Fiction

CTyankee

(65,300 posts) Tue Dec 25, 2012, 10:56 AM Dec 2012

Just getting around to reading "The Paris Wife." I'm just loving this book!

I'd be interested in hearing about insights and thoughts anyone else had about it.

I was also wondering if there was ever any talk of making it into a movie. It certainly would be entertaining.

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Just getting around to reading "The Paris Wife." I'm just loving this book! (Original Post) CTyankee Dec 2012 OP

Good to know. Mz Pip Jan 2013 #1

I liked it so much I got "A Moveable Feast" out of the library and read that. CTyankee Jan 2013 #4

I don't know if you can see this link Lex Jan 2013 #2

Thanks for that! CTyankee Jan 2013 #5

thanks for the link. wish there was an advanced search so you could search by highest rated Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #11

My Older Daughter Adores This Book. Paladin Jan 2013 #3

tell her to also read "A Moveable Feast." It gives Hemingway's own take on this time in his life. CTyankee Jan 2013 #6

"Feast" Is My Favorite Hemingway. Paladin Jan 2013 #7

well, if she liked Paris Wife she'll be curious, as I was, about Moveable Feast... CTyankee Jan 2013 #8

Am about 60 pages into it Mz Pip Jan 2013 #9

It's a great add-on if you read that novel first. I found it all rather sad for Hemingway, who was CTyankee Jan 2013 #10

Mz Pip

(27,939 posts)

1. Good to know.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 02:10 PM

Jan 2013

I just downloaded it from the library. We're reading it for bookclub so I was hoping it would be something interesting and engaging.

CTyankee

(65,300 posts)

4. I liked it so much I got "A Moveable Feast" out of the library and read that.

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:39 AM

Jan 2013

Hemingway really regretted losing Hadley over his affair with Pauline. He said in the closing pages of the book "I wish I had died before loving anyone but her." And, of course, just a couple of years later he blew his brains out...

Lex

(34,108 posts)

2. I don't know if you can see this link

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 02:57 PM

Jan 2013

or if you have to have a log-in at goodreads.com, but here's a bunch of discussion about the book:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_book/8683812-the-paris-wife

CTyankee

(65,300 posts)

5. Thanks for that!

Reply to Lex (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:39 AM

Jan 2013

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

11. thanks for the link. wish there was an advanced search so you could search by highest rated

Reply to Lex (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:53 AM

Mar 2013

in a category. Have you done that? did I miss it?

Paladin

(28,979 posts)

3. My Older Daughter Adores This Book.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 12:08 PM

Jan 2013

She's a pretty tough cookie, but she told me the book brought her to tears, repeatedly. I'll probably end up reading it, before too much longer.

CTyankee

(65,300 posts)

6. tell her to also read "A Moveable Feast." It gives Hemingway's own take on this time in his life.

Reply to Paladin (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:42 AM

Jan 2013

Plus, a VERY funny chapter on his misadventure with F. Scott Fitzgerald, going to Lyon to pick up Fitzgerald's Renault which was being repaired after an accident.

Paladin

(28,979 posts)

7. "Feast" Is My Favorite Hemingway.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:56 AM

Jan 2013

I know I've recommended it to the daughter; need to check on whether she's read it, yet.

CTyankee

(65,300 posts)

8. well, if she liked Paris Wife she'll be curious, as I was, about Moveable Feast...

Reply to Paladin (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 11:00 AM

Jan 2013

I just loved it...and it complemented the Paris Wife...

Mz Pip

(27,939 posts)

9. Am about 60 pages into it

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #8)

Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:41 PM

Jan 2013

Am really enjoying it.

Will definitely check out Movable Feast.

CTyankee

(65,300 posts)

10. It's a great add-on if you read that novel first. I found it all rather sad for Hemingway, who was

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #9)

Sun Jan 20, 2013, 08:48 PM

Jan 2013

so blinded by his own ego that he lost the true love of his life. He ended up killing himself a couple of years after Feast was published.

On a personal note, my then husband and I named our daughter (born the year Feast was published) after Hadley Hemingway. She gets compliments on her name to this day on her name!

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