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Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear. Search review text. I ended up only skimming this book, though I loved the introduction and adore the concept. For me, Quindlen never quite found the right balance. She either went very in-depth on a few works albeit famous ones including quotes and, sometimes, plot turns many spoilers to be found here!

A few of the references to history, food and "the language barrier" for "American" speakers are nice, but, again, too brief. I guess that, having been to London myself if only briefly! I felt much more could be said for those of us desiring armchair travel to this amazing city Kathleen Flynn.

Author 1 book followers. Anna Quindlen is an entertaining writer whose words go down easily. I enjoyed thinking about novels and London vicariously with her in "Imagined London. Anyone can make a mistake, but this is why we have editors. And the edition I found on the street was not the first printing of this book, so I can only guess nobody noticed or cared. This makes me fear the editors were just, "Oh Anna Quindlen and books!

People will eat this thing up! Which can't help make me wonder what else might be wrong in this little book that is less glaringly obvious than the same novel described two different ways less than pages apart. The writer is clearly an Anglophile and a serious book nerd, like me, but there was something about this little book that did not work, even though I identified with her enthusiasm and joy at being in London for the first time.

I think what spoiled it for me was the generalizations about the British, which I found to be usually totally wrong, from my experience. For example, she complains about the fact that she stood for ages looking lost at some spot, and no one would come to her help in London, whereas she claims that in New York, people would jump up to help her.

My experience is the complete opposite, and sometime in the 80s, I had a Lord in a top hat and Savile Row three-piece suit stop their limo next to me in London to help me out when I was browsing my map. In New York, which she claims is warm but I felt was cold and business-like through and through, no one would look at my direction. Whenever I visited England I found the English to be very warm and friendly, nothing like the stereotypes about them.

And this is part of the reason that I cannot enjoy reading such stereotypes in travel books. Some are and some aren't, in every people on this earth. There may have been a few other problems with this book, but this is what bothered me the most. Lovely book. I felt as though Quindlen was writing about my childhood experiences of my own imagined London.

Corinne Edwards. Imagined London isn't really a travel book. It's more of a place book. An homage. Anna's love of London - its' characters both real and imagined, its' spaces both past and present - is an essential and relevant part of this book. She doesn't pretend to be anything but a huge fan of this amazing city and the works of literature it has both inspired and produced.

If you are a lover of British literature, many names and book titles will thrill you with their familiarity as Quindlen gives us a tour around London. Of course there is Dickens and Shakespeare, but we meet Heyer and Waugh, Austen and Doyle as we make our literary way. It's not the sort of book you'd necessarily take with you on a journey - but one you'd want to read beforehand, to get your feet wet a bit and know how to best use your time if seeing bookish sites is one of your top priorities.

But more than all that, Quindlen is also thinking about herself as a reader and as an American who loves everything British and about the way we imagine things in our head versus the way they are in real life.

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