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Marilyn Campiz has been a lifelong memoirist, poetess, and writer. A world traveler, former expatriate teacher presently in back in the USA. She is an active supporter of the arts, collaborating and writing about projects all over the world.
These are the thoughts the writer began with that started her on her journey,
"What if you lived like you were dying? What would you change? I think that was my turning point. I didn't want to wait for someone to tell me how much time I had left. I don't know how much time I do have, but I do know I don't have forever. I don't have time to please others. I don't have time to play games. I didn't have time to be afraid to live. None of us do. I cannot care whether someone approves or not. So I write what I see and experience along the way, in my own way. To experience life, every drop of it. I want to challenge myself to got beyond established perceptions. Sometimes that means to crash long held personal mythologies I encounter along the way.
I have learned how to let the world show me more and realized I knew so little about life. I had to be willing to touch and to be touched by the love of others; not being afraid to grow.
With flaws and all, I can only be who I am, reinvention is not required."
Reviewed by Michelle Robertson for Readers' Favorite
Live the story of Marilyn Campiz, a retired 20-year United States Air Force Staff and writer as she tells it in a first hand documented erotic and sensual love quest of entries she pursued in Paris. Trying to get away from the stereotypical way most men and some women think a woman or family should be like - husband, wife, home, family, love, and sex - she begins to express and live a different approach to life. As she searches Paris for the true meaning of herself as a woman, her soul, her lifestyle, love, and men, she meets five men in Paris who seem to allow her to gain the knowledge she seeks, and also gain some knowledge of their own. Through her journey, she begins to correspond with a friend over the course of many months. This is far from the ordinary pen-pal letter however; it seems as if she has fallen in love with her correspondent. Or is it lust? What is it that she actually desires? Does she want love, friendship, or both? Will life allow it all to be so?
The Paris Diaries written by Marilyn Campiz is a remarkable memoir which introduces readers to the erotic, sensual, exquisite, extraordinary, and emotional journey the author takes while soul searching in Paris. The text itself is written very clearly and displayed well throughout the pages of the book. Comprehensibility is great, although there are some very graphic parts within that should be not be read by a younger reading audience due to highly provocative language and scenes. This book is not for easily offended readers, or those close-minded to sexual content. A reader who enjoys a bit of erotica in a romance novel filled with a very independent, strong-willed woman's viewpoints will love this book and I highly recommend it to them.
