Was there a particular scene you found especially moving in The Paris Hours or a scene that stayed with you after you had finished the book? If so, why do you suppose that scene resonated so deeply with you?"
Created: 05/19/20
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Was there a particular scene you found especially moving in The Paris Hours or a scene that stayed with you after you had finished the book? If so, why do you suppose that scene resonated so deeply with you?"
Join Date: 06/01/11
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I loved the ending. So many good books don't end as much as they just stop. This ending was very clear - the reader knows what happens but the details are left to the reader's imagination. I replayed that final scene in my head several times after completing the story. It truly stayed with me.
Join Date: 04/03/19
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The scene when a family is changed by one person's callousness, the pain that never goes away, has haunted me since I closed the cover of the book. Life is precious.
Join Date: 06/19/12
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The last scene in the book offered so many possibilities. Will Jean-Paul simply hand over the notebook and walk away? Will Camille say something that gives her secret away -- and to precisely the "wrong" (which is to say "right") person? So many ways this could go. It's a fabulous end-moment.
Join Date: 05/23/20
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It is hard to pick a favorite! A few that stuck with me include: the puppet show in the park, the nightclub scene, the first time Camille meets Monsieur Proust, and Jean-Paul's battlefield story.
Join Date: 07/16/14
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OMG-finally realizing that Hector was more than a horse; Jean-Paul's desperate digging in the rubble; Sauren's cheese eating in his apartment with the little girl; Ravel's piano playing trying to find the next movement; Camille's arrival in Paris as a new wife far from home and family; Camille's daughter at the cemetery finally understanding why her Mom goes there; Maurice driving the ambulance...
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The scene where Jean-Paul realizes Marie is not Elodie. The scene where Souren burns his hand. Proust in his bed, writing. And yes, the last scene, which made me nearly laugh out loud from joy.
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So many moving scenes in this book. Scenes that burned into my my brain so that throughout I stopped reading and closed the book for a few moments to just breathe. Souren, all of Souren's story just made me ache, he deserved so much more. Jean-Paul and his loss. The ending. How can that possibly work out right? What will happen and how can it happen? How would it actually resolve? This book is composed of brain burning, gasp inducing scenes that will stay will you forever.
Join Date: 04/15/19
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All four characters' stories have stayed with me. The part from the puppet show in Luxembourg Gardens was vivid. Maybe because I have actually been there and had a picnic there myself made that stand out so much. But I would have to agree with Mary Louise, the scene when Jean-Paul realizes that Marie is not Elodie.
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