In another, more glamorous life, I am also a travel writer, and through those other travel-based experiences, I had the chance to follow Anna Kloots, a Paris-based American writer whose feed is always a oasis of creative light.
I didn´t know what to expect from her memoir, My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act, but by the end of listening to it - in the emotional voice of the authbor herself - I was deeply moved - to tears sometimes - but her difficult journey.
There is no easy way and no matter how glittering someone´s life may look life on the feed, there is also so much left behind the lenses´ focus. In Kloots´ case, she looked as having everything: a life on the road, a successful husband - a professional magician, no less, to whom she was the assistant. But she, as a woman human being, she was nowhere in sight. Her dreams, and wishes and romance where not there.
With a broken heart, trying to find herself in the shreds of the end of her relationship, she moved to Paris, the city of her dreams. And found her voice, the voice expressing her real feelings and wishes, her career as a writer and woman in charge of her destiny.
I´ve learned so much from My Own Magic...About relationships and how important is to keep into consideration the feelings of other person and respect their own expectations, about how two people who ended up their love story can keep respecting each other no matter what. About perseverence and not giving up oneself. Also, a little bit about travel writing and the business of it.
Her voice convenes so many emotions and echoes deep into her story. It gives authenticity and a touch of magic to the reading. This is definitely a book that one needs when in doubt about following the right personal and professional pathway. It may give you some strength and inspiration.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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