Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading

Max Hartshorne, travel website editor, sharing some of the stuff I read, hear and see with you. Updated every day. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Trophy Wives Are Becoming a Thing of the Past

May 10, 2012

I think we’re making pretty good progress as a society. I say this today after reading a Boston Globe article declaring that the era of the trophy wife has passed, men no longer want to put the young lithe stay-at-home women on their arm and women are becoming far more picky about which older men [...]

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Plane Reader eBooks Add Zest

May 9, 2012

Random bits from what’s going on in my universe include a book called Íf You Can’t Make It Here, GET OUT, a tough love guide to New York City Living.  This book will be excerpted on GoNOMAD. I was quite cheered when I heard that our Italy ebook is selling at about 9 every day. [...]

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Ha-Ha’s Bring Laughs to the Arts Block on Friday. FUNNY! Really.

May 7, 2012

Pam Victor of Pelham takes comedy pretty seriously. In fact she says that her form of comedy, the unscripted theater , is what’s in vogue with improv makers around the US. She’s coming with The Ha-Ha’s to Greenfield’s Arts Block on Friday night, the first time a comedy show has been performed there. The Ha-ha’s [...]

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Who Will Wake Me Up When They Go?

May 7, 2012

For the past seven years I’ve lived with a family consisting of two small children and two adults. In the morning when I get up, the sounds of the youngsters playing, fighting or screeching for their mom was what woke me up. Even though I am now ready to see them settle into their own [...]

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LBJ’s Power Broker Legacy Began While He Was in College

May 6, 2012

I read an interview today in the WSJ with Robert Caro, the historian famous for his super sized collection of books about Lydon Baines Johnson. He told Brian Bolduc a story that revealed a lot about the man who would be president, then decide not to run again. When LBJ was in college, said Caro, [...]

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Writing Is Harder for Some and Gadgets Easier for Others

May 4, 2012

Writing is much harder than you’d think it would be. I get this every time I sit down with someone far more technically proficient than me, what I get is that to them, the hardest thing is thinking of what to say. That’s not true for a long-time blogger; our problem is that we have [...]

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