Half way across America
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15 Apr 2010Well, just when I thought I couldn’t stand another plane ride (why is it that every plane I take gets delayed) I hit Dallas and the Dallas Art Museum for the greatest gig in ages. Fabulous hall, big and intimate at the same time, an audience who were so up for talking history ( because of course the past is also the present – just consider how much religion is once again global politics. I truly believe that if you want to understand how people feel and think when their lives are foreign to us, then the past is the place to go to find out.
Anyway – just to say thank you to Dallas, for the vital engagement of the audience, and the great experience of so many younger faces enthralled by history, AND my tour of the art next morning before the gallery opened. If it hadn’t been for the next plane delay ( three hours this time) to Boulder I would have been in heaven.
Boulder is high enough to be half way to heaven however. I hope Boulder book shop has found some people also interested in talking history. More while waiting for the next lane to Portland. Now Portland is a city I have been wanted to visit for a very long time time. Firday (16t) night at Powells. Now that is ambition fulfilled.
take care all of you and keep writing and reading.
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4 Responses to Half way across America
Mike Wilson
April 19th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Just finished Sacred Hearts and wish to congratulate you on a brilliant story. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and will be looking forward to reading your other tales. Best wishes for the future. Mike and Diane
Sarah Dunant
April 20th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Thank you! Currently in Nashville wondering if that cloud above the city is really volcanic ash. if this were the 16th century they would think it was God”s way of saving the planet.Come to think of it, that is not such a bad reading given how few planes are up there.
julia benard
May 16th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
I’ve just finished Sacred hearts and really loved it, the story, the pace, the characters. I found the detail about convent life and especially the herbalism very interesting. I was hoping, though, that Zuana would escape and work in that woman’s apothecary!
Noora Montonen
June 27th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Dear Ms. Dunant,
I have just finished reading Sacred Hearts, and I must say the book was a truly delightful novel. I enjoyed the style of writing; it is quite rare that I come by books that have been writted in the present tense, and for some time after I closed the book I found my own inner monologue going on in the present instead of the normal past tense. I found that some chapters had a particularly interesting narrative monologue with events being first recounted from the point of view of Zuana and then from the point of view of Serafina, and the transition between the two was skillfully conducted. Thank you once again for writing such a beautiful novel!