All the Way to the Tigers
A Memoir

All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris Absolutely one of the most enjoyable books I have read this year (2020)! My mind was sent off in many directions. . . pulling up maps of India, adding Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice to my reading list, googling tigers of all stripes. And acquainting myself with......more

I wanted to like this book but the author whines on about everything so much (the weather, her mother, her broken ankle). She is such a high minded intellectual that she can't see that she is just like her mother. She reminds of a moody teenager who thinks she is better than those around her because......more

I’ve recommended Mary Morris’s Nothing To Declare: Memoirs of A Woman Traveling Alone over the years, was very happy to read that her latest book, All The Way To The Tigers, was another travelogue/family history/personal growth saga. Thanks to Doubleday Books/Nan Talese and NetGalley, I received an......more

This book read like one long complaint. Hoping it’s not too hypocritical to say the negativity turned me off. The author came off as whiny privileged and ungrateful.......more

In the tradition of Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert, Mary Morris turns a personal catastrophe into a memoir full of personal growth and travel. In 2008 literally before her long awaited sabbatical Mary Morris shatters her leg so badly the doctor admitted later that he......more