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Title: Traveling While Married by Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren, Edward Koren ISBN: 1-56512-319-0 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great vacation pick-me-up
Comment: "I, Mary-Lou, take thee, Larry, to be my constant traveling companion, to Hong and to Kong, in Cyclades and in Delft, for deck class or deluxe, so long as we both can move."
And so veteran travel writer Weisman gets her first laugh before the first page. This is a great book to read in an airport, waiting for a delayed flight, say, with an impatient spouse. The pieces are short, clever, affectionate, and funny. From packing to coming-home fantasies, Weisman puts things in perspective. She understands her own shortcomings - and her husband's - and mines them to full effect.
Larry likes camping, authenticity, moving where the spirit takes him. Mary-Lou does not. "I travel the way I cook. I follow directions like a fascist....I don't improvise and I don't make substitutions." As for authenticity, Weisman tells a funny story of Paris in their youth, a night in a cheap hotel that turned out to be a whorehouse, followed by a morning in the public baths and concludes, "If you're the sort of person who insists upon having a wonderful time while you're on vacation, authenticity may not be your thing."
On packing, she's wistfully reminded of a friend who traveled to India taking only clothes she was tired of wearing and leaving an outfit behind in each place she stayed. Neither of the Weismans is so disciplined. "I'm always the one to give in to temptation first, a precedent established by Eve in Genesis 3....I am seized by a perverse and irresistible urge to pack more."
Weisman, needless to say, likes her comfort. So it's a real act of love when she agrees to a white water rafting trip for Larry's 50th birthday. She already knows she's going to have a horrible time. "But as well as I know myself, I have failed to take into account a serious character flaw that is serving me well on this trip. I tend to behave myself when people are watching."
The flip side is their spa trip the following year. Larry is determined to hate it. When she says that yoga will make him feel "stretchy and catlike," he responds, "If I want to feel catlike, I'll get a litter box." But even that one works out well - for Larry. Then there's fantasy real-estate purchases in Paris, boredom on a Caribbean beach, and a few adventures which are better in anticipation than reality, like sand-boarding in Chile, and trekking in Tibet.
Weisman's writing is engaging enough to take the irritation out of misplaced reservations. Every reader will find their traveling selves somewhere in these pages - and find them pretty likable too. This is a great book to take on vacation (it's small!). Or give to a grouchy spouse.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't go away without this
Comment: Mary-Lous Weisman, a seasoned veteran of both marriage and travel has written a hilariously funny handbook for those travelling in tandem. She explores the trauma of packing for two, the necessary compromises about what to see, eat, and buy (or not) and describes the triumphs and failures she has had on the road, the high seas and in the air in the company of her husband, Larry. This vital information is contained in one of the funniest books I've ever read. Serious stuff, like the hotel without a view or central heating in a place that was advertised as warm and picturesque sounds like a little glitch to be overcome. And there's practical information too.For instance, if you're bored out of your skull on a slow (and expensive) French barge trip get bicycles and meet the other passengers at the next four- star auberge. We've all experienced the unplanned for event that threatens to ruin a trip. But , with only a few exceptions, such catastrophes seem to melt under the uniqe, slightly off center, but always fresh viewpoint that is Mary-Lou's sense of humor. You will find yourself reading the book aloud to strangers on the bus who will try to wrench it out of your hands as you move to get off. And, if your friends are like mine, a gift of this book will send them off to buy copies for every innocent they know is about to go abroad without the protection of Mary-Lou's wisdom.
Even if you're staying at home this book is a trip. As for those who are travelling with their mates Traveling While Married is as vital to a successful voyage as getting those shots if you're going to a places where you're warned not to drnk the water. Watch the divorce rate go down as sales of this book go up. Strike a blow for family values buy this charming,riotously funny, must-read book.
Rating: 5
Summary: HUMOR AT THE TOP OF ITSs FORM
Comment: I can not keep this book in my house. I keep buying a copy and giving it away because it is so wonderful. Mary Lou Weisman is one of the top humor writers in this country. She has wit, charm, a joyful use of the English language, imagination, heart, intelligence, savy, and class. And that's for starters!
It's been a long time since I have laughed out loud. One of my favorite chapters is about the time they rented a house in Italy.
Ms. Weisman says about the disappointment of the house ..
"Sometimes you have a view and sometimes you are the view".
Anyone who has travelled, is about to travel, or who dreams of travel in partnership has to read this book. It's perfect for anyone 20-80. She is a first rate American humorist.
I simply love this book!
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Title: Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan ISBN: 0670032069 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family by Laura Kalpakian ISBN: 0380806592 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Gardener's Bed-Book : Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by RICHARDSON WRIGHT, DOMINIQUE BROWNING ISBN: 0812968735 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Verb To Bird by Peter Cashwell, Grant Silverstein ISBN: 1589880013 Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Middle-Aged Baby Book by Mary-Lou Weisman, Paul Meisel ISBN: 1563058170 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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