A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

genre: essays, nonfiction

In this series of essays, Hemingway takes us to the Paris of his early years, years of poverty and writing for scraps, of big dreams and mornings in the cafe, of fellow writers and poets and a life that shines so bright after the horror of war. Some of these are more interesting than others but all are written with a unique style. He often seems like a real jerk in his interactions with the more minor characters in his life and he openly discusses the circumstances that led to him having a devastating affair that broke his marriage. So I’m not loving him as a person but my favorite thing about this book, beyond the intimate portrait of Parisian cafe life, is the idea of a “moveable feast” - those bountiful memories that fill us for the rest of our lives, wherever that life takes us.