Paris, My Sweet
A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate)
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But does falling in love with one city mean turning your back on another? As much as Amy adored Paris, there was part of her that felt like a humble chocolate chip cookie in a sea of pristine macarons. Paris, My Sweet explores how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a salted caramel souffle's rise, as intensely satisfying as molten chocolate cake, and about how the life you're meant to live doesn't always taste like the one you envisioned.
Part love letter to Paris, part love letter to New York, and total devotion to all things sweet, Paris, My Sweet is a treasure map for anyone with a hunger for life.
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Release date
May 28, 2012 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781452627861
- File size: 208146 KB
- Duration: 07:13:38
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Cassandra Campbell narrates as Amy Thomas, a New York City freelance writer with a sweet tooth who lands a job in Paris, a city she fell in love with years earlier during a summer apartment exchange. Campbell's animated reading embodies Amy's exuberant personality, along with her moments of jealousy over a friend's love life and moments of anxiety--which are always quickly remedied by a delectable French dessert. Though at times Campbell's American accent slips through, her French pronunciation is accurate. Like the chocolates and desserts she describes, Campbell's voice is rich and enticing. She easily retains the listener's engagement with this light and sugary story about sweet times in Paris. M.F. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine -
February 20, 2012
Traveling foodies of the world, rejoiceâThomas provides the sweet scoop on Paris and New York in this mouth-watering memoir. While an associate creative director at ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, Thomas was offered a position as copywriter on the Louis Vuitton account in Paris. So she left her life in New Yorkâwhere an insatiable sweet tooth had made her a veritable expert on the city's bakeries and chocolatiersâto live in the foodie mecca of the Second Arrondissement and work in a gorgeous building on the Champs-Ãlysées. During her quest to find the best breads, desserts, and cheeses at the myriad pâtisseries, boulangeries, and bistros, Thomas revels in the historic and cultural joys of Parisâthe parks, markets, and of course the gorgeous Canal Saint-Martin. Thankfully, her vivid descriptions of baguettes, macaroons, and baba au rhum do more than merely temptâsupplemented with an extensive list of Thomas' favorite bakeries in Paris and New York, readers can get their own taste of two cities, though Thomas' is the tale to beat. Maps. -
August 27, 2012
"I studied the Lost Generation, reading Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Janet Flanner, and built a mini library so I'd never be far from Paris." This short but sweet ode to all things French informs Thomas's decision to move from Manhattan to Paris to write for Louis Vuitton and sample the finer things in life, namely dark chocolate and rich desserts. Narrator Cassandra Campbell delivers a stellar reading that is both nuanced and subtle, and all but embodies Thomas. Smart yet simple, confident yet slightly naïve, Campbell's tone is everything that Thomas was setting out on her new adventure. When Thomas longs for her old stomping grounds while attempting to reconcile her love of the French capital, Campbell manages to balance distant longing with absolute infatuation with only minor shifts in tone. A Sourcebooks paperback.
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