Le Mariage

Actuallyyyyy wtf was this So much happened that SHOULD HAVE been super intriguing but I had to force feed myself pages every time I picked this up Hated nearly every character, and there were a lot!! Whew if I could describe this in two words it would be boring and obnoxious 😗 Giving it a two bc there......more

The best part about this novel, which is linked loosely through a few characters to its prequel, Le Divorce, is its emphasis on the tragi-comic snafus in French-American relations and everyday attempts of French and American people to understand one another without becoming too exasperated. America......more

This novel is about events leading up to the impending marriage of a Parisian horse-memorabilia dealer and a journalist born in America who has lived in Europe for many years. The plot is ostensibly about recovering a stolen illuminated manuscript whose subject is the end of the world. Johnson creat......more

i liked Le Divorce better. i did not like any of the characters in this book. and the murder mystery was such an afterthought making this reader wonder why she needs it, as if she could not carry the novel on social/national stereotypes alone. her books do that: a little mystery, little love and ang......more

This book launched my phase of infatuation with Diane Johnson and her work about expats, a culture with which I am very familiar. I still read snippets of this book and Le Divorce (never, never, never see that movie, it was an awful adaptation) every once in awhile. The author has a wonderful eye an......more