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Category Archives: Expat Related Book Reviews
Forced to Fly: Expat Survival Guide
The second edition of Jo Parfitt’s Forced To Fly is the much anticipated, updated anthology of expat experiences – finding humour in the strangest of circumstances and unusual places – and is a great read on many levels. The book is in … Continue reading →
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Tagged advice for expats, advice for living overseas, apple gidley, expat anthology, expat experiences, expat hukour, expat humor, Forced to Fly, funny side of life, humor, humour, jack scott, jae de wylde, jo parfitt, Linda A Janssen, sarah koblow, summertime publishing, travel, travel and humour
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An Inconvenient Posting: Everyone’s Had One
In its broadest sense an expat is defined as someone living outside his/ her birth country. There are various reasons for expats living overseas; some by choice, others following a company remit. For the latter, personal preference or convenience can … Continue reading →
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Tagged An Inconvenient Posting, coping with depression, depression and expats, expat challenges, expat depression, expats and depression, feeling depressed, feeling lost, homesick overseas, Laura J Stephens, loss of home and family, loss of identity, recovering from depression, solutions for depressive episodes
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Fly Away Home
Like many, I’m fascinated by the lives of other people, how patterns weave themselves through the generations, how shared DNA links us to people we can never meet. How many times in our own lives have things happened and we’ve … Continue reading →
Expat Life: Slice by Slice
March saw Apple Gidley in Washington DC, in her capacity as Board Director of Families in Global Transition, who held their annual conference in the US capital. It was also the month her much anticipated book Expat Life: Slice by Slice was … Continue reading →
Facing Fears: Linda A. Janssen on the Launch of Turning Points
Linda A. Janssen is a dynamic women I respect as a writer. Linda has many ongoing projects the latest being Turning Points, launched this week, which she writes about below. Having read the book and already written one review I can … Continue reading →
Sunshine Soup: Global Nourishment from Jo Parfitt
So here it finally is, after a quarter of a century writing non-fiction books (27 published), Jo Parfitt has finally achieved the dream of putting her first fictional book on the shelves. She is a whirlwind of energy and passion. … Continue reading →
‘Jump Down Under’ with Iain Ayres : You Won’t Regret It
What is it about Australia? Every time I turn around somebody’s son or daughter is travelling there, friends are heading out for extended stays and numerous people I know are in the process of submitting paperwork for visas to go … Continue reading →
Expat Book Review: Sammy’s Next Move, Helen Maffini
It hadn’t occurred to me until recently how few books are written for young expat children facing another international move. Once you start to look around the dearth of literature is obvious. Which is why I picked up this book. Having … Continue reading →
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Tagged american school of the hague, emotional resilience and the expat child, expat children, helen maffini, jo parfitt, Julia Simens, mike swaim, moving overseas with young children, Sammys next move, third culture kids, women's information network, writers abroad radio show
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Book Review: The Singing Warrior, Niamh Ni Bhroin
This book has been on my ‘to read’ list for some time and I’m sorry to say I’ve put off reading it because of its subtitle, ‘Finding Happiness After a Life Filled with Pain and Abuse.’ I admit this is … Continue reading →
Interview with Michael Harling, author of the ‘Postcards From Across the Pond’ series
I recently had the opportunity to interview Michael Harling, author of Postcards from Across the Pond and More Postcards from Across the Pond, both reviewed in earlier posts. The books recount with humor and sharp observation his adjustment, culturally and … Continue reading →
Book Review: More Postcards from Across the Pond, Michael Harling
I recently reviewed Michael Harling’s book Postcards from Across the Pond and was delighted to discover he has just published his second, More Postcards From Across the Pond. As the first book was so fresh in my mind I immediately … Continue reading →
Book Review – Expat Women: Confessions, Andrea Martins and Victoria Hepworth
Before we start could I ask those who have arrived on this page under a misapprehension to please leave? This is not a blog to entice bored or jaded readers with thoughts of what expat women may or may not (usually … Continue reading →
Expat Book Review: Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, Julia Simens
Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: practical tips and storytelling techniques that will strengthen the global family, Julia Simens I was excited to be asked to read and review Julia Simens book, having raised three global nomads. I guess I wanted to see where … Continue reading →
Book Review: Postcards from Across the Pond, Michael Harling
I was looking forward to reviewing this book having made Michael Harling’s journey in reverse, traversing the pond from east to west. Like him, I’d assumed life couldn’t be so very different when the two nations spoke the same language … Continue reading →
Dilemma of a Beach Book Junkie: How Do You Chose the Perfect Read?
I’ve been looking for beach books to download to my Kindle as mentioned in a previous post. So far I have found nothing. I decided to start with ‘Top Ten beach Books’ – I love google – and searches of that … Continue reading →
Loving my Kindle: Why Everyone Should Have One
I will stand up now and say I used to have no time for the Kindle. It went against every bone in my body not to hold a real book, feel the texture of the paper and inhale the woody, musky scent when you turned the pages. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amazon Kindle, cataracts and reading a kindle, E-book, Kindle, kindle best to read with cataracts, kindle better for eyesight, the perfect gift for readers, why I love my kindle, why I would chose to read a kindle, why reading a kindle is better than reading a book
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Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of an (un)Diplomatic Wife by Cherry Denman
For anyone who has lived abroad, is planning on living abroad or just dreams of it, this is a book to get you started. Delightful in its honesty, upbeat and gloriously irreverent you can share in the nightmare of life overseas … Continue reading →
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And Death Came Third: Facing Your Fears
I was chatting with someone recently and they mentioned a book whose title has played on my mind ever since. Called And Death Came Third, it was the title which initially caught my interest. I haven’t read the book (yet) but the idea … Continue reading →