Best for: People who like trivia; nervous fliers. In a nutshell: Pilot answers common questions and provides fun anecdotes about commercial air travel. Line that sticks with me: “To a degree, each of these is open to interpretation, but there are four standard cabins: first class, business class, economy class, and Ryanair.” Why I chose it: Airport purchase Review: This was a mostly fun and interesting read. It starts strong, has some lags in the middle, has interesting bits 3/4 the way through, and ends […]
Good for Traveling, Not for Entertainment
I can remember back to middle school when we’d get the Scholastic book order catalogs, I’d skip over the Goosebumps, Encyclopedia Brown, and other stock middle school series, to get right to the section on geography. Be it a book on flags of the world, a specific region of the world, it didn’t matter; I wanted it! When the book would arrive I’d race home and begin absorbing all of the information it had to offer. This turned into travel lust as a teenager and […]