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title: "L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home Hardcover – November 7, 2017"
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# L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home Hardcover – November 7, 2017

**Brand:** david lebovitz
**Price:** € 59.99
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- **What is this?** L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home Hardcover – November 7, 2017 by david lebovitz
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fabulous French and a great read!!
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024*

David Lebovitz has a delightful writers voice with which he describes challenges and triumphs in moving to France. Delicious recipes and insights. Good fun and quite a lot of humanity.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Been there! Done much of that!
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2021*

As a recent fan of Lebovitz's cookbooks, I was excited to find he's a good storyteller, too. His L'Appart is a story of dealing with a construction business whose idea of customer service is non-existent, a story of being forced to learn a new vocabulary outside the comfort of his French chef-ulary, and learning how to work (and win) in a culture that is contrary to much of what he has ever learned in the business world. And his story remains funny throughout.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Delightful, charming, and amusing account of one disastre after another!
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017*

I love David Lebovitz's writing, faithfully reading his blog and having enjoyed "My Paris Kitchen."  "L'Appart" is as charming as I expected, as the author struggles with French bureaucracy, a lying real-estate agent, and a crazy seller in order to buy the apartment of his dreams, then encounters even more disasters when his contractor brings in a small army of plumbers, electricians in order to make it livable: melting wires, buckled floors, tilting chairs, twisted windows, and more.  I found myself laughing out loud more than once, usually when he writes about his tussles with French language and the hilarious double entendres that result when using the wrong words for appliances and hardware.  There are 24 recipes, mostly for desserts, with headnotes that amusingly weave the choice of recipe into his apartment saga.  My only criticism is that there are no photos, and one is longing for photos!  He writes that he took a lot of pictures during the construction, but where are they?  The only real illustration is a line drawing at the end with no notations, perhaps of the finished kitchen?  Moreover, each of the 38 chapters has a line drawing of a tool -- however, instead of coming up with 38 clever drawings to match the chapter, only 4 tools are rotated over and over:  a screwdriver, saw, caulking gun, and paintbrush.  I'm sure that Lebovitz would have loved to provide photos--his blog is chock full of them--so I'm very disappointed that the publisher did not provide them.  I would have liked to nick half a star for the lack of photos; however, I found everything else about the book to be absolutely a delightful read, so 5 stars.

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