After a week long study in Paris early this year it was interesting to see the city through the eyes of someone else, even more so from the eyes of someone that has given walking tours and turned something that is a part of their everyday life into something to display(or share depending on how s...
Most disappointing book I've read in awhile. I should LOVE this book - it's about my favorite holiday and my favorite city. But Baxter spends far too much time talking about old girlfriends, religious hangups and other tangents that seem unrelated to the main point of the book. There was not one,...
I almost gave up on this book on page 33 where Baxter misspells the name of French politician Jean Jaurès as Juarès not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES on the same page. The fourth time, it's spelled correctly, so clearly this is just horribly bad editing. But I continued to read anyway. The boo...
Si j’avais été plus familière avec la biographie mouvementée d’Octave Mirbeau, peut-être j’aurais été moins surprise à la lecture de ce livre qui a contredit en tout temps mon horizon d’attente suggéré par le titre. Mais, dans ma bonne tradition, si je n’ai pas d’avance des connaissances sur un a...
They call it a Royale with Cheese.JULES: What do they call a Whopper?VINCENT: I didn’t go into Burger King.Quentin Tarantino, Pulp FictionWhatever other ingredients might make up my banquet, it hardly needed emphasizing that the most important dish, the centerpiece, must involve beef.Veal is the ...