In the Merde for Love

I'm reading a book Julia might enjoy, In the Merde for Love, which is a light novel by an Englishman living in France. I picked it up off the new books shelf at the library with Douglas hanging over me so I had approximately 15 seconds to pick a book, but it turned out not to be a bad one. It's sort of entertaining to read the English view of the French. At one point in the part I was reading last night he was visiting a seaside town called Ars. You can imagine what fun the English have with a name like that. He comments, "Everyone was buying their newspapers at a shop called the Ars Presse, which sounded to me like an illegal wrestling move."