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The House I Loved
by Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
by Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
Eileen Granfors's review
bookshelves: environment, families, friendship, grief, local-color, love-story, marriage, women
Dec 01, 11
bookshelves: environment, families, friendship, grief, local-color, love-story, marriage, women
Read from November 26 to 29, 2011
Different in substance and style.
DeRosany gained a huge audience with "Sarah's Key."
This book, "The House I Loved," won me over with the descriptions of life in Paris before Napoleon III decided to raze the city and build a monument to his greatness.
In doing so, he and his architects swept away homes like so many fallen leaves, disregarding the impact of moving thousands of citizens out of their old homes. They paid for the "inconvenience," but money cannot buy a neighborhood.
The book is written as both letters and meditations by Rose Bazelet as she waits for the house to fall down around her. She remembers her youth, her marriage, her friends.
The atmosphere of Paris is well defined in this book. The plot is somewhat hazy and then the "big" surprise at the end isn't so big at all.
I liked the book well enough, but I wouldn't call it great fiction. For me, the local color aspect wins.
DeRosany gained a huge audience with "Sarah's Key."
This book, "The House I Loved," won me over with the descriptions of life in Paris before Napoleon III decided to raze the city and build a monument to his greatness.
In doing so, he and his architects swept away homes like so many fallen leaves, disregarding the impact of moving thousands of citizens out of their old homes. They paid for the "inconvenience," but money cannot buy a neighborhood.
The book is written as both letters and meditations by Rose Bazelet as she waits for the house to fall down around her. She remembers her youth, her marriage, her friends.
The atmosphere of Paris is well defined in this book. The plot is somewhat hazy and then the "big" surprise at the end isn't so big at all.
I liked the book well enough, but I wouldn't call it great fiction. For me, the local color aspect wins.
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Nov 30, 2011 09:37pm
Sounds like it was more like Sarah's Key and less like A Secret Kept. Eager to hear your full review!
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