Do Not Go Gentle. Go To Paris
Travels of an Uncertain Woman of a Certain Age

Gail Schilling has written a gem that will warm your heart, make you laugh, and keep you wanting more of her adventures to read. An intrepid solo traveler, Gail ventures out of her comfort zone and travels to France where she embraces strangers who become friends, manages to communicate without bein......more

Gail Thorell Schilling manages to tuck a lifetime of dreams, hopes, humor and heartbreak into this small, but surprising suitcase of a memoir. Within the tidy space of an account of her monthlong visit to France, Schilling transforms each precious day of that trip into a journey of self discovery an......more

I enjoyed this, perhaps more than some would,just because I love Paris (and France in general), and am of “a certain age” myself. A very pleasant read for me. And I will try to remember that “True beauty, it seems, is less about how we see our appearance and more about how we feel about it.”......more

With the pandemic, the only travel to Paris has to be mental travel and dreams and this was the perfect book to read to kick-start plans to travel to Paris on a solo trip. This has long been one of my dreams but I felt like I was too old to take a trip like this -- Gail has convinced me that age sho......more

It could have been so much better. Even though she is visiting France for the first time, she says she doesn’t want to be a tourist as if there’s something wrong with that and as if she’s not one. Lots of obvious metaphors about doors and locks, plenty of breezes that ruffle her hair, and some toe c......more