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Laura Lippman | Award winning author
New York Times bestseller
Sounds like a wonderful trip (sights and books).
Oh, Laura, you’ve made me so jealous. (Not that I didn’t already envy you for reasons having nothing to do with Africa.) If you ever go to China and visit the panda reserves, I will have no choice but to hate you.
I discovered Bill Bryson 15 years ago, when someone gave me “The Lost Continent.” I hated it from about page five, and finally threw it down in disgust when he visited Oxford, Miss., and made a big deal out of the black receptionist at the Faulker House, or something. Why, she seemed to move about her day without fear of lynching, and in the Deep South at that! Signs and wonders.
That kept me away from “A Walk in the Woods” until it hit paperback, but I was finally persuaded to pick it up by a trusted friend. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt.
Goes to show you never can tell.
P.S. I did hear Bryson interviewed once, and went back to my initial misgivings. If I’m remembering correctly, he speaks with this sort of semi-Brit accent, which I suppose is the result of living there, although my guess would be that expat Cubans can go back to Cuba and speak Spanish with their native accent. It just seemed to say “poser” to me.
The trip sounds wonderful. Let’s do Russia sometime, eh?
I probably would be way more envious of your trip if you hadn’t been near at least nine crocodiles. I mean, obviously since you posted that you were home (and updated the website), I knew you were fine but I still had a little bit of crocodile anxiety.
Didn’t Kipling call it “great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo river”? One of my favorite lines from the Just So Stories. I loved The Thunderbolt Kid and need to read more Bryson. It sounds like a great trip.
What a great trip Laura, thanks for sharing. I loved the croc story. Glad you had a good time.
Bryson’s accent seems “earned” to me — not overly British, but modified by his years of living there. And it’s a very pleasant reading voice. And in most of the work I’ve read, he’s the primary butt of the joke.
Kelly, the most dangeorus animal in Africa is . . . the hippo. An herbivore, the hippo has no innate desire to harm humans, but when humans block the hippo’s path to water, it gets nasty.
Hippos? Um, yeah, I think I’ll still keep the crocodile phobia.
Do you watch Nip/Tuck? Did you see the first episode? THEY HISS! And it’s scary.
I was just having my morning coffee and doing my morning perusal of Sarah Weinman’s site and learned that mutliple congratulations are due you:
“Oline Cogdill picks her top mysteries of 2007, with Laura Lippman’s WHAT THE DEAD KNOW heading up the list.
Lippman also cracks the Baltimore City Paper’s top 10 of 2007.”
All deserved and I suspect that there will be more to come as more lists come out. Congratulations and thank you for your work.