IMAGINATION IS THE SPARK that ignites a writer, and imagination incubates in the joys and sorrows of life. Imagination is loved by readers, who are taken to new locations, fresh relationships, and exciting discoveries.
My recent imagination-escape was an enjoyable reading of A Gentleman in Moscow, which begins when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is unceremoniously sentenced to life imprisonment in Moscow’s Metropol hotel. His prison is a rich environment for his imagination and I was drawn as much to the workings of the hotel as the interactions between the Count and his many visitors.