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Tone Deaf In Bangkok by Janet Brown

From the back cover: As a bookseller, Janet Brown had every opportunity to learn about Bangkok before she moved there. Guide books lay the ground work, photography books set the mood, but nothing prepared her for what she found - a city as sensuous, irreverent, reverent and indescreet as the stories she tells in Tone Deaf in Bangkok.

Whether eating noodles for breakfast, struggling with the multi-toned language, sipping Scotch laced with honey, or falling in love with a man many years her junior, Janet knew that she had found her soul mate: Bangkok. Even when she was ostracized from her local neighborhood, even when she had to skirt sleeping dogs and itinereant kitchens on the sidewalks every single day, and even when she woke to the sound of gunshots while traveling in nearby Cambodia, life here made sense to her, precisely because it made no sense.

Not only did Bangkok change Janet's life, it gave her the life she felt she was always meant to live. Join her as she interprets this electrifying city with the sense of humor and devotion it deserves. (I read a review for this book by Wisteria at Bookworm's Dinner)

The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

From Librarything.com: Beard's first book, The Boys of My Youth, is a collection of exquisitely autobiographical essays that have the arc and thrust of good fiction. She portrays herself as wary of the world, someone who looks up at the night sky and worries that the "moon is looking at me funny."... Beard's high-wire trick is that despite her grievous subject matter, she hangs on to her squinty, skinny-girl-on-the-sidelines sense of humor and never lapses into mawkishness. (Read an article by the author on MSN.com).

What did YOU find today?