mazza57 's review for:

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino

2.0

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this book had lots of unmet potential. Whilst much of what was written the style of writing means i will remember little of it tomorrow. The author writes in the dreariest of fashions and fails to evoke fully the sights and sounds of the street. The most interesting stories were the one about writing to the Pope and the one about the "flying" church. Most of the stories seemed only to emphasise what a "marvellous" person she was almost as if she was totally responsible for the streets atmosphere . In addition my e book was absolutely awful, the ends of chapters were cut off (maybe only a couple of words) or perhaps the first words of next chapters were run into the end of another and then cut into by the photos. Place names were cut into 2 words on several occasions