Doreen Orion

"The whole thing was Tim's fault. When he announced he wanted to travel around the country in a converted bus for a year, I gave this profound and potentially life-altering notion all the thoughtful
consideration it deserved".

Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion

Just jump in the car (or bus) and go!

What a fun read! I am a travel buff and this work of non fiction, the true story of a couple who just gets in their bus and GOES was exhilarating. It was a delightful book.

I must admit I have always had the dream of doing something like this myself. I was born with Wanderlust and that has never left me and I LOVED seeing the writer just jump right in! And yeah there are some issues but her way of writing makes even those issues sound like an adventure! At times this book is LOL funny.

I really want to see every state in my lifetime but I am not there yet. This book will no doubt appeal to travel buffs, it would have to. I enjoyed it greatly and my hat's off to the two of them and their happy travels!… (meer)

The cover is beautiful for its theme. The title is great. They match the conventions of a psychological thriller, and I greatly enjoy reading those. This book is a combination of a memoir, a civil procedure law textbook, a criminal law textbook, and a book that helps a person who's being stalked. All of those are a lot for a paperback to handle. Dr Orion's book fails at it. It's a strange combination, anyway.

But when this book first came out in 1997, I firmly believe it helped many, many people. This book is a time capsule and I'm so glad a variety of societies have progressed since then, with such better technological access, information and social views. This book is at the same time hopelessly outdated and Dr Orion's memoir reads like she's pleading for the audience to believe her, when she's not delivering walls o' text. Sometimes it's checklists. Sometimes it's state laws, word for word, as they were when the book was written more than twenty years ago. I believe Dr Orion, and also find the way parts of the book were put together to be annoying. Totally separate from everything else in the book: Dr Orion seemed condescending of her patients despite repeatedly claiming to be in love with her work. Did--did she only want people whose lives were drastically improved solely with one medication and the dosage instantly correct or something? Because she really seems, in some places, to only have patients with "easy" illnesses and treatment plans. Schizophrenia and related diseases do not tend to be easy to treat at first. While her ordeal must have been awful, I'm not blaming her for it. That is not the issue I'm trying to address when I mean--oh, whatever.

Another Goodreads review suggests watching a 2002 French film that is available on Amazon with terrific English subtitles: I watched "He Loves Me, He Loves me Not" a few weeks before reading this book. It's a great start for learning about erotomania, as the reviewer points out. It's not scary at all, I note, so don't expect a psychological thriller. Don't expect one from this book, either.… (meer)