Greg S’s Reviews > The Paris Bookseller > Status Update

You’d think Joyce would hate Tennyson, the poet laureate, with all of Tennyson’s adherence to orthodoxy. Maybe the author of this book just wanted to put in that Tennyson poem.

just agree on a new contract. it’s not hard, people.

It might have been fun to count how many compliments Sylvia got in this book. — “Ernest had added, “And it’s because you published it first…”

Err, what?

I assume that the people who can’t afford the beach can’t afford her store either? — “…her shop that was empty of customers because everyone had gone to the seaside…”

Wouldn’t it be sad if Sylvia’s dad was a decent person in real life, instead of the monster depicted here?

gross. — “You are keeping the real writers afloat.”

Sylvia is beginning to conflate Joyce’s book with herself. She took a compliment to the book (written by Joyce) to be a compliment on herself.

Sprinkling a few french words every now and then seems shallow and pointless to me. — “…arranged like flowers; many cheeses and breads and saucissons and salads, and the pièce…”

I noticed that Adrienne goes to Shakespeare and Co., but Sylvia doesn’t go to La Maison…— “…Adrienne propped her up every day. What was Shakespeare without La Maison? A half dream, a twin missing its sister.”