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Lädt ... Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida (2010)von Catherine Ryan Howard
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"A unique book by a brilliantly witty, instantly loveable author... I couldn't put it down." --Trashionista.com, Top 10 Reads of 2010 Three big dreams, two Mouse Ears and one J-1 visa. What could possibly go wrong in the happiest place on earth? When Catherine Ryan Howard decides to swap the grey clouds of Ireland for the clear skies of the Sunshine State, she thinks all of her dreams - working in Walt Disney World, living in the United States, seeing a Space Shuttle launch - are about to come true. Ahead of her she sees weekends at the beach, mornings by the pool and an inexplicably skinnier version of herself skipping around Magic Kingdom. But not long into her first day on Disney soil - and not long after a breakfast of Mickey-shaped pancakes - Catherine's bubble bursts and soon it seems that among Orlando's baked highways, monotonous mall clusters and world famous theme parks, pixie dust is hard to find and hair is downright impossible to straighten. The only memoir about Space Shuttle launches, the town that Disney built, religious theme parks, Bruce Willis, humidity-challenged hair, the Ebola virus and - oh, yeah - working in Walt Disney World, MOUSETRAPPED: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida is the hilarious story of what happened when one Irish girl went searching for happiness in the happiest place on earth. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1: An Irish Girl in a Disney World The Call of the Mouse | Arrival | Mousetrapped | Apartment Living | Orientation | Stop This Train | Into the Kingdom | Not So Happy Holidays PART 2: Good Morning, America! Miles in America | Mission Space | The Town That Disney Built | Adventures in Humidity | Coffee Has Two 'f's | Go for Launch | In God We Trust | Farewell Find out more on MousetrappedBook.com. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing-AutorCatherine Ryan Howard ist ein LibraryThing-Autor, ein Autor, der seine persönliche Bibliothek in LibraryThing auflistet. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder 
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Selfpublished in Paperback and Kindle
Paperback, 232 pages
This is not a book about Disney in any way, although you do learn a bit about it. It is a travel book written by a young European girl going to Orlando, Florida.
At the age of 24, Catherine from Cork, Ireland takes a job with a hotel just outside Disney World in Orlando. She is a life long Disney fan, and is extremely excited to be going to this "land of pixie dust". However, reality is very different. As a European girl, she is used to be able to survive without a car - but this is not the case here. So until she get's her car, she is miserable, but then things change and she starts to explore her new world.
Catherine is a space flight fan and uses quite a few pages about the space program and how fantastic it was to be able to send someone to the moon. She is also very interested in Celebration - the Disney-built town close to Disney World. Having not read anything about it for some years, she is very interested in seeing how it is going. Was it all the inhabitants had hoped for?
Catherine writes in a very light and engaging fashion that makes you green with envy (not Irish green). The book is a light read and can be easily read as a secondary book - for when you need a lighter read than your main book. It is easily picked up again after a week or two's pause.
One thing that might disturb some of a more religious mindset is that Catherine calls herself an atheist. To me, she is nothing more than a young person living in a community where religion was a normal part of life - and she has had too much (so far). You see the same with children/grandchildren of ministers/preachers/priests.
She comments her about religion (here Christianity as that is what she comes into contact with) are, for me, just as an outside observer - wondering and questioning. She is not malicious in any way in my book.
So, if you want to go on a trip of the Orlando-area of Florida - take a trip with Catherine to see: Disney World, Universal Studio Theme Park, Kennedy Space Center, The Holy Land Experience (a religious theme park), Sea World, Gatorland and Celebration.
Have a nice trip!
Extra material (cut chapter and photos) can be found on the book’s website.
The author has a new book coming out soon about her backpack adventure across Central America - right after her Florida adventure. She has also published an apparently good book about selfpublishing. (