My Review

I wanted to like this book. I really did. I read the summary and it sounded right up my alley. When I started reading, though it turned out she had taken Facebook status updates and turned them into a book. The result felt disjointed and there was no cohesion to the book. It was impossible for me to get lost in her world of Paris. Instead, after every little paragraph I would be jerked out of the story. I tried to relax and open my mind to new ways of telling a story, but I just couldn’t do it.

The snippets were good. I just couldn’t handle that one paragraph that it would be summer then the next it was Christmas. I decided to make a list of what I liked and didn’t like.

Liked

The story (parts of them) that she told about her time in Paris

Her honesty

Her sense of humor

What I did not like

The method of telling the story in Facebook status update style

The disjointed feeling I got while reading the book

The liked list has one more item than they did not like list so I guess overall I DID like it well enough to at least get through the book, but it did not wow me. I had high hopes as I love travel memoirs but this one was a disappointment.