"A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places." -Isabelle Eberhardt
"A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places." -Isabelle Eberhardt

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

- Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Aimee Geurts The Book Nomad

“Bony Legs” by Joanna Cole is the first book I remember loving. A book I still re-read to this day. I have my original copy with my childhood scrawl on the inside of the front cover A-I-M-E-E, marking it as MY book. I even have the main character, Sasha, tattooed on my back. From “Bony Legs” to “Sweet Valley Twins” and “The Babysitter’s Club,” my childhood love of reading grew, winning me contests at the local library and even getting me grounded from reading because I wouldn’t get my chores done because I was reading too much. 


Eventually, during college, life found me working in a perfectly, dim-lit Brentano’s bookstore. If ever a deal was sealed, it was my love of reading. My favorite task was shelving the books, taking time to read the synopsis of each one, learning the story the book held inside. Sadly, Brentano’s eventually became an extremely over-lit Waldenbooks, a nightmare in fluorescent. It wasn’t enough to break me of my love of reading, but it was enough to move me on from my time working in bookstores. 


These days, I use my love of books to connect with people. If I’ve found someone who shares my loves of stories and tall-tales, I know I’ve found someone I consider my people. I love to travel and it’s my favorite thing to find a book written about the place I’m visiting or by someone from there. Or even better, to find a book that encapsulates the feeling of the place without ever mentioning it at all, like my time in Moab, UT, with Joan Didion. Spending my time in Moab reading her memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking” was almost the most magical thing I could have done. The MOST magical thing I could have done was what I did next, which was to share my time in Moab with Aldous Huxley as he experimented with drugs in “The Doors of Perception.” What a trip that was.


This isn’t your typical book review website. It’s about connecting to the feeling of the story. 

It’s about connecting to a place and a time. 

It’s about connection.


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