This month we have the third choice from our reading selection - The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Hope you enjoy it. Our meeting will be hosted by Jackie at the beginning of April. Enjoy!
It sounds like the meeting went really well. Sorry that I couldn't be a part of it. Here are my two cents worth...
I enjoyed the book, probably more so because it was biographical. I find it really interesting to think that people conducted their lives in this sort of manner - live in Paris, holiday in Switzerland, go to the bull-fights in Spain, sit in the cafes of Paris to see who comes along. I was surprised (?) at just how much time was spent drinking!
Within this sort of life-style it would have been almost impossible to maintain a solid relationship between husband and wife, with everyone trying to get a piece of the action.
The one image that the whole book brings to me is one of Pablo Picasso at the bull-fights - not exactly an Earnest Hemmingway image, but one that I can't seem to shake.
Maybe I should actually read some of Earnest Hemmingway's stories...
It sounds like the meeting went really well. Sorry that I couldn't be a part of it.
ReplyDeleteHere are my two cents worth...
I enjoyed the book, probably more so because it was biographical. I find it really interesting to think that people conducted their lives in this sort of manner - live in Paris, holiday in Switzerland, go to the bull-fights in Spain, sit in the cafes of Paris to see who comes along. I was surprised (?) at just how much time was spent drinking!
Within this sort of life-style it would have been almost impossible to maintain a solid relationship between husband and wife, with everyone trying to get a piece of the action.
The one image that the whole book brings to me is one of Pablo Picasso at the bull-fights - not exactly an Earnest Hemmingway image, but one that I can't seem to shake.
Maybe I should actually read some of Earnest Hemmingway's stories...