Archive for the ‘BOOKS’ Category
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oct 12, 2008 – Karen Blue had a good career going in California when at 52, she quit, sold her house, and moved to Ajijic, Mexico. Her family and her [...]
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Feb. 27, 2008 – Yesterday morning Kelly and I drove back into Guadalajara, as I had a doctor’s appointment. We went in early enough to go to Sandi Bookstore, the largest English-language bookstore in Guadalajara. Being the book fanatic that I am, I had long been curious to check it out.
It’s a very attractive store [...]
Feb 10, 2008 — Julia Taylor didn’t plan to live in Mexico. She had a career as a salmon biologist and a life that was going just fine in Washington state. But when the U.S. government refused a permanent residence visa to her husband, a Mexican citizen, the young couple moved to Cuernavaca and started [...]
A compelling book on Mexico, history and more
It’s rare that I become so absorbed in a work of history that I gobble the book up. But I’ve become absorbed in The Life and Times of Mexico, by Early Shorris, an American who has a fascinating depth of understanding of Mexican history and has had friends [...]
The Rough Guide to Mexico 7th edition (Rough Guide Travel Guides) is actually very smoothly done! The name goes back over 20 years, when they began publishing typewritten [...]
I bought my first copy of The People’s Guide to Mexico over 25 years ago, and through the years various editions have been my faithful [...]
If you are an RV traveler going anywhere in Mexico, you need this book. There is nothing else like it out there. Without it, you won’t [...]
For over twenty years, Lonely Planet Mexico has been guiding travelers around Mexico. At over a thousand pages, this guidebook has extensive information about history, [...]
Live Better South of the Border, 4th Ed.: A Practical Guide for Living and Working covers similar material to The People’s Guide to Mexico, Choose [...]
Inside Mexico: Living, Traveling, and Doing Business in a Changing Society, by Paula Heusinkveld, is quite different from the other books reviewed here. It’s not [...]
