c100's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.0
littlelilacsdownthesea's review
3.0
French Milk is a very realistic account of traveling. Many writers and animators like to make their log very out of this world perfect, when in fact, in every trip there are good moments and bad. To put it simply, Lucy Knisely's French Milk is brutally honest, allowing her self to express such attributes.
I can't say much about it other than that because this book is one those books that you can't say you liked it but you can't say that you hated it with all of your might. The book was often slow and while I know that is what it comes to when writing a travelogue, the book could have used a bit more color.
I can't say much about it other than that because this book is one those books that you can't say you liked it but you can't say that you hated it with all of your might. The book was often slow and while I know that is what it comes to when writing a travelogue, the book could have used a bit more color.
readily_reads's review
2.5
Having read her later works first this one felt underwhelming. It’s less reflective but she was 21 and starting out so it’s not bad but it is essentially a blow by blow of her trip to Paris.
kittypaws9's review
1.0
I recently read “French Milk," a travel journal/sketch book about a trip to Paris.
“French Milk” was a big letdown. I expect something more like Craig Thompson’s “Carnet de Voyage.” Instead, it was just a couple of sketches and photos with a complete run down of everything she ate and bought while she was in Paris. There really wasn’t a plot.
I wouldn’t recommend it.
“French Milk” was a big letdown. I expect something more like Craig Thompson’s “Carnet de Voyage.” Instead, it was just a couple of sketches and photos with a complete run down of everything she ate and bought while she was in Paris. There really wasn’t a plot.
I wouldn’t recommend it.
starryeved's review
3.0
Feels like the personal journal of a student who went on a foreign exchange trip/study abroad program in a manner both distant and intimately inviting. Unfortunately, in spite of the many French hotspots and foods listed, there was little substantive that it promised.
ms_jennyd's review
2.0
Meh. I was expecting more of a story, some growth or change to happen, or for it to do what the cover said and explore her changing relationship with her mother (I really wanted to read about that!)
In the end it was a diary of places she went, things she ate, books she read, and stuff she bought. Ok, but I just thought there would be more. I'll probably keep it around to refer to when I visit Paris someday, and because I really liked the drawings.
In the end it was a diary of places she went, things she ate, books she read, and stuff she bought. Ok, but I just thought there would be more. I'll probably keep it around to refer to when I visit Paris someday, and because I really liked the drawings.
literatehedgehog's review
1.0
Eating, shopping, self-indulgent moping. This trip to Paris should have been reflected on after years of experience and self-growth, not catalogued immediately with youthful narcissism.
marmoset737's review
2.0
This gets a star for the drawings-which were kind of cute-and the overall idea-which is actually sort of an interesting approach to a travelogue-but this was mainly the sort of travel memoir that I just can't stand and I really don't understand why this was so highly reviewed by YA librarians. I found Lucy's travel diary to be duller than most - mainly she just whined about missing her boyfriend and talked about what she ate for dinner. She lived in Paris for six weeks for goodness sake! She couldn't think of anything more interesting to write about?