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Streetwise Paris Map - Laminated City Street Map of Paris, France - with integrated metro map including lines ...
Streetwise Maps
Streetwise Maps, 2008
Very Useful Map Of Central Paris
I generally like the "Streetwise" series of laminated maps, and their Paris map is no exception. It is compact, clear, easy to use, and exceptionally durable. It covers the city center of Paris, and the front side centers along the middle of the city with the Seine ...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 2001
Still the One
By far my favorite of all his books. Dress Your Family in Corduroy comes in second and Naked comes in third. His new one with the skeleton on the cover didn't impress. His dry wit and sarcasm make me laugh out loud. He is able to instill humor in the most ...
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Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky
Vintage, 2007
Wanted more and more!! .such a tragedy she is gone...
A book like this only comes around once in a while and touched me greatly and even though the author died tragically at Auschwitz in 1942 she will be in my memory forever.. Thank god her daughter got this book published. I fell in love with all the characters who were ...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press, 2007
Beautiful Storytelling
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" takes place in Paris, in the early 20th century. It tells the tale of an orphan named Hugo who secretely lives in a train station and fixes the clocks, unbeknownst to the stationmaster. Hugo is not just an ordinary boy however. In ...
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Madeline, Reissue of 1939 edition
Ludwig Bemelmans Author And Illustrator
Viking Press, 1967
A great children's book
"In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines." In 1939, Ludwig Bemelmans began writing stories about a group of girls in a school in Paris, foremost among whom was the irrepressible Madeline. Those books are now ...
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Quiet Corners of Paris
Jean-Christophe Napias
Little Bookroom, 2007
Not your usual Paris sights
A friend gave us this book before we left for a month's visit to Paris. We had been there, done that three times before, so we welcomed a guide to the kinds of places we had overlooked on previous visits. This book accomplished that. We visited more than half of the ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
Rewarding
Some honest disclosures. My strongest academic credentials relevant to literary criticism are that I minored in English. I have never been a "student" of Dickens. I enjoy Shakespeare plays in the same manner that I enjoy analyzing baseball games: I always get the ...
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Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris (I Can Read Book 1)
Jane O'connor
HarperTrophy, 2008
Marvelous (fancy for great) & hilarious (fancy for so funny)!
Really enjoyed this one, possibly the best of Nancy for us (--this is our third Nancy-book). I was surprised to find the Nancy stories so enjoyable. Was pleasantly surprised too to find this as a reader, and it has great story. My girls both like these (& this one), ...
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Rick Steves' Paris 2008 (Rick Steves)
Rick Steves, Steve Smith, ...
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2007
Must Have!
I thought this book was really helpful. The maps were great, just wish we had studied them a little more before we went! We had a great time in Paris and took the book with us everywhere we went. It helped us decide (before we went) which sights to see and which to ...
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My Life in France
Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
Anchor, 2007
My Love of Julia Child
I bought this book sometime ago meaning to read it. But as I am in the 1st year of starting my new business (a pastry shop) I have not had time. But then I remembered Audio Books so I downloaded it and I am now in the process of listening to it. Julia's love of food ...
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Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
George M. Taber
Scribner, 2006
Best History of California Winemaking
I bought this book thinking is was all about the 1976 Tasting in Paris but it turns out that this book is really the history of California Winemaking and all of the characters that have put California Wines where they are today. For the lover of California wines, this ...
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Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
Clotilde Dusoulier
Broadway, 2008
Never steered us wrong!
Just returned from our first trip to Paris and ate at about 7-8 of the recommended restaurants/shops in this book. EVERY recommendation was perfect; I don't think I've ever had a travel guidebook that seemed so spot on! The shops Ms Dusoulier mentions are charming ...
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A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
The Writer's Life
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of his early days in Paris, is nearly bursting with rich, poignant details of what it was like to be young and hopeful and excited. It's all there--Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the horse chestnut trees in ...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Harvest Books, 1972
To Write Well, One Must Live & Experience It in all its Reality.
Orwell began as an idealist and remained one until his untimely death at the age of 48 from tuberculosis. In most of the photographs I can find of the great writer, he always has a smoke in his mouth, typing away, while a white haze of thoughts, ideas, nicotine and tar ...
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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
Gaston Leroux
Harper Perennial, 1988
Better than I'd have thought!
I started this book with low expectations, but was plesantly suprised that I turned out to love this book! I would also recommed "Phantom" by Susan Kay.
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