Book and Product Reviews

Straight From the Source: See what our Go Girls have to say about the works of other travel writers and entrepreneurs! From tourist maps and new gadgets to travel blogs and trashy beach reads, we're exploring the best (and, who knows, maybe some of the worst) globe-trotting creations in all their genius and insanity. Check in regularly to keep up with Go Girl's most recent reviews!

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Ooh la la! Puff Pastry at Brunch? Yes, please!

Who doesn’t love brunch? Raise your hand so I know to avoid you. Brunch culture is inviting, endearing, and tasty. Combine the richness and laziness of a late-morning brunch with the buttery goodness of puff pastry and you have former Go Girl Katherine Martinelli’s e-cookbook, Puff Pastry at Brunch: 10 Sweet and Savory Recipes to Start [...]

Travel in Peace: Review of Dovetail Travel Bands for Women

I’m not a knapsack or fanny pack type of traveler. I have traveled with a loose passport more often than I should. On my recent trip to New Orleans, though, I tested out the Dovetail Travel in Peace Travel Band and Travel Wing. While I didn’t need my passport, I did feel surprisingly more secure [...]

California Dreaming: 5 Books for California

Looking for a great read to accompany your trip to California? Read what Margaret has to say about her five top picks. Click on the title links to purchase a copy from Amazon and support Go Girl! Know another Cali book that you can’t get enough of? Add your tips to the list! . . [...]

5 Books for Road Trips

On the Road by Jack Kerouac Probably the most famous road trip book ever written, Kerouac’s fictionalization of his cross-country wanderings is known as the book of the Beat Generation, immortalizing the counterculture of drugs, jazz and emerging masculinity exemplified by writers like William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac himself. Retrace any of the [...]

5 Books for London

        5 books for London Orlando by Virginia Woolf One of her lesser known but most beautiful and accessible novels, Orlando: A Biography–written for Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West–is the fantastical biography of a young noble(wo)man named Orlando who is born during the reign of Elizabeth I, and decides never to grow old. As the history [...]

Looking for an Extreme Read?

[pullquote] Why are we so fixated with such tales, gory and clichéd as they may be? The very gruesomeness of the material is an undeniable source of fascination. Yet our national obsession with extreme survival tales stems not only from their content but the fact that they are true…As opposed to works of fiction, true-life [...]

Understanding Syria

Bruce Reidel over at The Daily Beast has the best article I’ve read yet on the growing conflict within Syria and its potential consequences for the country, the region and the world at large. If you want a succinct but detailed history of the religious differences within Syria over the past half-century or so, and [...]

Review: The Lost Girls

Review on the Go: Though anyone over the age of 40 may need to read while accompanied by a copy of the Urban Dictionary, this book, chronicling a year of travel centered around three mid-20s women and their many adventures, is a great travel read for the beach, the salsa club, the hostel and anywhere else you can find a cute guy.

Product Review: My Vacation HD

I have never been a first generation adapter of anything. My iPod is five years old, I don’t have a smart phone, and I only joined Facebook in July. The iPad was the exception to this rule. Light and easily transportable, it was the perfect piece of technology for someone moving to a foreign country and not wanting a lot of baggage.

Review: Slow Love

Review-on-the-Go: Slow Love by Dominique Browning is a tale of a magazine editor who breaks down in the recent economic crisis and slowly builds herself up again. Don’t be deceived by the hard cover and pretty text: this is a better beach read than anything else.