Paris Letters
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402288794 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Enchanting, memorable, romantic If ever there were a book I'd love to climb inside, an author through whom I could live vicariously, it's Janice MacLeod and PARIS LETTERS.After climbing the metaphorical advertising ladder in Los Angeles, Janice realizes her "dream job" -- and dream life -- aren't quite what she imagined. Worn out by her 9-to-5 and dreaming of so much more than a dull commute and another birthday cake for a coworker, she be. Great! Inspiring! But. Janice is sweet, her boyfriend/husband is a dream but the book is a little.boring. I feel terrible saying this. She is a fabulous artist, her story is envy inducing, she is funny and seems like someone you would love to call a friend. Yet. It seemed a little predictable at times and at times I could barely be interested in continuing to read it. I say all of this but yet if she wrote a sequel I would read it. Delightful If I could pick one word to describe this book, it would be 'delightful'. The love story is delightful, the writing, the sketches, the descriptions, the author herself - all delightful. I cried a lot when I was reading this memoir, and only once was it from something even remotely sad. The writing was just so whimsical and funny, so … poignant that I found myself blinking hard in public places to whis
But her dwindling savings force her to find a way to fund her dreams again. With a little math and a lot of determination, Janice cuts back, saves up, and buys herself two years of freedom in Europe. So Janice turns to her three loves-words, art, and Christophe-to figure out a way to make her happily-ever-after in Paris last forever.. She soon realizes that she can never return to the world of twelve-hour workdays and greasy corporate lingo. A few days into her stop in Paris, Janice meets Christophe, the cute butcher down the street-who doesn't speak English. Through a combination of sign language and franglais, they embark on a whirlwind Paris romance. A New York Times bestsellerFinding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrushand ParisHow much money does it take to quit your job?Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this questions to herself as she doodles on a notepa
Together, they have been translated into a handful of languages and have sold more than 27,000 copies. Janice MacLeod creates letters about Paris, paints them, personalizes them, and sends out monthly to adoring fans. A former advertising copywriter and associate creative director, she co-authored The Breakup Repair Kit and followed it with The Dating Repair Kit.
“It had only occurred to me in that moment that I was indeed an artist. In Paris!” And she gets the guy, too. Feeling trapped, MacLeod scraped up some cash (she helpfully lists the 100 ways she saved; number 32 is simple enough: “Traded stocks”), went to Paris (and proves she is in Paris by scattering French phrases throughout), and met an amazing man, a butcher—“He and his sexy jeans would bend down to stir up the potatoes that were roasting in drippings at the bottom of the oven.” MacLeod points out in an author’s note that most of the men she describes have more stunning qualities here than they “actually cultivated in themselves because that is how she once rolled.” The book itself, once rolling, may be c