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He was not a natural-born adventurer and found life in the jungle difficult, to say the least. Jon Voelkel grew up in Peru, Costa Rica and Colombia. I found the biographical information on their website to be really interesting: They recently ordered their second bookplate design from us, with the Mayan theme evident in their artwork.

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Books in this series include Book One: Middleworld, Book Two: The End of the World Club, and Book Three: The River of No Return. J&P Voelkel write a really interesting adventure series called Jaguar Stones, based on historical facts about Mayan culture, appropriate for young readers. In addition, three of her novels have been optioned for the big screen, and Something Borrowed has been fast-tracked for an early 2010 shoot by the production companies of Hilary Swank and Edward Burns.” 24.According to her site, Giffin has been dubbed a “modern day Jane Austen” and a “dependably down-to-earth storyteller….Her five novels, all filled with her endearingly flawed characters and emotional complexity, have been translated into twenty-nine languages, with five million copies in print worldwide. Geronimo Johnson's satirical Welcome to Braggsville, and the time-travel sci-fi novel Version Control by Dexter Palmer.

It included Anthony Marra's books A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno, Atticus Lish's award-winning Preparation for the Next Life, Whitney Terrell's Iraq War novel The Good Lieutenant, T. In honor of the publication of her latest book, Dis Mem Ber in June 2017, Oates also shared her current reading list with The Week. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort.' The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. I think young people today might not realize how readable that novel is. 'I would say Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which had an enormous effect on me. When asked for her all-time favorite book, she said: In a 2013 interview with The Boston Globe, the prolific author Joyce Carol Oates revealed Dostoevsky as one of her favorite authors. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for The Norman Mailer Center

'Instead, I only hugged it to my chest.' 23. 'There was no reason not to burn this book too,' she writes. It was true that The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California was now my bible, but The Dream of a Common Language was my religion.'Īt one point during her arduous hike, she considers burning the book to save weight in her pack, as she did with other books she read along the trail. That book was a consolation, an old friend, and when I held it in my hands on my first night on the trail, I didn't regret carrying it one iota-even though carrying it meant that I could do no more than hunch beneath its weight. 'In the previous few years, certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I'd chanted to myself through my sorrow and confusion. Explaining in Wild the choice to bring along the extra weight in her pack, she writes: She had already read it enough times to almost memorize it in its entirety. One was a book of Adrienne Rich's poetry, The Dream of a Common Language. When the author of the bestselling memoir Wild set off on her journey up the Pacific Coast Trail, she only had room to take two books. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for American Lung Association

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