Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
 

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

by Alice Steinbach

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.” But somehow she had become dependent in quite 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.” But who was she away from the people and... (read more)

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Peggy F
  • Rated 4 stars

Alice takes a leave from her job at the Baltimore Sun to find out who she is and what she wants to do with her life. She travels to Paris, London, Oxford, and Italy meeting many interesting people, especially Naohiro. It is a travel journal that makes you want to visit where she has gone and want to know what happened between her and Naohiro.

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~katie.
  • Rated 1 stars

A nice light read-- the "revelations" are heavy-handed and far, far too predictable, but the atmosphere of Paris really comes through in the first part of the book-- I felt I could practically smell the Seine.

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