A Moveable Feast-Ernest Hemingway

A memoir of Ernest Hemingway's life with his first wife, in Paris in the 1920s, as a struggling young writer. It sounds like a wonderful life spent writing in cafes, drinking wines and coffees, enjoying good food, and mingling with other writer friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald (who I think was cast in a relatively bad light, especially when they went on a road trip together)- a sweet, romantic way of life. In this memoir, he included the names of cafes and restaurants he had visited, and according to what I found on the internet, some of these places still exist. Wonderful, if you are living in Paris!

The opening quote of the book:"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

A quote from the book read to Meg Ryan by Nicholas Cage in the "City of Angels" movie: "As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
You can almost taste the lure of the oysters from his description... It is actually through the movie that I borrowed this book. I had read some of Hemingway's past works like For Whom the Bells Toll, Snows of Kilimanjaro, etc., but honestly, they can get a bit dry and lengthy. But the Moveable Feast is a fairly good read, especially if you are a food/cafe/Paris lover.