Bumby, but Patrick, borne of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline) and an introduction by a grandson. But instead, the “restored edition” (published in 2009) features a foreword by one of Hemingway’s sons (not Mr. Ted explained his preference is to read a book like this as if it were a time capsule, something that transports the reader to the 1920s and to Paris, to walk with Hemingway in the streets of the City of Light and to be enamored of its charms as he was. The two were both paperback reprints, of course, but one was an older “original” and the other was a new “restored edition.” The biggest problem some of us (maybe just one of us) had was with the version of book that some of us read. It was revealed at the meeting that two different versions of the book were available to us (three if you count the first edition copy that Scott had). Everyone said they would read another of Hemingway’s books indeed, many of us already have. Average Readability score was 3.8 (out of 5) and average Interest score was 3.6. By the end of the conversation, Scott commented that it was one of the best discussions our group had ever had. Mark, attending his first meeting with us, is a Hemingway aficionado and provided interesting context to our understanding of Hemingway’s life and work. But I think that was a reflection of personal taste rather than the quality of the book. It is a lovely collection of vignettes, and it has been hailed by others as a paean to Paris and to that time period.Īs often happens, opinions about this book among the eight of us in attendance ranged across a spectrum. We see a man who worked diligently every day on his writing, then spent his afternoons and evenings with friends or walking around the city.

He writes of his friendships with other literati such as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. He writes of how he struggled for money, but lived quite well on what little he made. A Moveable Feast is some of Hemingway’s earliest writing, a memoir of life in 1920s Paris with his first wife, Hadley, and their son Jack, whom he refers to as Mr.

A movable feast book