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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman (edició 2002)

de Alice Steinbach (Autor)

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Paris Dear Alice, Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding staircase, I can hear it clearly. It reminds me of the bell that calls to worship the novice embarking on a new life. In a way I too am a novice, leaving, temporarily, one life for another. Love, Alice In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own. "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Alice Steinbach, a single working mother, in this captivating book. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides." Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way: "I had fallen into the habit . . . of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me--my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question in some of the most exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself to preserve her spontaneous impressions, this revealing and witty book will transport readers instantly into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.… (més)
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Títol:Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Autors:Alice Steinbach (Autor)
Informació:Random House Trade Paperbacks (2002), Edition: Reprint, 295 pages
Col·leccions:La teva biblioteca, Llegint actualment, Return
Valoració:****
Etiquetes:memoir, travel

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3.5 interesting. What happened next? ( )
  cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |
I'm having a hard time deciding how I feel about this book - falling somewhere between neutral and wishing it was a tiny bit different.

I think it works much better as a memoir as it does a travelogue since, while she does travel a lot, there really isn't anything here to say what was so great about certain places once she leaves Paris about a third of the way in. The entirety of the Paris section felt electric, there was reasoning behind her visit, who she wanted to pay tribute to, the way she wanted to absorb the city. Everywhere else feels like an afterthought with the occasional exception revisiting her London home and the scene in Rome on top of the Spanish Steps and more focused on the people she either met or ended up traveling with, and even then the people towards the end become lackluster and dull, despite being, I'm sure, great people.

The Naohiro saga is probably the shining star of this book, and really I'd read an entire novel dedicated to just their independent, long distance romance. I've seen that the sequel to this one has more information on it, but it's another travelogue/memoir that I don't want to dedicate any headspace to cherry-picking the interesting parts out of. ( )
  zozopuff | Dec 19, 2022 |
Without Reservations – Alice Steinbach
3 stars
In 1993, Alice Steinbach took a leave of absence from her job as a journalist to spend a year traveling through Europe. She planned extended stays in some of the world’s most beautiful places as she searched for a way to define herself away from the context of job and family. This was a pleasant, easy to read memoir about interesting people and exquisite locations. I liked that Steinbach traveled alone with no sense of loneliness or lack of confidence. She was open to new relationships, but was just as happy on her own. I found myself in agreement with her self-reflections on being single, over fifty and independent.
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  msjudy | May 30, 2016 |
I loved this book! Will read it again and again. Alice makes me want to pack my bag, not for a trip but for an adventure.

Thank you Alice for your wonderful writing. I have given copies to my adventure seeking friends. ( )
  ava-st-claire | Feb 21, 2014 |
A couple of months ago I saw a review of this book over at Captive Reader (http://thecaptivereader.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/without-reservations-alice-steinbach/)and immediately requested the book from my local library. A few weeks ago it arrived and about a week ago I started the book.

Alice Steinbach, an American reporter, divorced with two adult sons makes the decision to take a sabbatical from her job and travel. Her travelling is confined within this book to Paris, London, Oxford and Italy.

Whilst this is not so much a travelogue, it is written in a gentle style and is very much conversational. Alice has a wonderful ability to make friends with strangers and very much embraces the opportunity she has taken to reaffirm her position and life.

Whilst in London, Alice visited the Gertrude Jekyll exhibition that was held in London at the Museum of Garden History. By coincidence I visited the same exhibition, as Gertrude Jekyll is responsible for the gardens at one of my ancestral houses in rural Surrey.

I simply loved this book. I liked the way that Alice was having a conversation with her readers. I loved that she sent herself postcards whilst she was solo travelling and maintained a journal through the experience.

It reminded me of the solo travelling I did in my early 20s and the people that I met along the way and spent time with. Several of those people I am still in touch with, others have fallen by the wayside and yet remain entwined with my travels. It was those travels that probably defined and shaped me in adulthood.

About a third of the way through the book I found that I need a note pad as a few thoughts and book titles came to mind. I found that I wanted to know more about her travels and did she keep in touch with anyone she met on her journey, and what happened to her relationship with Naohiro?

As I sat to write this review I decided to see what other books Alice had written, I was very sad to see that Alice passed away in March 2012 (http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/316124/) and I felt a real sadness for someone I had never met or corresponded with, yet we had made a connection through her writing. ( )
  AnglersRest | May 3, 2013 |
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Dear Alice,

Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding staircase, I can hear it clearly. It reminds me of the bell that calls to worship the novice embarking on a new life. In a way I too am a novice, leaving, temporarily, one life for another.

Love, Alice
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For weeks I had imagined my first day in Paris: I could see myself sipping on a citron pressé at the Flore, a famous Saint-Germain café that was once the haunt of Picasso, Satre, de Beauvoir, and Camus, then darting in and out of the shops on the rue du Bac or rosing the bookstores in the historic rue Jacob.
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Paris Dear Alice, Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding staircase, I can hear it clearly. It reminds me of the bell that calls to worship the novice embarking on a new life. In a way I too am a novice, leaving, temporarily, one life for another. Love, Alice In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own. "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Alice Steinbach, a single working mother, in this captivating book. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides." Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way: "I had fallen into the habit . . . of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me--my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question in some of the most exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself to preserve her spontaneous impressions, this revealing and witty book will transport readers instantly into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.

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