Book Review: Me, Myself and Paris by Ruth Yunker

Synopsis: As half resident and half visitor, the witty Newport Beach,CA denizen takes on Paris in three six-week visits, and reports to her readers her adventures as an irreverent, wide eyed California woman grappling with everyday living and dutiful sightseeing in the City of Light.A California newspaper writer with a column that humorously observes the foibles of the community in which she lives, Ruth comes well prepared to chronicle her adventures in Paris She shows her readers what Paris looks like, feels like, smells like, and tastes like to an American woman brave enough to face the vagaries of metro ticket agents and unassuming shopkeepers, while still trying to emulate chic, windblown Parisian women wearing no lipstick.



Me, Myself and Paris covers the romantic and the beautiful trudge of its city life. Ruth sees that it is both the most beautiful and the most temperamental city in the world, where to a woman from America, free and unfettered, willing to do (almost) everything the Parisian way, the locals are still sometimes foe, sometimes neighborly Samaritans.

About the Author: Ruth Yunker is a writer and humorist, a columnist and blogger, a short story writer and essayist. She currently lives in Newport Beach, California, does the New York Times crossword puzzle with an erasable pen, has two grown children, and is down to one aging cat.

Review:  Want a travel guide to Paris? Pick up this book instead! REALLY!! Ruth perfectly describes the 'real' Paris, along with the tourist stops. She makes you want to rent an apartment and delve into Paris the way she did, with your own boots of chocolate suede "with toes sharp enough to slice tomatoes"! Each chapter is unique to itself and offers great moments of life in a foreign country, be it the unspoken rules of bagging one's own groceries, or which is THE pastry to buy at any of the local bakeries.This is a great book to make you wish you were in Paris, or on your way, and will definitely get you thinking GIRLS trip!



Disclosure / Disclaimer:  I received this book, free of charge, through Bostick PR,  for blog review purposes! No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to review it.