bendigo

I am browsing "Rome" at the moment, trying to absorb some background and understanding, while counting down to our trip (and trying to stay focused on work!)

denisea

Many thanks lucyp! I will get on that!

Kwoo

I recommend watching Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's movie. I watched it 3 times before we went to Paris & absolutely love it. I also recommend A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.

ahiddenbird

Goodness, so many intriguing suggestions! Thanks so much everyone, this is very helpful. I always get excited at the prospect of a new book, so this is great!

Trotsky: that sounds like a charming story, I'll be looking it up at once!

Denisea: I really do enjoy an author with a good sense of humor, so thanks again

Carolineandthetribe

Hello all - I signed up to Fodor today - just so I could join in this fabulous forum on books!! Love the list. just want to add 3 i have just read - "A Train In Winter" about female French resistance fighters (deeply moving); Me, Myself and Lord Byron (Julietta Jameson) and an oldie but a goodie Almost French - the latter two are by Australian authors. Any recommendations on Borgias, French royals?

trotsky

Another humorous book on Paris- A Year in the Merde. Have forgotten author's name, and there is also a sequel. Very funny accounts of a young English man's year working in a French company & his adventures in finding accommodation, finding love & almost avoiding being in the merde

lucyp

Hi, I recently read "A Train in Winter" as well and it's deeply terrible, but somehow uplifting story continues to haunt me. Only good books/stories can do that. Especially seems fitting when so many horrible things are still happening to innocent people in so many places to this day.

LSky

I picked up The Greater Journey by David McCollough (sorry about spelling) It's shaping up to be a very interesting book about the Americans who went to Paris at the turn of the last century.