"I've watched Eloisa James' writing career since she first became a published romance author. While never particularly drawn to her fiction, when I saw this book available on Amazon Vine, I ordered it. Why? Because I enjoy this type of memoir. Going in readers should know that James doesn't present her year in Paris in a traditional sense. Instead, she's taken Tweets and Facebook entries and worked from there. Some are expanded into short essays--some are simply paragraphs of observations. Given that she lets readers know up front that the move to Paris with her Italian husband and two kids came after her mother's death from cancer, her own cancer diagnosis two weeks later, followed by removal of a breast and subsequent remission, I think she made a good choice. Her "living in the moment" attitude is a perfect match for this type of writing, and though as a reader I don't know what the future will bring for the author, I was glad to be along for the ride."

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