Book #2 of 2013: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

I've wanted to read The Paris Wife for quite awhile.

In fact, I bought it as gifts for my mother-in-law and aunt-in-law

And it was a hit with them both

but I never got around to picking up a copy for myself.

This is a really good book.

I enjoyed it from start to finish.

It made me dislike Ernest Hemingway even more than I thought I already did

but regardless - it's interesting because of the time it's set in (the 1920's)

the characters who appear (Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald)

and witnessing this ordinary woman enter into a completely different life and seeing how she navigated her way through.

It's an easy read.

It's captivating.

I would buy it as a gift again.

We have a winner.