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Title: I don't even think I'm going to finish it.
Review: This type of book is right up my alley. I'm a Francophile. It normally doesn't take much quaint Frenchyness to please me, but somehow this book completely lacks it. I just read over some of the low-scoring reviews and feel I have permission to not even finish it. It's just boring! The first several evenings of reading the book, my impression was, "she's not a very good writer." I doubted myself, "she's a successful writer, how can this be?" I don't know. Here's how I'd sum it up: her stories don't transport one to France. I really don't care about how "luxurious" it feels walking on the in-floor heating in her house. The most interesting thing about this book (I bought a used copy) was the business cards and boarding pass (not for a flight to France, sadly) that fell from it's pages. TryFrom Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurantby Michael S. Sanders, instead.
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