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gertrude314's review
5.0
This book felt just like a diary I would have written on a trip, except it had beautiful illustrations and pictures thrown in! It's a travel diary I aspire to! It also made me want to go back to Paris reeeeeeally bad!
ashley_choo's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely adored this lovely diary-esque comic novel journal book THING, and sped through it in one sitting squashed in a corner of the library.
I want to read more books like this, just truthful anecdotes and observations about art and gorgeous food and people. I LOVE THIS.
I want to read more books like this, just truthful anecdotes and observations about art and gorgeous food and people. I LOVE THIS.
mnstucki's review
3.0
So interesting to read one of Knisley's earlier works because everything else of hers that I've read has been from the last few years. You can really see the difference the past 15(ish) years has made in her maturity! I enjoyed this but wish the handful of swears and the recreations of all of the naked paintings she saw while in Paris had been omitted. I love her style of drawing, though!
guk's review
4.0
Makes me want to go to Paris—which is nothing new! Fun and quirky. Wish the drawings had been in color but I appreciate the pace that they were created. I really want a croissant right now!
Purchased book since it wasn’t available at the library.
Purchased book since it wasn’t available at the library.
jwinchell's review
4.0
I gave this 2.5 stars in 2011 and I can see why- I was in the thick of parenting young children and this is a self-indulgent memoir of Lucy Knisley when she was very young. A trip to Paris for 6 weeks to celebrate her 22 birthday and the end of her college years at SAIC and her mom’s 50th birthday. It’s precisely the kind of thing someone of that age would write when they are introspective and creative and bidding at the travelogue.
sujuv's review against another edition
4.0
The third graphic novel I've read by this artist in as many weeks. Lovely tales of travel and its impact on her life and relationships.
oddmara's review against another edition
1.0
Y'all idk what the hell is up with this reading month but between DNFing 2 books and not managing to read anything above 2 stars (besides that one romance book) is actually making me feel insane.
I wanted to read a graphic novel as a palette cleanser but this was the most boring and irrelevant book I have ever read. At the beginning it says so and I really should have taken its word for it because it disclaims that it's the author's personal diary during the month she was in Paris and that's exactly what it felt like. Reading a random stranger's diary about their boring life whilst visiting paris. There was NOTHING of interest here. NOTHING. Half of it was what she ate for gods sake. And the other half was her NOT wanting to be in Paris. I cannot even bring myself to explain how little I cared. I could have gone on ebay and bought a strangers diary, read it, and gotten a story to the same effect, which is to say, I have absolutely no fucking clue how this got published. I hate being mean in reviews but this one I truly just did not get.
I wanted to read a graphic novel as a palette cleanser but this was the most boring and irrelevant book I have ever read. At the beginning it says so and I really should have taken its word for it because it disclaims that it's the author's personal diary during the month she was in Paris and that's exactly what it felt like. Reading a random stranger's diary about their boring life whilst visiting paris. There was NOTHING of interest here. NOTHING. Half of it was what she ate for gods sake. And the other half was her NOT wanting to be in Paris. I cannot even bring myself to explain how little I cared. I could have gone on ebay and bought a strangers diary, read it, and gotten a story to the same effect, which is to say, I have absolutely no fucking clue how this got published. I hate being mean in reviews but this one I truly just did not get.