Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate)

Delicious read

I did so enjoy reading of two great cities, wonderful treats to savour. The writing carried me along side her. The swearing, more towrds the end, did leave me with a sour taste. (Please leave it out in your next writing.)

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Great Travel Memoir

Amy Thomas fell in love with Paris on a trip in her late teens. She dreamed of living there, and after years of work in the advertising field, she was offered a dream job. She could take a contract to work on the advertising of Louis Vuitton, but would have to move to Paris and work there. Amy jumped at the chance as it was her dream come true.

Amy's other passion was quality desserts. She had, as a side interest, created a blog about sweets and where to find the best ones in New York. She dreamed about expanding this with all the wonderful new sweet shops and French confections she would find in Paris. Amy spent her first weeks there touring the famous shops and discovering new ones.

Paris My Sweet combines both the story of Thomas's two years in Paris and her love of anything sweet. Each chapter talks about an issue common to those starting a new job, moving to a new city, or being a woman on the cusp of middle age who is still single and adventurous but starting to wonder about love, marriage and children. Each chapter also features a category of sweet such as the madeline or cupcakes or macarons. At the end of each chapter is a page outlining the best places to find that category of sweet, both in New York and in Paris.

Paris My Sweet will appeal to a wide variety of readers. It is great travel writing. Foodies will be thrilled to read about the variety and intensity of flavors available in the dessert category as well as the guide to the best places to find specific categories. Overall, the book will appear to women working on finding their place in the world, finding that mix of work and family/love that works for them. Throughout the book, Thomas is revealed as a woman questioning her life but ultimately satisfied with her choices, a woman with a zest for life and who loves to share with others. This book is recommended for all these categories of readers.

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Fun easy read about life and chocolate

Read this book while traveling in Paris for the first time. Interesting to see the differences between traveling there and living there. Also enjoyed seeing the actual shops she was talking about in the book. The guide in the back was the best because I didn't have to search through the chapters to remember a shop name. Will use next time I visit NYC and enjoyed the comparisons between both cities.

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People, sweets, biking, a dream job all in Paris! Loved it!

I enjoyed the time I spent with the author as she explored life, love and desserts! I appreciated that it seemed an honest approach. I will hope to have my NOOK with me next time I get to Paris so I can use the lists with addresses to find some highlighted sweets!

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One of my new favorite books. I hope to go to Paris someday!

One of my new favorite books. I hope to go to Paris someday!

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MAKES ME WANT MOVE TO PARIS.........AT LEAST FOR A YEAR.......

This memoir of the author's time in Paris is an absolutely charming, witty, sad, delicious (so many bakeries to visit!), can't-put-down-book. Amy writes so well and describes her surroundings in such vivid detail that the reader will feel like she is right there with her; I wish! Buy this.

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I loved the book. I visited Paris a week last year, and will re

I loved the book. I visited Paris a week last year, and will return for a week this year. I love to order something from the menu and just enjoy the experience. And the sweets.......oh, the sweets. I've bookmarked (on my Nook Tablet) many, many pages within this book, highlighting endless sweet options for my next visit to the fabulous city. I have friends who have lived in Paris for three months and I know the sadness they experience when leaving the city to return home to the USA. The city is magical, and the author shares that on page after page of this book. With Paris map in hand, thank you Amy for the inspiration to endlessly search for just 'one more bite...'

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Paris my Sweet: a beautiful book

Paris my Sweet is a beautiful book. What I like about this book is that I love how Amy Thomas described how she felt, the sweet treats, and the city. I reccomend this book to people who love the City of Light.

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Delicious!

I am so glad I saw this book in the B&N store just by chance! I am partial to all things French since I was a French major and studied abroad there too but it was reading her sincere note to her friends and family at the beginning of the book that I knew I just had to get this on my Nook! This is my first Amy Thomas book and I am a fan. Her descriptions of desserts both in NYC and Paris are so vivid it made me go out to local bakeries just to quench my sweet cravings! I love that she includes addresses of all the places she writes about so her readers can actually go to the places. NYC is close so I will definitely get to many of those but Paris is in the near future and I can't wait to try out all those decadent sweets she describes! I am a busy working mom so this is the perfect kind of book to read just for the fun of it. Nothing too deep or thought provoking but this was a great book to relax and unwind to with a nice hot cup of tea (and a sweet treat) after a stressful day!

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This is a DELIGHTFUL, fun read! Paris may be out of reach right

This is a DELIGHTFUL, fun read! Paris may be out of reach right now but I'm on the hunt for French Bakeries and noted chocolatiers! 

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Quick read!

Very fun! Makes you want to go to Paris!

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I loved this book and Denise Acabo was everything she said and m

I loved this book and Denise Acabo was everything she said and more.

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lots of "buts" on this book.

This book took me a long time to read, when that happen's it means it just doesn't "thrill" me. I loved the story about people, about describing Paris, and NY----but (yes there is a but here) too, too, too much about the descriptions of the food. It got really boring after about 2 chapters, and every chapter is filled with it. The book went into depth of the preparation, presentation, taste of the wonderful and smell of a chocolate chip cookie, and a "prestine" macarons. What does that even mean, a "prestine macaron???" What did I learn from this book? That deserts are wonderful.....I think I already knew that. My advice is if your trying to lose weight, or even maintaine your weight, don't read this book.

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