The Library book clubs are reading A Moveable Feast this year. We picked it because last year we read The Paris Wife, which is a book of historical fiction about Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley and their life together.
A Moveable Feast, is a memoir written by Ernest Hemingway at the end of his life and it covers his life in Paris while he was married to Hadley. Hemingway died in 1961 and the book was published posthumously in 1964. The restored edition was published in 2009 and is supposed to be closer to how Hemingway intended the book to be published.
The book consists of very short chapters that cover different people and events during his life in Paris in the 1920's. His friends included Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The chapters about F. Scott Fitzgerald are laugh-out-loud funny.
I found the book easy to read, probably because of the short chapters, though sometimes I had to reread some of the sentences several times to figure out what Mr. Hemingway was trying to say. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed it as much if I hadn't read The Paris Wife last year, but they definitely complement each other.
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