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Chargement... Secrets of Paris: A Novel (édition 2011)par Luanne Rice (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. First of all, let me say that I'm a great fan of the novels of Luanne Rice. I adore her warm characters, with their flaws, their artistry, and their search for love. This particular novel felt like it was written by someone else. But then I looked at the information page and found it was a reissue of a novel from 1991. The book takes place in Paris, but the descriptions just left one believing their are lots of famous places, everyone eats seafood all the time and all the cliches of the French are true. The characters felt like they were made of plastic, without heart and life, though difficulties and tragedies were assigned to them. The story, itself, is of a couple who go to Paris for a year following a family tragedy back in New York. The husband is working on a project at the Louvre. The wife makes friends with a fellow American who is married to a rich French jeweler. And their is a Filipino housemaid who has dreams to moving to the U.S. to open a fish market. It was dull and it took me a long time to read it because I really didn't care what happened to the characters. ( )1 year in Paris - okay novel From a rose garden in the Bois de Boulogne to the ruby-and-diamond-filled showrooms of the d'Origny Bijoutiers to an elaborate recreation of an 18th-century masked ball, Secrets of Paris takes the reader into a seductive world of love, friendship, and passions rekindled. For Americans Lydie McBride and her husband Michael, life will never be the same. Secrets of Paris by Luanne Rice Have read the authors other works and have loved them all. Seductive tale of the city and what it holds for everyone if you look for it. Lydie and Michael work and live in Paris, married for 8 years.. She sets up photo shots and her husband is an architect working on the Louvre. Her father had killed himself and his lover. She used to race his cars as he fixed them for others as a mechanic. She meets Patrice-an American in the city and they speak of her Philippine maid who she wants to immigrate to the US. Liked learning about so much of the city and the surroundings. Micheal's eye wanders and he compares his new love interest to his wife... I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). Secrets of Paris by Luanne Rice This is a story about Lydie who has moved to Paris with her husband. He's in the architecture business and she sets up shoots for photographing. She was reluctant to come to Paris as her father and mistress had died in a car crash a year ago and she wanted to console her mother. She did meet an American woman at a cafe one day and they became friends. Patrice's husband is into selling jewelry and he asks for Lydie's help in a ball at a mansion. She scurries the countryside for just the right props. Her husband, Michael in the meantime has taken up with Anne in an affair. Patrice's mother has arrived from US to stay a week and she's trying on her nerves. Michael has told her that he no longer loves her and does not think she loves him. He has fallen in love with another woman. Lydie is not sure if she loves him or not. She tries to focus on other things-to help the maid Kelly get to the US. Maybe now Lydie will leave Paris after the ball, with Kelly. Lots of choices and decisions. I felt not connected to this book, probably just the foreign location. Story line was great and few characters as others came in and out of the picture, very easy to follow the story. A minha estreia com esta autora! Quanto a este livro estou um pouco sem saber o que dizer, por um lado amei cada página, por outro apetece bater numa das personagens. E talvez seja esta a razão de ter gostado tanto deste livro. Não há nada melhor que um livro que nos consiga preencher e fazer transbordar os nossos sentimentos e foi mesmo isso que se passou durante esta leitura. Foi um pouco mais lenta que o normal, mas não estar a gostar, mas sim porque não queria que nenhum pormenor me escapasse. Devo dizer que é uma história intensa sobre o poder do amor e da amizade, que nos faz pensar até onde conseguimos amar alguém. Ao inicio temos Lydie que viu avida da sua família ser arrastada para a desgraça, com o assassínio da amante do seu pai e suicídio do mesmo, este drama tão real para algumas pessoas faz com que a personagem Lydie se refugie em si mesma, não deixando transparecer os seus sentimentos para o mundo que a rodeia, acto esse que começa a prejudicar o seu casamento com Michael. É então que Michael arranja trabalho em França, e pensando que vai melhorar a situação aceita de imediato, mas infelizmente nem tudo acontece como esperamos. Michael vê o seu casamento cada vez mais destruído e os seus sentimentos por Lydie começam a ser questionados, é então que aparece Anne Dumas, por quem se encanta…é aqui que me apetece “matar” esta personagem, pois tal como na vida real Michael não tenta lutar contra aquela atracção, muito pelo contrário chega a estar deitado ao lado da mulher e a fantasiar com Anne. Para ser sincera, dificilmente encontrei uma personagem tão idiota e tão real como Michael, os sentimentos por ele durante todo o livro foram de confusão e acho que ele se tornou aquela personagem que todos adoramos odiar…confusos? Bem, leiam o livro e depois contem-me se sentiram o mesmo. É durante esta confusão que Lydie conhece Patrice, outra americana, que mora em Paris e que é casada com o dono de uma famosa joalharia, esta ajudará Lydie a passar por toda esta fase difícil da sua vida e aos poucos iram construir uma solida amizade que durará para o resto das suas vidas. Mas não é tudo, para completar o triangulo de amizades, temos também Kelly, a empregada filipina de Patrice, que tem como sonho emigrar para os Estados Unidos…juntas, iram atravessar duras provas para conseguirem atingir os seus objectivos. Como disse ao início, este foi o primeiro livro que li desta autora e devo dizer que fiquei bastante curiosa em relação aos outros. É um bom livro, com uma história leve e apesar do assunto não ser novidade, leva nos a viajar até Paris e a perder-mo nos de amor pela cidade e pelo Louvre. Luanne Rice, estás aprovada! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Lydie McBride has always embraced life to the fullest. But when an unthinkable tragedy strikes her family, everything she believes in is shattered. Her architect husband, Michael, watches the passion disappear from Lydie's eyes and from their marriage, and hopes that an assignment to Paris will help them reclaim a love that once seemed unassailable. But the City of Lights holds secrets and seductions for them both. As Michael pursues his design project at the Louvre--and falls into the orbit of a mysterious, alluring Frenchwoman--Lydie finds new inspiration for her work as a photo and art stylist and begins a friendship with two dramatically different women that will enable her to find a new life. Will there be a place for the man with whom she always wanted to share that life . . . if she can find him again? .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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