Oh this is a beautiful read, Shari. I also love the confined order of a hotel room. It feels so safe - like "playing house" before you grow up and get weighed down by the freedom that comes with too much space.
My favorite image in your delightful essay is where you place all your belongings on your bed, imagining it to be a train. Your space is sacred space. And so is mine. Which is why I've become better about keeping it tidy of late.
Sounds like you didn't care much for Intermezzo. But I loved it. So did Barack Obama, who put it on his 10 best list last year. And I felt smug that I'd read it before he did that. Now I must read 'By Any Other Name.' Thanks for that. I enjoyed Picoult's 'A Small Great Thing' some years ago so expecting good things. And to think, she actually wrote back to you. Well done!
High praise coming from you, Andrew Jazprose Hill - thank you!!! But no, I loved Intermezzo - need to reconfigure that sentence to make it clear methinks. Especially if Obama rated it too - good reason to feel smug :)
Oh this is a beautiful read, Shari. I also love the confined order of a hotel room. It feels so safe - like "playing house" before you grow up and get weighed down by the freedom that comes with too much space.
My favorite image in your delightful essay is where you place all your belongings on your bed, imagining it to be a train. Your space is sacred space. And so is mine. Which is why I've become better about keeping it tidy of late.
Sounds like you didn't care much for Intermezzo. But I loved it. So did Barack Obama, who put it on his 10 best list last year. And I felt smug that I'd read it before he did that. Now I must read 'By Any Other Name.' Thanks for that. I enjoyed Picoult's 'A Small Great Thing' some years ago so expecting good things. And to think, she actually wrote back to you. Well done!
High praise coming from you, Andrew Jazprose Hill - thank you!!! But no, I loved Intermezzo - need to reconfigure that sentence to make it clear methinks. Especially if Obama rated it too - good reason to feel smug :)
Thank you for including me in this lovely essay, Sharon!
My pleasure, Kate. Your substack inspires!