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

Author: Amy Thomas

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2012

Synopsis

Forever a girl obsessed with all things French, sweet freak Amy Thomas landed a gig as rich as the purest dark chocolate: leave Manhattan for Paris to write ad copy for Louis Vuitton. Working on the Champs-Élysées, strolling the charming streets, and exploring the best patisseries and boulangeries, Amy marveled at the magnificence of the City of Light.

But does falling in love with one city mean turning your back on another? As much as Amy adored Paris, there was part of her that felt like a humble chocolate chip cookie in a sea of pristine macarons. Paris, My Sweet explores how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a salted caramel souffle's rise, as intensely satisfying as molten chocolate cake, and about how the life you're meant to live doesn't always taste like the one you envisioned.

Part love letter to Paris, part love letter to New York, and total devotion to all things sweet, Paris, My Sweet is a treasure map for anyone with a hunger for life.

About Amy Thomas

Amy Thomas is a New York-based writer who, for two lucky years, got to call Paris home. In addition to working as a copywriter in advertising, she writes about food, travel, design, and fashion for various publications such as the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Town & Country, and Every Day with Rachael Ray. She is slightly obsessed with sweets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Malarie on July 09, 2013

This book was SUCH a let down. I've wanted to go to Paris and love chocolate, so I thought this would be a fun, vicarious read. I couldn't have been more wrong. This book is the most self indulgent, snobby book I have ever read. Really, the biggest existential dilemma you have is whether to stay in......more

Goodreads review by Reid on June 02, 2012

Much like the macarons of which she is so fond, this book is sweet, light, airy, insubstantial and, in the end, not really all that satisfying. It is a very personal memoir that nonetheless doesn't go very deep, by which I mean that Thomas shares some of her conflicts and issues, but at the end of t......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on March 08, 2017

Interested in more of my reviews? Visit my blog! *sigh*… Paris. And pastries. :) What could be better? ‘I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on February 19, 2012

Paris My Sweet is Amy Thomas’s memoir of her moving to Paris for a job. Although, it was not just for any job. Amy was offered a job working for famed designer, Louis Vuitton. She wrote ad copies. Thus the journey begins for Ms. Thomas. I could tell from this book just how much Ms. Thomas really lov......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on March 16, 2016

(I’ve read so many great books about Paris during this wonderful month of Paris in July that I’m a little nervous about mixing up my plots. Paris My Sweet is yet another one.) Amy Thomas (get ready for the swell of covetousness that is about to overtake you) goes to Paris to write ad copy for Louis V......more

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