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weekend read: The Paris Wife

This book singlehandedly made me want to have another baby so I could name her Hadley.

Which my husband has already nixed, so I got lucky that my friend, Chelsea, is having a girl and she’s naming her Hadley. Gah, I just love that name.

The Paris Wifeby Paula McLain is the fictionalized version of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley’s, account of their time together. As a reader, you know early on that it will end. And I guess I could have done a quick internet search to find out more, but I wanted the book to tell me the story. I like the story so much.

And even as things start to go bad for Hadley and Ernest, the reader is still holding on to a little hope that it can be salvaged. Even when you know McLain has to stay true to the end. I found the mix of research and poetic license to be perfect and this book seriously piqued my interest in Hadley and her Ernest.

In the end, when it goes really wrong and later, when Hadley is looking back on her life, there is profound sadness, but such hope at the same time. And while this book is told from the wife’s point of view, Ernest is the center of the storm and it made me all the more curious about that man and his writings. So I’ll probably be picking those up soon.

Read The Paris WifeParis in the 20’s and one of the greatest American writers of all time. And, of course, love. The part that holds it all together. Well, mostly.

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  1. Julie S. says

    October 4, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    I just started this the other night, and noticed the name Kenley as well. I had NO IDEA!

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