French Milk
Ratings7
Average rating3.7
Just Lovely. Makes me want to travel again, and really get to know a city by living there for an extended time and exploring.
Lucy Knisley tells the story of her five-week trip to Paris with her mother to celebrate her mother turning fifty in this book, French Milk. Knisley visits all the places those of us who love books and art would like to go, and the drawings are charming.
Meh. I was expecting more of a story, some growth or change to happen, or for it to do what the cover said and explore her changing relationship with her mother (I really wanted to read about that!)
In the end it was a diary of places she went, things she ate, books she read, and stuff she bought. Ok, but I just thought there would be more. I'll probably keep it around to refer to when I visit Paris someday, and because I really liked the drawings.
I had much higher hopes, I previously read Relish. French Milk was just a diary of a foodie, only-child, with affluent parents. The drawings were wonderful. I very much disliked the photos, though.