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An Einem Tag In Paris (2012)

by Ellen Sussman(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3809026034 (ISBN13: 9783809026037)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Limes

review 1: Paris. Three people are taking French lessons with three different tutors. Each of these six people have something in common. A language school and a movie being filmed in Paris provide intersections for these six to interact and learn from one another.They are unsatisfied. Life is a loud, chaotic rush. They are in or are avoiding being in long-term relationships. The time spent in these lessons is a bit dreamy as most vacations are surreal compared to mundane everyday life. Each of the six is getting and giving undivided attention that they are not afforded in their real lives. The world is wild and vacations allow us to slow down. Interacting with strangers allows for re-inventing one's self--stories of their past and who they are/how they behave now. They can p... moreortray themselves as the people they want to be. The possibilities are boundless. Flirting is fun and makes one think he is falling in love. Who cannot fall in love while leisurely enjoying Paris with an attentive French tutor/student?The six main characters want slightly different things. They each look for that thing in their tutor/student, and in the end, they find/ go after what they truly want. To belong to someone. To find a love that feels like they're coming home. After all, falling in love is much easier than being in love.A lyrical story expertly told. Listening to this story, I felt that I was in Paris. I was sipping cafe creme at a sidewalk bistro watching the tale unfold.
review 2: This was trashy, but decently enjoyable as a breezy afternoon read. I blew through it in about two hours. I will admit I skimmed some of the parts I was less interested in. Riley and Phillippe interested me very little, so I didn't spend a lot of time on them (I didn't really need or care about the babies angle, but I can see how for mothers it would be different). I found Josie's story the most compelling, and spent the most time with her- I wish that part had been longer. Also, what was the point of bringing everybody to the Big Party at the End if nothing was going to come of that? Just for the sake of the mirror? Riley and Josie were recognizable people to me, and Lindy. But that was about it.It wasn't as sexy as it was trying to be (except for very occasional moments), but I will say that I appreciated some of its frank discussion of the shades of love and desire and what they are likely to mean in the moment- or not. This wasn't as breathlessly in love with the city itself as many of these type of novels can be. I don't know whether that was good or not- in some ways Paris itself was underutilized. Though, then again, that was far from the point. The book just wanted a setting where certain things are seen as being permitted.Pure, average escapism. less

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