Good old snow days! I was able to download this book on my Kindle and read it while looking at the snow out my front window. My hot cup of tea and blanket kept me cozy as I read.
Book Title: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Topic: Friendship, Love
Thoughts: Reading this novel made me want to go back to visit Paris again. I am like Anna, fearful to explore Paris on my own, but if I go back again, I will be more willing to explore more of the city.
Anna’s dad, a writer who reminds me of like Nicholas Sparks, decides to send her to a Paris boarding school for only American teenagers for her last year of high school. Anna is upset about it until she sets eyes upon Etienee St. Clair, and it is love at first sight. The problem is St. Clair has an older girlfriend he is not willing to break up with.
Neither Anna nor St. Clair want to be alone, but they cannot get the romance part of their friendship to work out because of miscommunication and secrets. Even Anna’s best friend, Bridgette, keeps secrets from her, and they have to work at repairing their relationship. When Anna encounters problems with the school bully instead of relying on her friends for help, she pulls away from them and it takes Rashmi to remind her that “all friends fight” to realize she does need her friends who won’t believe everything they hear about her.
I guess Perkins even put a little of herself in the novel as St. Clair's mother who "painted every room of her flat a different color of the rainbow."
Perkins has this Paris boarding school have believable, flawed, and realistic characters. No one is perfect, even though Amanda believes she is—and she gets what’s coming to her (Yeah!), which makes this novel a good read. Paris is supposed to be the most romantic place to be kissed by the one you love.
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