This week’s quote is from one of my favorite travel writers, Bill Bryson. He says:

But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Review-wise, it was an infinitesimally slow week. (You can see all the reviews here.)

Tiny Librarian checked in this week with Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin, by Susan Reinhardt, a collection of “food stories, culinary missteps, and recipes from yummy to yucky.” Tiny Librarian’s verdict: “A quick, funny, foodie read, perfect for this challenge.”

Lily read one of my all-time favorites, Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi. Lily writes, “For me, Azar Nafisi gave me the greatest gift a writer can give to a reader: a new appreciation for literature, which sadly and quite unconsciously I have started to take for granted.” Very true.

And Amira checked in with Banker to the Poor, by Muhammad Yunus, which deals with microlending and the World Bank, two things I know absolutely nothing about it. Amira writes, “The book is recommended, although it didn’t really clear up any of the controversy over microcredit, for me.”

Here’s hoping for more next week!