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The story of a family living in Paris for a year was delightful and well written in the form of a diary of sorts. Not only was it filled with many known and little known restaurants, shops and museums but also includes recipes of delicious foods. The author writes with good humor as a mother of two typical children attending school being taught in a foreign language. The husband is Italian, so we get to travel there with them to visit his relatives and learn about what that country has to offer. Being an art enthusiast who loved visiting Paris and its architecture, galleries of all sorts of art as well as the foods and shops, this book brought back good memories and makes me want to go back to this land of enchantment!


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Paris in Love A Memoir Eloisa James 9781400069569 Books Reviews

A lovely collection of short vignettes of the writer and her family's yearlong adventure in Paris. This story is written with love and shares the daily incidents that make up each family members' Paris experience. The vignettes are glimpses into the daily events that are life-shaping, events that makeup and define lives and events that provide a guide to a life well-lived!
A wonderful book that calls you back until you complete the read with a sense of satisfaction!
This book contains mostly short tidbits originally written for Facebook and/or Twitter by the author with a few 5-8 page stories sprinkled in. I don't buy a book to read the same things I can get on Facebook or Twitter. I buy a book to get in-depth stories that make me see, hear, and smell a place. It's not that she doesn't have some interesting stories, it's just that I was always wanting more detail than the few lines for each piece. I also think the title is misleading in multiple ways 1. Much of the time is spent in Paris, but much of the time is also spent in other places; 2. I never figured out who or what the "in Love" part refers to. Her family? Paris itself? I like a title that makes sense, not one that misleads; 3. Many of the short blurbs could have happened anywhere as the author muses about clothing, dogs, children, the weather, etc. It didn't make me feel like I was in Paris.
This is not a book, it's a series of short (2-3 sentence) anecdotes strung together in no apparent order. I found the lack of a true narrative structure pretty annoying and stopped reading before the end. The author says it's from her Facebook and Twitter posts in the introduction . . . fair enough, but had I known that from the book's description I would have passed on this. She obviously has writing skills but I don't like this being marketed as a book.
I think that many people have thought about leaving the life they are living behind, and doing something completely different, if only for a little while. Most often when people do find the inner resolve to make a big life change it is because some life event has occurred to spur them on. Such was the case of Eloisa James. It was watching her mother lose a battle with cancer and then James herself being diagnosed with cancer that spurred her thinking about somehow experiencing life more fully. After her own cancer was dealt with, because thankfully it was caught early and was treatable, she and her husband took the steps to make a change. They sold their home and cars, took leaves from their academic positions, uprooted their children from their familiar neighborhood and schools and left for Paris. They went for a year. This lovely book chronicles that year. It is written in snippets of experiences as life for her family unfolds in Paris. These snippets include pictures of life revolving around Parisian florists and butchers and restaurants and dealing with their children experiencing school in a foreign country. There is much humor in this book as James speaks of her family and her extended family who happen to be Italian coming to visit, along with the obese family dog, Milo. When James describes the snowfall of Paris drifting outside her family apartment you are standing by those windows with her. When she tells of her daughter's school play, which is one of the funniest scenes in a memoir that I have ever read, the reader is in the audience - laughing. And when James tells of traveling to see one of her dearest friends lose her own battle with cancer, the reader is touched beyond telling, because it is here where her friend tells all of us, through James, to be there for our own lives. In the reading of this sweet, funny and touching book the reader is gently told to be present for life, because it is short and not to be missed. So, don't miss this book, you will love it.
The story of a family living in Paris for a year was delightful and well written in the form of a diary of sorts. Not only was it filled with many known and little known restaurants, shops and museums but also includes recipes of delicious foods. The author writes with good humor as a mother of two typical children attending school being taught in a foreign language. The husband is Italian, so we get to travel there with them to visit his relatives and learn about what that country has to offer. Being an art enthusiast who loved visiting Paris and its architecture, galleries of all sorts of art as well as the foods and shops, this book brought back good memories and makes me want to go back to this land of enchantment!