Member Reviews
Reviewer 1115853
In 1992 an inexperienced 18-year-old embarks on a journey that lasted for 30 years and throughout this journey, her travel journey has been shaped as she acquires knowledge and courage.
This book was not enjoyable because I didn't like the writing style that was used. This book comes across as a travel diary but is rather a collection of stories that happened over the years. The book ends up becoming disjointed as you jump from place to place without context.
Camille L, Reviewer
I picked "365 Dates of Travel: The Second Six Months" because I love reading non-fiction adventure books and memoirs, and I am a solo traveller myself. When I started the book, where the author present herself, I recognised myself in a lot of what she said (introverted, sensitive, prefer solitude...) and thought I'd probably enjoy the book. Unfortunately, I didn't.
"This book is not a diary, rather a collection of stories characterised by the date on which they occur", and the author uses snippets from original diaries to recount what happen on this specific day some years ago, in one country or another. It's not a year-long diary, it's a collection of one-day stories. That sounded like an original and interesting idea, but it didn't work so well because it ended up being disjointed. You jump from place to place without context, and it's disorientating. I tried reading it in order, and country by country, and by picking the same date as the one when I was reading the book, but I didn't get into it.
I didn't appreciate the writing style, and I didn't get the point of the story told. It's a description of often-meaningless details (e.g. what the author ate that day, what bus she took, how much the tickets/hotel etc. cost). If the point of the book is not to help people travel more conveniently, is not to tell funny anecdotes, is not to inspire readers, nor of recounting stories of meeting interesting people, then what's the point?
Some people may enjoy this book, but it just wasn't for me.
