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The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
After reading this book, I realized, that as a self-termed avid reader, I have never read any Hemingway! [b:The Paris Wife|8683812|The Paris Wife|Paula McLain|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320545874s/8683812.jpg|13556031] brought great interest to me to find out what I could about Ernest Hemingway, what he wrote & helped take me back to the 1920's to 'meet' him as a struggling/starving artist. The Hadley Hemingway Ms. McLain created was stunning, smart, sensitive, and lost. Lost in the big bustling world of international travel and lost in love when others mixed lust with it. She gave her characters life; even little "Bumby" who I would take right home with me in an instant! I had a hard time in the middle of the book when Hadley knew that her marriage was not as pure as the driven snow any longer. As narrator, she threw some curve balls telling the reader that the things to come would not be sweet or sunshine & it put a damper on the next several chapters until the book evened out again & I was able to just read vs waiting for the bottom to drop out of Hadley's marriage. I really liked the book. A solid 4 stars.