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A Little OT - Book recommendation
Yahoo Message Number: 111191
Hi, yall. I just finished a remarkable book that I wanted to share with my fellow RVers. I read most everything I can find about RVs and RVing. I have read and enjoyed a number of books (and websites and blogs) about RV trips and traveling (as an aside, if you enjoy these sorts of books, pick up any of Bernice Beard's books, as well), but the one I just finished really stands out. I challenge you, no, I dare you to read this book without laughing out loud. The couple in this book are both psychiatrists, and their obvious understanding of human frailties is brought to the front in the author's poking fun at herself and others.
 I am not good at book reviews, so will just copy the text from another site. If you are into humor and RVing, please read and enjoy this book.
 Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own Author: Doreen Orion

Book Description:
 A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.
 Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: She's a self-proclaimed Long Island princess, grouchy couch potato, and shoe addict. He's an affable, though driven, outdoorsman. When Tim suggests 'chucking it all" to travel cross-country in a converted bus, Doreen asks, 'Why can't you be like a normal husband in a midlife crisis and have an affair or buy a Corvette?" But she soon shocks them both, agreeing to set forth with their sixty-pound dog, two querulous cats--and no agenda--in a 340-square-foot bus.
 Queen of the Road is Doreen's offbeat and romantic tale about refusing to settle; about choosing the unconventional road with all the misadventures it brings (fire, flood, armed robbery, and finding themselves in a nudist RV park, to name just a few). The marvelous places they visit and delightful people they encounter have a life-changing effect on all the travelers, as Doreen grows to appreciate the simple life, Tim mellows, and even the pets pull together. Best of all, readers get to go along for the ride through forty-seven states in this often hilarious and always entertaining memoir, in which a boisterous marriage of polar opposites becomes stronger than ever.

Enjoy,

Lee
2000 TK
2014 Can-Am Spyder RT
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111201
On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Lee wrote:

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Hi, yall. I just finished a remarkable book that I wanted to share with my fellow RVers.....
 Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own Author: Doreen Orion
I don't know Lee. One shrink is bad enough, but two??? And one is a self-proclaimed Long Island princess, grouchy couch potato, and shoe addict.
Send me whatever drugs you are taking so I can enjoy the book as much as you did.

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Don & Dorothy
Sold our LD in June of 2023

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Traveling Dorothy
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111202
There's an author who writes crime fiction based in Alaska. Most of her tales feature a sled-dog racer, but she also has a string of stories about an older widow and her dachshund who travel by RV.
 Her name is Sue Henry, and the RV-oriented books carry the identifer "A Maxie and Stretch mystery".
 They're not that complicated, but an interesting evening companion. Check your local library - that's where I get mine.
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Yahoo Message Number: 111206
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"There's an author who writes crime fiction based in Alaska. Most of her tales feature a sled-dog racer, but she also has a string of stories about an older widow and her dachshund who travel by RV.
 Her name is Sue Henry, and the RV-oriented books carry the identifer "A Maxie and Stretch mystery".
 They're not that complicated, but an interesting evening companion. Check your local library - that's where I get mine."
I happened to have read The Serpents Trail by Henry.  Found it in the park hqs gift shop at Colorado Natl Monument outside Grand Junction, CO when I spend a night there.  Since it takes place in Grand Junction, I gave it a try.  It's a wee bit of mystery fluff; she's no Harlan Coben or Michael Connelly.

Chris Horst Arvada CO
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111226
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Send me whatever drugs you are taking so I can enjoy the book as much as you did.
So. In order for a person to enjoy a book you might not like, and almost assuredly did not read, they must have been on drugs?

Interesting point of view.

Miss Yo-Yo
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Yahoo Message Number: 111228
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So. In order for a person to enjoy a book you might not like, and almost assuredly did not read, they must have been on drugs?

Interesting point of view.

 I took Don's statement as being light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, not serious.

Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com
Linda Hylton
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111231
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So. In order for a person to enjoy a book you might not like, and almost assuredly did not read, they must have been on drugs?

Interesting point of view.


 "I took Don's statement as being light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, not serious."

Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com
Indeed, Linda is correct.  Don's sense of humor and posted retorts are dryer than Death Valley in a drought.

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111241
Indeed, Linda is correct.  Don's sense of humor and posted retorts are dryer than Death Valley in a drought.

Chris Not that Don's quirky responses are a bad thing....

TinaP 2006 MB "Wild Thing" LD 2967  NELD 59

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2006 MB
Re: A Little OT - Book recommendation
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Yahoo Message Number: 111255
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Indeed, Linda is correct.  Don's sense of humor and posted retorts are dryer than Death Valley in a drought.
It's all personal opinion, of course, but I see jokes at someone's expense at rather cruel.
 Others may see Don Rickles as a riot. Unless, of course, you're the target of his "humor" in which case you may have a different take on it . Publicly accusing someone of using drugs because they enjoy books you may not enjoy is just not my type of humor.

As it's said, YMMV and it almost surely will.

Miss YoYo
 
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Yahoo Message Number: 111257
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 Indeed, Linda is correct.  Don's sense of humor and posted retorts are dryer than Death Valley in a drought.
 It's all personal opinion, of course, but I see jokes at someone's expense at rather cruel.
 Others may see Don Rickles as a riot. Unless, of course, you're the target of his "humor" in which case you may have a different take on it . Publicly accusing someone of using drugs because they enjoy books you may not enjoy is just not my type of humor.

As it's said, YMMV and it almost surely will."

Miss YoYo
Believe us; it was humor; there were no personal accusations.  Get over it.  We are a friendly group.

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB