03985cam a2200721 4500 545374878 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698407497 0698407490 B07466JGSG Amazon b91022e5-1e52-43b4-98aa-b50be68a295b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3368749 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hampl, Patricia. The Art of the Wasted Day [Libby]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. Biography. travel memoir. Relaxation. autobiographies. happiness. Healing. Autobiography. Memoirs. Creativity. gratitude. self help. biographies. new age. self help books. intuition. Leisure. Spirituality. narrative nonfiction. memoir. motivation. imagination. wanderlust. biographies and memoirs. motivational books. spiritual books. business books. daydreaming. books on creativity. inspirational books for women. self help books for women. self improvement books. biographies of famous people. autobiography books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3638kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3642kB. Biography & Autobiography. New Age. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"<br /> <br /> A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream</b><br /> <br /> <i>The Art of the Wasted Day</i> is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne—the hero of this book—who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay.<br /> <br /> Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love—and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life.<br /> <br /> The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. <i>The Art of the Wasted Day</i> is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b91022e5-1e52-43b4-98aa-b50be68a295b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b91022e5-1e52-43b4-98aa-b50be68a295b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b91022e5-1e52-43b4-98aa-b50be68a295b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)