my brain wants a holiday

'Voices', an illustrated anthology of poetry from various sources. The illustrations are not directly related to the poems, but are often indirectly related in wonderful ways :)

(I've never read them in English so far + I needed my dose of fairy tales ;))

^Pico Iyer.... awesome!
was that book published recently?
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interesting article about his father:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...0/ai_n13993246

Nope, first edition 1989. Sent to me by a friend who spent most of her childhood living here and there in Asia as the daughter of the last American ambassador to Burma. Sorry for hijack, also reading:

^Ohhhhhhh. Flashback to 1994, when I was reading that in Arizona, and digging a really big hole, both literally and figuratively.