A Year Without Make-Up: Tales of a 20-Something Traveler
A Year Without Make-Up: Tales of a 20-Something Traveler
Have you ever wanted to quit your job and go travel the world?At 25 years old Stephanie Yoder was already fed up with the monotony of 9-5 life. After much agonizing, she quit her stable desk job to backpack around Asia. During a year of travel through Japan, China and South East Asia she became a minor Chinese celebrity, was attacked by giant parrots and met the love of her life. In A Year Without Make-Up, Yoder chronicles some of her craziest adventures along with providing helpful
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Not a lot of insight or even information on her travels. All the “life lessons” seem pretty cliche. Still, she’s pretty brave to have traveled so much and lucky to have found someone to go with her!
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|Good read but a bit short,
I’m a new fan of Stephanie and I love how her blog is funny and encourages 20-somethings to travel.
I bought her book after a few other bloggers did positive reviews on their blogs.
Despite how much I like Stephanie’s blog, this is a review of the e-book so I’ll stick to that.
The book is made up of improved versions of her old blog posts. I have been wary about books using blog posts but the stories in the book didn’t feel like they were posts. Instead, they felt more like short short stories and were very entertaining.
Since I haven’t been following her blog for too long, some of the stories were new to me (for example, the one about 3D porn–you HAVE to read that). Those new discoveries were the best stories in the book.
My only gripe about the book is that it is too short. I was able to finished the book within an evening. I understand that $2.99 is the usual price for self-publishing authors but compared to other $2.99’s, “A Year Without Makeup” ended too soon.
Still, if you are a fan of Twenty-Something Travel, this is a good chance to support the writer that you like. But the thought that part of the money will go to Thought Catalog (the publisher) gives me a stomachache.
However, if you are looking for a long read about traveling, then Catherine Ryan Howard might be a better choice for the same price.
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|Armchair Escapism,
I really enjoyed this. I’m a casual reader of Stephanie’s blog, so I’ve read some of these pieces before in another form, but this flows together very nicely. Her writing style one that I really like…self-deprecating and funny, without any sort of self-aggrandizing or preachiness that some traveler bloggers get after a while. Anyway, strong recommend.
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