Civilisation Française by Mary Fleming ~a Review

by Susan Roberts

I'm drawn to books that take place in Paris - sometimes it ends up being a great book and sometimes it doesn't.  This one ended up being a great choice.  It's character-driven driven so there's not a lot of action but what marvelous characters exist in the pages of this book.  Plus there are references and descriptions of places all over Paris which really made me fall in love with it.

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The Art of Regret by Mary Fleming ~ a Review

 by Susan Roberts

"For many years, in what might have been the prime of my life, I lived and worked on the rue des Martyrs. This narrow market street, which begins its climb at the northern edge of the banking and insurance district and ends in the skein of streets that wraps around Sacre Coeur at the heart of Montmartre, is not on the tourist circuit and has no pretensions to Parisian grandeur.  Behind and above its modest shop fronts are forgettable lives." (p 9)