Book will appeal to anyone with a sense of adventure. (Review by Janet Whelan)
Annette Jahnel has self-published My Year of Beds.
After the tragic death of her best friend in a fatal river rafting accident, Annette Jahnel realized that life is only ‘now’- there is no tomorrow - and she needed to look at things from a different perspective. Indecision being the silent death of dreams, she started making arrangements to embark on an ambitious road trip. My Year of Beds describes her travels from Germany to China in a glorified delivery van she calls “The Wish Mobile”.
In the first book of a two-book series she travels through Europe, travels on a yellow tunnel train to explore the longest cave in the world in Slovenia, swims the crystal water of Croatia and nearly drives off the top of Mount Olympus in Greece. She then drives through Turkey, Romania. Moldova, the Ukraine, across the vast steppes of southern Russia and into Kazakhstan and, finally, China.
The book is an interesting account of one woman’s year-long solo journey into the unknown. To travel alone is not just to learn to know the world, but to learn to know one’s self. The book is written in the narrative form and is somewhat stilted rather than a free-flowing story, giving far too much attention to unnecessary detail. A map would have helped the reader follow the author’s progress and some serious editing would have made the reading experience more enjoyable.
However, the book will appeal to anyone with a sense of adventure.
My Year of Beds is published by AJ Publishers ISBN 978-1-4466-8920-2 More information at www.ajahnel.com - Janet Whelan
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