Juliette has always loved books ~ especially how they smell ~ the scents that lingered with them long after they were put down. She even wondered about the type of people who would read them. During her daily commute on the Metro, she covertly watched her fellow passengers, as a way to amuse & distract herself. By what they were reading & how they behaved, she would make some presumptions about the kind of people they were & other details about their lives.
Although she has a decent life, she’s become bored with the routine. When she decides to change things up by taking the scenic route home, she gets pulled into an assignment that could change her life forever. The more she makes a home in this new world, the more she examines her own life choices.
Juliette is a poignant character, who seeks the passion in life we all look for at times. In this story, she inspires us to step outside our own lives, reminds us to take the time to look at the world around us, & nudges us towards the chances that come our way…so we can ultimately learn where we truly belong. I encourage you to become a 'passeur' in life ~ leave a book any place it will be found, so perhaps a soul out there, searching for something, might pick it up & find it.
“He was talking about books as if they were alive - old friends, powerful adversaries at times, insolent teenagers & elderly ladies sitting by the fire. In our bookcases? Grumpy wise men & mistresses, uncontrollable passions, future killers, thin paper boys offering their hands to fragile damsels whose beauty grew thin with every description. Some books were wild horses that took you with them in a mad galloping while you were hanging, breathless. Others were like boats sailing softly on a lake lit by the moonlight, & some were prisons.” ~ Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
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It's a fun, quick read. Worthy of recommendation to anyone else who's also curious.. It was her first book to be translated into English & published around the world.
My car always has books in it, just in case I go off the beaten path, but currently I leave them at the door of the dollar store I frequent. They're almost always gone before I leave. I sometimes wonder what journey these books are on & who they're currently inspiring. Take pleasure in the path..
Créer, c'est vivre deux fois. ~ To create is to live twice.
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