Wanderlust: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster

by Alice Hoffman, Annia Ciezadlo, Kimberley Freeman

A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster is your boarding pass to the beautiful, the mysterious, and the unknown. This book club sampler was created to pay homage to a book’s unique ability to transport your imagination around the world, taking you on journeys across distance and time. Whether you’re in the mood for a historical love story set on a sheep station in rural Australia or an illuminating memoir of life in the war-torn Middle East, these are books you and your reading group won’t want to Day of A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo, Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum, The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park, An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy. Each excerpt in Wanderlust is accompanied by a collection of bonus materials intended to enrich your reading experience, including discussion questions, suggestions for enhancing your book club meeting, and author interviews. In the spirit of looking to the horizon, we also asked each author featured in this sampler one “What is your favorite travel memory?” Their answers are fittingly diverse—from Christina Meldrum’s summers spent at a family cottage in Lake Margrethe, Michigan, to Alice Hoffman’s inspirational first trip to Masada, the setting of her epic new novel The Dovekeepers. Anuradha Roy, the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, describes the lure of armchair travel “All readers…carry within themselves sediments of the places they have traveled to in books, the people they’ve met on the way. Therefore the strange déjà vu is when you land in a foreign country and wonder if you’ve been there before.” So, sit back, relax, and get ready for the trip of a lifetime. Bon Voyage!

182 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 12, 2011

About the author

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here on Earth, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and the Practical Magic series, including Practical
Magic; Magic Lessons; The Rules of Magic, a selection of Reese’s Book Club; and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.

Reviews

[Lynn Bonelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great way to introduce yourself to some wonderful books to see if they are worth the time to read in full. I've added half of them to my "to-read" list.

[Sharayu Gangurde · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the memories and the little excerpts into our beloved authors' lives. Reading this book was like exploring a geographical expanse and terrain of absolute surprisingly beautiful landscapes. It's a peek into the world of good travel memories of food, places and people. What does one notice when one is travelling or not working apart from the humdrum of their monotonous lives? That is what one gets to read in Wanderlust. Delightful book. :)

[Ang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting sampler

This has been on my Kindle forever. In an effort to read oldest to newest it popped up. Considering them for future reads.