French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

Today’s post is on French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter. It is 256 pages long and is published by Traveler’s Tales. The cover is a picture of two shoes one nice man’s work shoe and the other a beat-up tennis shoe. There is some foul language, no sex, and no violence in this book. The intended reader is someone who likes funny memoirs. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that will unfold: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese! Nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure.

Review- An amusing memoir about a man living in Paris and all the odd things that happen to him there. Carpenter has the chance to live in Paris, France for a year and he does, also bringing his family with him. Thus begins his adventures in Paris and dealing with the French people, who are so funny in their reactions to him and his very American ways. Carpenter gives the reader insight into living in Paris as an American and all the differences in day-to-day life. It is a fun read with an amusing narrator and I would recommend this memoir.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.