teenybooks

Archive for April 2008

Shakespeare and Company

If you’re ever in Paris and happen to be as big of a fan of books as I am, visit the original Shakespeare and Company, opened by George Whitman:
The Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
When Frances Steloff was president of the […]

Hopelessly Rafael: A Brief Parisian Anecdote

It was on my third day of my Paris trip, after my brief day trip to Versailles, that I met Rafael. I had not, up until that point, actively made any effort to seek company. I would even go so far as to say that I had been avoiding interacting too much with anyone from […]

Career Choice: Fail

For the record, writers get no love. And if you’re thinking maybe I’ll take up a career in writing, don’t move to france.
France of all places. Home to the historically intellectually astute. Philosophers. Poets. Novelists.
Do you know what the french are interested in?
Photographers.
If photographers and writers were in a battle for drumming up career interest […]

My One Purchase

I am extremely pleased with it.

The Eiffel at Night* (to expand a bit on bk’s post)

*He was so excited about all the beautiful ladies, I thought I’d give a more in depth and marica-esque account of the night.Sunday night was my last night in Paris. It rained all day but the sky was still bright and things took on this different light that I’m sure only happens in Paris. […]

Blazey and Sonya in Paris

Two or three days ago, over a glass of wine while we lounged around the apartment (maybe there wasn’t wine but it seems fitting) bk turned to me with a devilish smile and said ‘do you think think the courtyard by the big building is a good place to meet someone?’*

I looked up from my […]

Bk Takes Me Shopping.

One of the highlights of having bk join me for my Paris adventures (convincing him didn’t take much arm twisting) was all the cool kid stores we’d go to along the way. We’ve sort of got this perfect mixture of new and old going on. Yesterday I took him on my walking tour of Montmartre […]

The Eiffel Tower, the dreamer and me.

The couples made it more beautiful. 

I know its a cliche, but lest we forget, I am a girl and I do have a great big heart.  Seeing these two couples standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, one young, one older about twenty feet apart from one another standing  on the great big lawn/garden. They […]

Notre Dame

I don’t want to lose track of my days…
I think its easier with the time spent talking verbally about how things go and how life seems and the nature of things (because Paris breeds that or I breed that or a mixture of the two).

Being alone its so much easier to tell your verbal story […]

Last Nights Dinner (And 3 bottles of Wine later…)

photo courtesy of jaybeekay
Last night, being the daring traveller that I am, I decided to try steak tartare. I think that because of the name, I expected raw steak, raw steak which seemed not so bad in the scheme of things, when considering how much I eat steak rare to the point that its only […]

← Before After →