Paris Letters is Janice MacLeod’s third book, her first memoir about her adventures in Paris, published in 2014. A Paris Year came out in 2017. In 2021, she published a collection of Paris Letters. The subtitle gives away the plot: “One woman’s journey from the fast lane to a slow stroll in Paris.” Unhappy with her job in copywriting, which had been but was no longer her dream job, she decides to buy herself time. She'd first thought it would be a sabbatical of sorts, not realizing there would be a life for her in Paris. Readers can walk with her, enjoying the scenery and the friends she makes as she struggles with improving her French. In addition, she discovers that illustrated letters of the scenes can be a moneymaker, and thus her career as an artist blossoms. The book is a charming, light read; unfortunately, the Paris letters in the book are in black-and-white, not color.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
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