A review by annagracek
The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl

4.0

How fitting to finish this book today, my last full day alone in Florence, sitting at the cafe table outside my hotel on the busy street of bicycles, cars, locals, tourists, delivery men, children asleep in strollers. How lucky I feel to have had Patricia Hampl’s warm, measured voice as the soundtrack to sleepless nights and wondrous days. I have walked bravely and fearfully into a new season of feeding the roots of my creativity and this book was a benediction, a blessing for these useful hours. Wasted but not in the pedestrian sense. Wasted only in the way that sleep is, that joy is, or love.