Want to Kick Your Vacation Reading Up a Notch?

Envision a vacation reading books that let you escape from wherever you are...and take you where you want to be.

Beyond Beaches shows you books to read and places to go that may tempt you beyond ordinary vacations. 

As any Literary Cat can tell you...

Once you open a book's cover, the story inside whisks you away quicker than an airplane takes flight.

Happens to us wherever we read, on vacation or not. 

Knock the Socks Off Ordinary Vacations

How does reading books help you improve a vacation experience?

You can't help but learn a bit of history, culture, and character of the places you read about in books, whether fact or fiction.

So read about the places you plan to visit. Fill your imagination and curiosity with details about the area, events, and local customs. Then, on your vacation, explore.

Search for shops, cafes, streets, museums...details you've read in novels or history books.  Are they there? Are they real? Can you find them?

Such exploration often helps you begin to knock the socks off an ordinary vacation.

Unless, of course, you're on a vacation beach, with a stack of good books. 

Spill the Beach Vacation Beans

Fortune places Literary Cats on Alabama beaches, smack dab in the middle of our Gulf Coast beach paradise...half way between Hemmingway's Key West and Harry's South Padre mysteries. 

Gulf Shores Beachfront

Gosh!  With beaches this beautiful, where else would a Literary Cat read?

Poke Your Nose into Literary Settings


Court Room in To Kill A Mockingbird

Let the Cat Out of the Literary Bag

Eudora Welty's Gardens

Cherry-pick Books Perfect for You (and Your Vacation Reading)


Boldly Go Where You've Only Read Before