good book – Page 2 – Marianne Maili

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023

I am home. in Santiago de Compostela, on the Camino.

Un camino is a way and camino is also the first person present for walking in the Spanish language. So to say Camino. is to say I walk. El camino is to say the way.

Camino el camino. is to say I walk the way. What way? There are many.

Following Robert Frost’s adage about how way leads to way is a way to live. The narrator of I am home. lives like this.

I love seeing the book resting with other pilgrims in Santiago de Compostela after a lot of walking. This reader thinks “It’s a great book to accompany a pilgrimage and walking journey because it is a book about the many ways that lead us home. And the camino that leads us there is love.”

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July 16, 2023July 16, 2023

I am home. on Praia de Gures.

Reading is sexy. Just do it. In places like this. it’s lovely to watch someone read. “El problema es cuando cojo tu libro, no puedo dejarlo,” this reader told me. In other words, “The problem is that when I pick up your book, I can’t put it down.”

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July 15, 2023July 16, 2023

Home is with you wherever you go.

It’s a story that moves about a person who moves.

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June 29, 2023December 6, 2023

I am home. in Potsdam.

Would you like it on a lake? Would you like it on a break? Would you like it walking down the road?

I like knowing the book has traveled to a region where my ancestors lived. This reader writes from Germany:

“I am sitting with your book now, on a patio by the lake outside Potsdam…I really enjoy the details of place you included, all of the sensory information and vivid visuals give me such a clear image of your experience of these locations that are so meaningful to you. It’s very generous to share such pieces of your heart. This is one of my favorite things about writing, traveling, even staying still. Getting to know a place intimately and trying to translate what I feel into something another can understand, at least in part. The honesty of your perspective on relationships also speaks to me. I deeply related to the experience of Iowa dinner parties becoming uncomfortable after speaking directly about taboo subjects. The book really is a delight.”

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June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

I am home. in New York City.

I am home. in Washington Square Park. Amy “Absolutely loved it! It’s a memoir that feels like how memory works. A series of moments distilled to their poetic essence, full of beauty and grace. What’s not written heightens the poignancy of what is.”

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June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

I am home. in Dubuque.

Who can ask for anything more?

One of myriad ways this book can be seen is as a love letter to my family, friends and hometown, and to Northeastern Iowa.

Yet also to France, Iceland, Spain, England, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, and California.

And many more. I love this planet.

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June 27, 2023June 28, 2023

I am home. on Passeig de Sant Joan.

I am home. in a #green mood in #Barcelona. I #love hearing from #readers.

Things like “I’ve been loving every sentence. Reading it slowly to make it last.” and “I’m absolutely #loving it! #Powerful #writing.”

This makes me feel so good after all the sentence crafting. Sometimes it feels like surgery or that game we played as kids called Operation – feels like that when I try to move #words and #sentences around without #touching others.

#goodreads #summer

“It’s a #real #journey for the #reader“, I liked reading that message, too.

Please send #thoughts, #images, #favorite #pages and many thanks to those who have it means a lot to know what what I’ve done does for others

welcomewonder@mariannemaili.com

#lifewriting #story #home

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June 27, 2023June 28, 2023

I am home. on Paseo de Gracia.

I am home. on a lovely terrace in #Barcelona (an important place in this book) with Marina who wrote to me in French and English about it:

“Ohhh, comme j’aime ton livre!

Le rythme…le flow…les jolis souvenirs…raconté légèrement…la poésie…tu es excellente ma chère!!!

Je te retrouve dans ces pages, ton livre te ressemble … I’m enjoying lots reading your book…and as I want to continue reading when a word is …unknown…I put in my imagination and continue…no time to check the dictionary,

I also love its cut, the way it is not continuous …one or two pages of story at a time, easy to move in and out of” #goodbook #summerreading #love #home #beauty #travel #joy

I love Marina’s #sandals and how well they fit with the #bookcover, n’est-ce pas?

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June 27, 2023June 28, 2023

I am home. in Jamaica.

“Look what book traveled to Ochos Rios with me! It is so interesting to read about such an adventurous life. Marianne is an inspiration from modeling to writing to translating to teaching. She has seen and learned so much. There’s nothing she can’t do! I finished the book and loved every minute while I was reading it. It’s beautifully written. I cried and I laughed. I love page 136. I’m asking my book club to read this!”

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