At Decatur Cemetery, this reader found the book an “engaging rollercoaster ride” because she related so much to the narrator’s nomadic life. She read part of it on a lovely porch swing overlooking the cemetery. I like to think the poignant cemetery moments of the book were read on that swing. Georgia is where I gave birth to my son and motherhood. Both are important in this book.
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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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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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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.
This reader on the #mediterranean loves, like many other readers, the pace and clip and love and life on these #pages.
#beachread #summer #greatbook #travel #lifewriting
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“The summer wind came blowing in from across the sea…”
Can you hear Frank Sinatra singing it as you look at this photo?
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“J’arrivais pas à laisser ce livre,” the message said. “I couldn’t leave this #book,” is the literal translation and I like it. But do we leave #books
? So I guess it would be “I couldn’t put this book down.” #home#love#bookreview#lifewriting#paris#reykjavik#barcelona#dubuque#chicago#madison#iowacity#iowa#travel#family#friendship#wisconsin this #story is filled with #beautiful#places and #people#kindnessmatters
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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.
“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
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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?
I am home. in #Chicago on Andrew’s terrace where he and the frog are reading near #water in the #light of June. The #book is filled with sensations of water and light and Chicago is in there, too. Thanks @andrewhayespr. Thanks, Chicago for all you gave me! To Andrew for his #kindness, another thing the #book is filled with 
#home#summer#summerreading#love and its cost, #grief. #joy and #beauty and #friendship and #family
“29 pages in and it’s so comfortable–the juxtaposition of life and home–so beautifully shared–are resonant and readers are grateful to be along for the ride.”
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