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ParisDear 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,AliceIn 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.

At this time of writing, The Ebook Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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I cannot, for the life of me, understand how this book has an average of 4.3 stars. The author is so painfully unlikable. As other reviews have pointed out, she shows no vulnerability whatsoever, comes across as completely self-involved, and writes herself cutesy postcards with her pseudo-intellectual musings. However, what really irked me were her descriptions of the female "friends" she met along the way -- she was disrespectful and judgmental, and she showed no appreciation for their kindness when she was desperate for companionship. When the author shows up to a party under-dressed, she immediately attacks her appropriately-attired friend as looking like "Geena Davis...if she put on twenty pounds." In another particularly egregious encounter, she lacks the social graces to realize that her crashing a date between a woman named Liliane and her boyfriend has caused tension between the couple, and she proceeds to proclaim Liliane a "needy, dependent person" for her efforts to smooth over the awkwardness. How this woman made it into middle-age without a scrap of humility or empathy, I don't know, but save yourself the time and don't buy this book.

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