If I never wanted to go to Paris before I do now. Ms. James writing reads like a travel log with short quick views of her and her families adventure in Paris. She has just went through a battle with cancer and has a fresh view on life she shares with her readers. She has run a away from it all to Pa...
The book begins: " in December of 2007, my mother died of cancer; two weeks later I was diagnosed with the same disease." Best selling author Eloisa James took a sabbatical, sold her house, and moved her 11 year old daughter and 15 year son and husband to Paris for a year. You will laugh, cry and ex...
I really enjoyed this book. I liked the short entries and how they bounced around between serious and humor, observations on the kids or France. Sometimes, you could see the magical presented in the everyday.
After a bout with cancer, romance novelist Eloisa James took a sabbatical from her university job as a Shakespeare scholar and moved to Paris with her family, where she rightfully enjoyed a year of doing nothing much at all. While there she tweeted and posted Facebook updates on the quirks and jo...
Best-selling romance author (and professor of Shakespearean studies) Eloisa James makes a decision upon learning she's survived breast cancer: she wants to take a sabbatical and live in Paris. Her husband agrees to do the same, so they sell their suburban home, pack up their two children and take ...
Eloisa James (aka Mary Bly) writes some of the most beautiful descriptive passages I have read in a long time. This memoir of her year in Paris with her Italian husband and their 2 children was funny, poetic, a little sad and a lot joyful. I am not typically a romance reader so I was unaware of Ms. ...
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