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Customer Reviews:Average Customer Rating: A Wonderful Way to Attend Le Cordon Bleu Vicariously I am at a loss to understand the negative reviews which some people submitted for this book. I felt that it was fascinating and very well-written. The school, the other students, the chefs, and her relationship were sharply evoked and delineated; I did not feel that there was excessive attention given to any specific thread, and the information she included about herself and her future husband helped to ground the book and give it some depth. Occasionally books of this genre can seem one-dimensional because you don't have sufficient back-story to see the individual in his or her context. Flinn came across as a real person, quirky and very likeable. It's an excellent book for a foodie, a francophile, or simply someone who likes reading about other people's adventures through life. horrible, plain and simple This book was so bad I almost had to put it down and quit it while reading. I stuck with it (mainly because it is a short and easy read), but felt pretty disappointed at the end. The book does cover a lot of the insider's view of French cooking, Le Cordon Bleu, etc., but it is so poorly written. Think Lifetime movie about a girl who goes to cooking school. The tone felt so vapid and was such an obnoxious pain to read, I felt like the cover might has well been hot pink and have shoes on the front (and if that type of book is your cup of tea, then you might like this one). I really wanted to like this book, but the writing was so juvenile and felt more like a college student's blog that I really cannot recommend this to anyone. A pleasant diversion This is a charming and pleasant book. Kathleen Flinn does a marvelous job of evoking Paris in all its historical and 21st-century glory and uniqueness, and of evoking the wonderfully French speech of her chef professors at the Le Cordon Blue cooking school in Paris. It's easy to "feel yourself there" inside the culinary classrooms, experiencing all the excitement, fear, and curious wonderment that Kathleen, and all of the students, do. We also get to experience Paris through her various living quarters and through outings with visiting friends and fellow students. She also marvelously describes and evokes day-to-day life in Paris, especially for someone with only a modest, yet steadily improving, command of the French language. The Sharper the Your Knife the Less You Cry Four of us read this book over the holidays and really enjoy her story! She really had some aweful things to get through. Good heart felt book. We were cheering for her all the way through. A story almost too good to be true A software executive gets laid off, fulfills her life dream of attending Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and finds true love - all in about a year. And gets a book deal? That's a lot of life-changing events in a short time. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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