Hemingway: A Moveable Feast (of book covers)

I've been collecting old copies of Paris-themed books.I'm having SO MUCH FUN reading these old paper treasures. I particularly love reading what others before me have underlined. Some of these underlined passages are poignant and lovely. Others are a mystery. Why did the reader underline THAT? You start to judge the anonymous underliners as either people with great taste whom you could befriend, or people who are weirdos. There is no in between.In gathering these old treasures, I've come across a slew of different versions of A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Feast your eyes on this... I had no idea there were so many. AND I only investigated the French and English versions. Incroyable.   Shakespeare & Company, one of the English bookstores in Paris, sells more copies of A Moveable Feast than any other title. However, I like to zip around the corner to the Canadian bookshop, The Abbey Bookshop on 29 rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Paris. The reason for this is simple: It has MANY COPIES of MANY BOOKS and if they don't have it, they'll order it for you. Many, many books.In other news, my 100th Paris Letter... Cue the trumpets!This letter began with a collage including some of those lovely old papers from those ratty (but lovely) books.Here I am painting at a café, creating my own moveable (painting) feast.

Janice MacLeod

Janice MacLeod is a course creator who helps people write books and create online businesses out of their art. She is a New York Times best seller, and her book Paris Letters, is a memoir about how she became an artist in Paris selling illustrated letters. She has a vibrant Etsy shop and was one of the pioneering entrepreneurs featured on Etsy's Quit Your Day Job newsletter. She has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, Canadian Living, Psychologies Today, Elle, Huff Post, and CBC.

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