She also include the bookshops and she and her mother buy and read books throughout the month that she includes in her pictures. She visits the cemeteries and includes grave stones of Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett to name a couple. She falls in love with Paris milk, foi gras and the many different delicatessen foods. She details the things they buy when shopping. She can't get over all the naked women that are portrayed in Paris. She includes the food they ate almost daily and the sights they saw in the museums.
She draws her apartment with quite a bit of detail, where she ate, the wondrous cafes and restaurants and the museums they visit. She draws a page a day so the book is in a journal format. I mean really, look at my Penguins I dress.īut Lucy's journal is quite amusing and she covers quite a range of things in Paris for the month.
Give me a ruler and a pencil and I will show you a crooked line. You can check out more of her work at I cannot draw but I dearly wish I could. Ultimately it might be hard to relate to if you're not in her age group or have travelled to Paris. If you're wondering why the title is French Milk, it's because the author Lucy Knisley prefers the milk in France compared to milk in US.įrench Milk is a predictable but charming travelogue. It's just mainly sightseeing like any other tourists. It's strange but during these six weeks, there's not much mentioned about the interactions with the locals. Through her thoughts and flashbacks, we also know how she feels about her friends, and more about what kind of person she is. Even though her mom is divorced, her dad still went over to Paris to celebrate her birthday. It's really an interesting look at how close they are. There are funny moments like her mom being an early riser, talking and annoying the hell out of her. While there are few days where she gripes about stuff, the charm of the book is really her relationship with her mother. Through the single panel cartoons and writeup, we're let how she sees the world as a young adult.
Using her brush pen, she records her adventure in the new city, visiting museums, dining, shopping and taking pictures. It seems pretty long for a holiday but hey, it's Paris! They spent 6 weeks together travelling in Paris. French Milk is a sketchbook travelogue on the author Lucy Knisley and her mother.
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