A Book Review Of: Getting Rooted in New Zealand
Getting Rooted in New Zealand By: Jamie Baywood 224 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Publication Date: April 2013 Genre: Travel Memoir Get it here: Amazon B&N * I received a copy from the author in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Craving change and lacking logic, at 26, Jamie, a cute and quirky Californian, impulsively moves to New Zealand to avoid dating after reading that the country's population has 100,000 fewer men. In her journal, she captures a hysterically honest look at herself, her past and her new wonderfully weird world filled with curious characters and slapstick situations in unbelievably bizarre jobs. It takes a zany jaunt to the end of the Earth and a serendipitous meeting with a fellow traveler before Jamie learns what it really means to get rooted. My Thoughts: I found the author to have an interesting, quirky voice. The story was amusing and I liked how she described all the "different" people she met.She ...