Status Updates From A Waiter in Paris: Adventur...

Seriously good, although i’m struggling with the character names, not very defining people but amazing.

Re-reading!

3.5

By no means a shiny, warming depiction, but Edward Chisholm has a magnificent way with words.

Picked this back up where I left off while I was in Paris (a little too close to home to read about grotty restaurants and dodgy streets that I visited myself!). Amazing how suddenly, instead of repulsing me a bit, it conjures up a sort of longing, even in the less-than-shining depictions, I still see the city I fell in love with. Not perfect, but perfectly imperfect.

Good

Wasn’t that impressed with this at first but it has turned to be quite entertaining. One passage made me laugh out loud this morning- a rare and exciting event

V good for the commute this one

Great, I love the writing.

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70

Ok wasn’t into this before, but I’ve picked it back up and am flying through it

I love this book already.

“Because you're in it, you're in the film. You're not watching, you've got a walk-on, speaking part. And everything feels possible. Besides, when you’re in Paris you couldn't care less about anywhere else. Your world shrinks; it's the centre of the universe. There is nowhere else.”

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Drømmer meg bort til Paris✨

I loved this book as someone who’s lived in France and worked in a restaurant- just not at the same time. It read like I was watching a movie.

It’s no down and put in Paris and London but it is amazing that 100 years on from Orwell he’s essentially living the same life.

"People say Paris smells of piss, but in the morning it smells of croissants."

Utešno xD

Almost finished listening to this. It would be a brilliant radio play!!

so far it’s only confirmed my impression of Paris as a grimy city and put me off eating out anywhere in that city where you can’t see the kitchen.

I won’t lie. It’s hard to go from Maxton Hall to a struggling lit student waiter. But I’m making it work.

What’s this?! A return to non-fiction?!?! After all the romantasy, dark academia and eventually saucy period dramas the time has come to once more broaden my horizons and vocabulary.

Also I’m watching trash TV so really there should be a balance somewhere.

‘This Parisian breakfast, from me, the English waiter who took the order, to the Tamil Tiger who made the coffee and pressed the orange juice and the West African expelled from the UK who heated the factory made croissants…’ a serve actually

Bro can fucking write

the introduction is already soo good im so emotional

Really hating it so far. it's written like someone from saltburn got a part-time summer job

Really love it at this stage

DNF

this man is Emily