![]() ![]() ![]() I want to believe that this is the same for millions of readers all over the world. ![]() Truly, if there’s a special passport that gets stamped every time I travel in books, I would have to renew it every year. ![]() Imagine how often I’ve been to England from reading books by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Barbara Cartland, Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, and Johanna Lindsey. Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence had me enthralled with the South of France years before I toured Europe in 1999. I had seen the grandeur of the Sydney Opera House through Emma Darcy’s Harlequin romances set in Australia before I beheld it for the first time in 1998. Judith Krantz’s I’ll Take Manhattan familiarized me with New York City landmarks prior to my first visit there in 1994. Thankfully, I had a bookworm for a father and a teacher for a mother who both encouraged me from a young age to read books that took me all over the world before I was able to actually travel to the locations in which they were set. I grew up in the Philippines and coming from a poor family, I did not have the resources to travel out of my birth country until I was already a working adult. “ A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.” Katrina Mayer ![]()
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