Book Lovers Day: Aka How to Travel Without Leaving Your Chair (book review)

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Did you know there was also a Book Lover's Day?

I didn't either, but there is!

What is it about books that brings smiles to our faces?

I think it is because they allow us to travel the world, both real and imaginative, meet the most interesting people, and take part in situations, that we might otherwise never do.

In other words-we can become someone else, even if it is only for 300 pages!

Two years ago I shared with you about Ruth Yunker's wonderful tale about Paris,

Me, Myself and Paris, and I am happy to share her followup book,

Paris, I've Grown Accustomed to Your Ways book today!

Synopsis: Metro Cowboys, Tiny Elevators, Trusting The New Patisserie...

"Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways" continues the saga begun in Me, Myself and Paris, humorist and writer Ruth Yunker's account of her forays into life in Paris, part time tourist, part time resident. In Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways the training wheels have come off. Ms. Yunker negotiates the exquisitely charming, but impossibly exacting, City of Light with a new sense of ease, and an increasing sense of feeling right at home. She revels in the amber warmth of Angelina's chocolate Eden on a cold November day. She zeroes in on, after six visits, her favorite arrondissement in which to rent her apartment...the fifteenth, just so you know! She shops in Montmartre with aplomb, and still does not climb up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 

She sees passionate love in unexpected places out on the streets of Paris. She watches cowboys riding the metros, and considers the sweet life of a lemon as it rolls out of her apartment door. A little boy in St. Suplice wins her heart. The concierge at the apartment on rue Vaneau does not. She discovers there are rules for finishing one's plate in restaurants. But there are no rules for which pain rustique will make the very best toast every morning. In Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways, Ruth Yunker delves deeply to discover what makes the heart of Paris sing, and emerges more in love than ever

Review: Ah Ruth- you have taken me to Paris and helped me to want to STAY there and not come back! This book more so than her first one, grabbed me and would not let go- the story of the lemon? I laughed and smiled and had to pass the tale on, but somehow I never quite got the nuances that Ruth gave it in the retelling! She had me wanting to beg to see the picture of the yellow umbrella on the rain slick cobblestones and to invest in the lightest weight travel umbrella possible! 

Ruth brings the nuances of everyday life in a foreign country to use- the greeting of the shopkeeper, the commenting on their dog, they why's of no envelopes with the gorgeous cards for sale, the source of the tap-tapping in all the apartments she rented (not going to divulge- you'll have to read the book!). I took my time reading this book, in order to better experience the visions she presented. If you dream of a trip to Paris, pick up this book, you will NOT be disappointed. Except maybe that Ruth didn't share her photos in it! LOL.

Let this book be your guide to an adventure that awaits you in Paris, within it's 200 pages!

About the Author:  I am a humorist, writer, and columnist. I live in Southern California, and am almost okay with that. I've been writing for years, starting with short stories, which I published in several literary journals. Concurrently I wrote magazine articles, book reviews, astrology columns and self-help columns for single mothers. That was back when I was a single mother. 

My book ME, MYSELF and PARIS came to be...well because a writer's life is grist for the mill. A few years ago I went to Paris with the intent of getting away from it all, for as long as I could. I went for six weeks, rented an apartment, and lived half as a tourist, and half as a resident. By the end of that six weeks, I thought I had a book. It took two more trips to really have a book...and the result was ME, MYSELF and PARIS, One Toe Under the Eiffel Tower, The Other In the Grocery Store. 

I kept going back, and now I have released PARIS, I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO YOUR WAYS. It's all about being the best American woman I can be while abroad...laughing and stumbling and getting it right, and learning I can shop in Paris and get out alive! My next book is...gestating. And for me, that is the best part. For more on Ruth, check out her a column and blog!