Her book is full of spontaneous decisions and aimless meandering.

Few details about her writing process.

Sprightly.

Perfectly captured that serendipitous nature in the personal essays that make up Wandering Through Life.

A series of short vignettes rather than a structured autobiography. Leon gives us anecdotes, but not much sense of her private or creative life. This is surprising and disappointing from an author who has so richly described her fictional Commmisario Guido Brunetti, his family, and his colleagues in her celebrated Venetian mystery series.

Brief, chatty.