Chocolat

Book: Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Pages: 306
Finished: January 2009
Challenges:
** Winter Reading Challenge
** Dewey's Books Challenge
** TBR 2009
** Read and Review

First Sentence: " We came on the wind of the carnival."

Chocolat has been on my shelves for quite a long time and I am very glad I made a point to read it. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

From amazon:
Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.


Not only did I love Vianne, but Harris draws us a whole host of supporting characters equally as important to the story as Vianne, her daughter and the priest.

Promptly after finishing this satisfying little novel, I went out to rent the movie which I had never seen and I loved it too, for what it is....a movie. The changes they made I could see why and thought that the ending was very fitting for a movie, just as the ending in the book was fitting for a book! The movie was a little more whimisical and light hearted, but the book has many more layers to it.