Title: A lot of reservation.....
Review: Well, I think taking that writing course in Prague affected Madame Steinbach's ability to tell an engaging story! This book was SOOO boring! I cracked up laughing reading another reviewer's comment that the "shepherding" chapter was more boring than the garden one because I had the same impression. I didn't even finish the last chapter. Maybe I should have, it could have helped my insomnia. Frankly, the relationship with Naruhiro makes my skin crawl. The way she writes about this man is not appealing at all.And if she asked one more person in a non-Anglo-Saxon country if they were inspired by an American or English artist, writer, gardener, etc., I thought I would scream. How horribly insulting to other cultures. But that is so American - everything in the world must revolve around them these days. And I know, I am one but thankfully don't live there anymore.
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