On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather

Today we went over the short story, On Gull's Road by Willa Cather and a couple of short story questions. It is a narrator's story of a woman he fell in love with twenty years ago on a cruise ship that was headed to New York City from Italy. We all enjoyed the story and had quotes and images and actions to share with each other, and we all agreed others would love to read it like we did. The descriptions Willa Cather uses to describe the places they travel by are stunning, and we all had imagery that stuck with us as we read the story. This sentence is one of my favorites used to describe the coast of Sardinia: "A narrow strip of beach glistening like white paint between the purple sea and the umber rocks, and the whole island lay gleaming in the yellow sunshine and translucent air." On Friday, we'll read a two-page short story and also share a few bits of writing we bring into our session.