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  • Waking Up in Paris

  • Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light
  • By: Sonia Choquette
  • Narrated by: Sonia Choquette
  • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Waking Up in Paris

By: Sonia Choquette
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Publisher's Summary

“As if waking up from a nightmare, I thought, If I am going to be traumatized, I might as well be traumatized in Paris, right?

Devastated by the unexpected end of her decades-long marriage, renowned spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette undertook an equally unexpected move and relocated to Paris, the scene of many happy memories from her life as a student and young mother. Arriving in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, she found a Paris as traumatized by this unforeseen event as she had been by her divorce. Together, over the following years, she and the city she loves began a journey of healing that involved deep soul searching and acceptance of new, sometimes uncomfortable reality.

In this follow-up to Walking Home, Sonia shares her intimate thoughts and fears as well as the unique challenges of setting up a new life in a foreign land. From moving into a freezing, malodorous apartment to a more pleasant - yet haunted - flat across the Seine to her current light-filled home, Sonia shares how these changes parallel her inner transformation. Along the way, Sonia regales listeners with vivid stories of her unfortunate encounters with French hairdressers and beauticians, her adventures in French fashion, and her search for the perfect neighborhood café. Her companion throughout is the city of Paris - a character unto itself - which never ceases to fill her with wonder, surprise, and delight and provides her with the spiritual strength to succeed in establishing her new life.

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Entertaining & Inspiring

Loved Sonia's honesty in her "waking up" process.!
Easy listening whilst making you think about your own need and ability to recreate an authentic YOU.

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5 stars and lots of laughs

loved it, laughed a lot, the story was fabulous. Sonia youve made a fan of me

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Lovely book

This is a light and personable read, a peak into Paris that reads like a diary of moving there. Funny heartwarming and over dramatic at times. It’s a pleasant read

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Drawn Out

Firstly, Sonia has opened my eyes to how the Parisians treat overseas visitors so based on this, I will never consider living there so, thank you.

In regard to the story; While I understand how traumatic a divorce can be and why Paris looked appealing to a broken heart and lost soul, I found the whole storyline to be one big whinge of the decisions that were made.

Was it really necessary to have every response of a simple discussion written into the story? (She said, then I said, then she said...) The book could've been 30% shorter without losing any character personality.

A question that I was asking myself after the first 3 months of living in Paris was, isn't Sonia intuitive with 2 decades of experience so why did she not use her 'gut' feelings on any of those decisions?

I believe if this was Sonia's first book, it would not have been a success and it certainly would not have rated as high as the reviews displayed. It was simply riding on the coat tails of her previous works and her 'statut de celebrite'.

A little disappointing to say the least.

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Harsh Critique !

I found this book exceptionally tedious and shallow in its content. The author delivers an account of her post marriage move from America to Paris to live. However the flavour is one of adolescent self absorption. Although set in Paris it reeks of American sensibility. I forced myself to finish it but wouldn't recommend it to any one.

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