“Madame Michel has the elegance of a hedgehog: on the outside, she’s covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary — and terribly elegant.”
At first this book scared me because I thought I was too dumbed down by science textbooks to enjoy its’ more lofty philosophical and artistic qualities.
But I’m about 2/3rds through now and I really, really like it.
I’ve picked this book up in Chapters so many times! I think it’s time I probably read the thing. :)
Love that you had the wherewithal to buy a book for yourself while ordering all our other goodies from Amazon!! Glad that you are enjoying it and the philosophical banter, I actually miss this aspect of my undergrad education sometimes even if at the time I hated it.
I own this book…. I shall have to hunt it down and begin reading!!