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    <body><![CDATA[The author, an Australian television journalist, on a whim, heads to Paris to stay with a man, a French lawyer, that she's met only twice. The book is billed as a love story, though we actually see very little of Frederic, her future husband, other than brief caricatured appearances - after picking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5275951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kirsten gave this to me for the plane ride. <br/><br/>I enjoyed Turnbull's interpretation of life in France. I also liked how she was able to find a line between her own traditions and the traditions of her adopted home. It was refreshing to see that she neither tried to cling to heritage, nor ent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51137331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>What I learned.....<br/>         ... Parisians are rude and pompous<br/>         ... It is difficult to make friends with French women because they are more interested in men<br/>             and perceive other women as competition.  <br/>         ... bureaucracy is a pain in the butt<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75942805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gobbled this book down whole. Unlike so many of a similar genre it is unpretentious and very honest; very human, in a good sense. Turnbull is surprised to find herself visiting a Frenchman she's barely met in Paris. Despite and perhaps because of misunderstandings and explanations about their very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45118027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As delicious as a mararoon from Laduree, and as charming as a canal-side village in Burgundy, for Francophiles forced to live so far away in the Antipodes, this lovely, oft-times hilarious, little book - taken, naturally, with a generous glass of red - provides a delightful interlude. Do yourself a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49837042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Australian journalist Sarah Turnbull took a big chance diving into French society the way she did--and it panned out!  She had left her job as a television reporter in Sydney to travel around Europe for a year, and while in Bucharest, Romania, she met a charming Frenchman named Frederic.    Though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56209310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't quite finish with this. I got half way through the book and was just not that interested. I ended up falling asleep twice. Don't get me wrong. It's not really that it is boring. The author talks about her life in France, and her adjustment, and I enjoyed that and felt liked I learned a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77336532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating book that taught me more about the French then all of my years taking French in high school and college.  Turnbull is frank, but respectful, about her life in Paris as an expatriate.  It certainly made me want to go to Paris again.<br/><br/>I would have given this book 5 star...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64937515">more...</a>]]></body>
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