The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Buy More Books!
By Joshua | December 16th, 2008 | 
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I’m all for Reverend Billy’s Church of Stop Shopping and the idea of the Buy-Nothing Christmas, but if you DO feel compelled to purchase some gifts, I thought I’d share this message from Roy Blount Jr., President of the Authors Guild:
“I’ve been talking to booksellers lately who report that times are hard. And local booksellers aren’t known for vast reserves of capital, so a serious dip in sales can be devastating … We don’t want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let’s mount a book-buying splurge … Clear out the mysteries, wrap up the histories, beam up the science fiction! Round up the westerns, go crazy for self-help….
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they’re easy to wrap: buy those books now … Hold off on the flat-screen TV and the GPS (they’ll be cheaper after Christmas) and buy many, many books.
Then tell the grateful booksellers, who by this time will be hanging onto your legs begging you to stay and live with their cat in the stockroom: ‘Got to move on, folks. Got some books to write now. You see … we’re the Authors Guild.’”
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I did just that — as did my husband. All we bought for each were books. All our other friends got a gift in their honor to the Boulder Community Foundation (if they were local) and to Doctors Without Borders (if they weren’t).