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French Lessons: A Novel - Community Reviews back

by Ellen Sussman
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Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 8 years ago
Character studies of 3 French tutors and their American students. Nico wants to save Josie. Phillippe wants to bed Riley. Chantal isn't sure what she wants. I liked these stories. All of them take place on one day when a film is being filmed in Paris and each story ends with the filming. None of the...
The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it 11 years ago
Over the course of one beautiful Parisian day three Americans will each spend the day with a private French tutor. Each is trying to get away from something--an event, an intolerable situation, a rut--and each is trying to make their way to something better. Josie, a high school French teacher, is ...
Unputdownable Books
Unputdownable Books rated it 12 years ago
I used to love France and all it's beautiful glory as the city of love and passion but somehow this book ruined it for me. Now, I see France as a beautiful city of disloyalty, cheaters and two timers. When I first read the synopsis of the book, I expected exactly that. LOVE. New found love ignited b...
Great Imaginations
Great Imaginations rated it 13 years ago
There are three semi-short stories that are the main meat of this book. The stories are intertwined by the prologue and the epilogue of three french tutors. The stories involve each of the tutors and their students as they spend a day in Paris together. The French tutors names are Nico, Phillipe, an...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 13 years ago
I would like to preface my review with this: I don't love books with gratuitous, descriptive sex scenes; it tends to lower the book's value in my estimation and they are intended for a different kind of audience than my profile. In all of the vignettes there are explicit, vivid sex scenes which see...
Book Brats
Book Brats rated it 13 years ago
I was lucky to receive an ARC of FRENCH LESSONS from a Goodreads contest, and being the sucker that I am for chick lit and France, I was eager to read it. I finally found myself picking it up and jumping in, and the first thing I noticed was the writing style – third person, present tense, and a di...
Books Are Like Drugs
Books Are Like Drugs rated it 13 years ago
This was an ARC that I won from goodreads - thanks so much!This was a compilation of 3 stories set in Paris. Three people/friends/lovers employed as private French tutors and their American students enjoy the sights and sensuality of Paris.The first story tells us of a young woman who was a French ...
Reflections
Reflections rated it 14 years ago
Set during one day in the city of seduction, three French tutors and their American students walk around Paris, think about love and consider having sex in five loosely connected stories. There are no simple, romantic happy endings here, which could make the book more compelling and realistic, but s...
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it 14 years ago
This delightful book is my kind of beach read: fabulous urban location (Paris!), seemingly uncomplicated characters who actually have great depth, lovely language, and heady discussions of love and loss written in an accessible and deft way.Initially, I thought I wasn't going to dig this book since ...
Don't Panic - Megan's BookLikes
Don't Panic - Megan's BookLikes rated it 14 years ago
Warning: I apologize for the ramblings contained within the following review. It's very hot and our A/C isn't working properly. So cut me some slack.This was a nice, quick summer/beach read about three French tutors and their three American students, teaching and learning about the French language, ...
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