I wrote yesterday about how external elements (temperature, mood, health) can affect the way we perceive a city when we’re traveling.<\/p>\n
While waiting for our plane to board in Montreal, I picked up a copy of Saving Rome<\/a>, by Megan Williams, a Canadian born writer and journalist who lives in Rome. I hadn’t heard of her or her book but I got curious and I bought it anyway. I am very, very glad I did. It’s one of the best collection of short stories I’ve read in a long time, with great insight and characters – a lot of them expats living in Rome. I was touched, surprised, I laughed out loud and I couldn’t help but read numerous passages to Blork who has now started to read the book.<\/p>\n I’m not a very « romantic » person and I don’t like to idealize the places I visit, even when I’m a tourist. « Saving Rome » gave me a good sense of what it would be like to drop everything and move to Rome tomorrow morning: not easy! But even with its realistic views, the stories managed to show admiration and attachement for a city full of charm and contradictions. No need to know Italy or plan on travelling there to appreciate this book. I hope it gets the recognition (and sales) it deserves!<\/p>\n And it really made me want to write, which is always a sign of my enthusiasm for a book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote yesterday about how external elements (temperature, mood, health) can affect the way we perceive a city when we’re traveling. While waiting for our plane to board in Montreal, I picked up a copy of Saving Rome, by Megan Williams, a Canadian born writer and journalist who lives in Rome. I hadn’t heard of… Continue reading Saving Rome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}