![]() ![]() The company explains that its list “ highlights works that look to the past, present and future to deepen our engagement with the world as we know it today. Morgan Reading List selected ALONE TIME as one of 10 titles. But she also explored New York, her hometown, as if she were a tourist: “Savoring the moment, examining things closely, reminiscing - these practices are not strictly for use on the road. “I liked to be alone in Constantinople,” Greta Garbo said. ![]() In Florence, she communed at the Uffizi with the most ogled woman in the world, Botticelli’s Venus. In Istanbul, she lolled in the steamy Cemberlitas hamam. In Paris, she picnicked amid the promenades of the Luxembourg Gardens, feasted on oysters at the Closerie des Lilas and ambled through Balzac’s home, Hampl-style. In so doing, she not only dispels the stigma attaching to solo travel, she debunks the myth of the “supposed horror of solo dining.” Learning that increasing numbers of Americans were taking vacations-for-one, she decided to test-drive the trend in some of the world’s most sociable cities. Stephanie Rosenbloom, a travel columnist for The New York Times, set out on her own for a more practical purpose. The New York Times Book Review included ALONE TIME in its Summer Reading List. Credit: ANGIE WANGvia The New York Times Book Review: 73 Books to Read While the Sun Is Out and the Days Are Long ![]()
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