipating a similar response for us…
Books - I read 2 books this month.
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin – The third book in A Song of Ice and Fire series (you may know it by the HBO series title, Game of Thrones). Also, as far as I can tell, the best one. It’s exciting and surprising things happen.
- A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin – This is the fourth book in the previous series. I enjoyed it but it only features about half of the characters.
Jeff’s Reads
Links
- How it should have ended: The Dark Knight Rises. Hilarious animation. These people have actually done the same thing for about 100 other movies.
- 7 year old boy wins Iceland’s ram groping contest.
- Giant list of foods that Mark Twain wanted to eat when he got home from Europe.
- 61 things learned at the national hobo convention.
- How do cats land on their feet? (Video)
- Thoughts on how the places we inhabit become a part of us.
Books - I read 3 books this month.
- The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford. This is the only noteworthy book I read this month. It’s something of a sequel to the one about Genghis Khan, but this one focuses on the huge role that Mongolian women played in ruling the empire. (Hint: there were many times when they pretty much ran the empire) I would recommend it!
What were your best reads this month?
Oooh, what a great list of food posts. Glad you enjoyed our Tuscany post and thanks for including us.
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No problem! Thanks for checking out the list.
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Being one of the least manly dudes I know, I can commiserate with this Pat fellow pretty well (although I am married, so… there’s that). I hope it doesn’t turn into a burden for you and Jeff, but I expect Jeff will be able to let it roll right off his back like it’s nothing at all.
Are you guys headed into the deep Mongolian wilderness, or are you sticking to more urban-y areas?
Tomorrow, we are off to see the wilderness in Arkhangai Province – wild horses, the old city of Karakorum, some extinct volcanoes and waterfalls and the like. I’ll be posting about urban stuff soon but basically we aren’t staying in UB much.
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Mmm, such a delicious range of different foods in this round-up. I really enjoyed the $2 meals post from Uncornered Market. Thanks for the mention as well!
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No problem, and thanks for checking out the list!
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