Where is your nonfiction section please.
I used to hold myself to a strict standard of finishing every book I started. It was painful. Why insist on spending precious time finishing something I'm not enjoying just because I made a decision one time to read it? Abandoning feels freeing in its own little way. Time for another look into some of... Continue Reading →
Book review: A Paris Year, by Janice MacLeod (Amazon / Book Depository) Bonjour Bonjour Ça va Ça va Ça va Ça va Bonjour Bonjour. It’s really that easy to have an entire conversation in French. There is no waving hello. This is not the French way. When you wave hello their eyes follow your hand... Continue Reading →
Book review: Alone Time, by Stephanie Rosenbloom Amazon What follows are impressions of four journeys; a love letter to loners, to witches and shamans, to those who cherish their friends, spouses, and partners yet also want alone time to think, create, have an adventure, learn a skill, or solve a problem...find your "thinking path," to... Continue Reading →
Book review: L'Appart, by David Lebovitz Amazon People tell me I'm lucky to live in Paris. But I didn't have any lucky stars (les astres) to thank. I was responsible for making it happen, but I was also to blame for the mess I was in. I adore charming, funny, upbeat American expat-in-Paris chef/blogger David Lebovitz. I discovered... Continue Reading →
Book review: A Paris All Your Own, edited by Eleanor Brown (Amazon / Book Depository) "My time in Paris was like no one else's ever." "In the end, I think Paris kept us married for an extra five years." "I should probably write an article for a women's magazine about this: 'Lose Weight While Eating... Continue Reading →
Book review: Theft by Finding, by David Sedaris Book Depository "In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk, but beyond it. Out in the world where it's so beautiful and complex and painful that sometimes you just need to sit down and write about it." David Sedaris, beloved... Continue Reading →
Book review: City of Light, City of Poison, by Holly Tucker (Amazon / Book Depository) In the late 1600s during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, a network of witches, fortune tellers, apothecaries, priests, charlatans and magic and medicine people operated in the shadows of Paris. They provided desperate customers with the medicinal powders and... Continue Reading →
Book review: Serpentine, by Thomas Thompson Serpentine is a long book but it doesn't actually read like one. The writing is detailed and engrossing, pulling a reader in from the start. The story is about Charles Sobrahj, a French national of Vietnamese and Indian parentage born in Saigon. He had a troubled early start and things... Continue Reading →
Book review: Les Parisiennes, by Anne Sebba (Amazon / Book Depository) Anne Sebba writes in her extensive history of the lives of Parisian women during WWII that it's our task to understand, not to judge. And the women whose lives are covered range across such a broad spectrum, from those with selfless motives and actions... Continue Reading →
Book review: Pancakes in Paris by Craig Carlson (Amazon / Book Depository) photo of Breakfast in America 2, credit: Cedric Roux, www.cedricroux.com Sweet, hilarious memoir of an American who got to do what so many people dream about (or threaten to do if their presidential candidate doesn't win) - move abroad and open a classic American-style... Continue Reading →
Book review: Every Frenchman Has One, by Olivia deHavilland (Amazon / Book Depository) A quick, fun and light collection of anecdotes with lots of vintage charm by the actress I knew best as Melanie from Gone with the Wind, but of course she's legendary for way more than that. I had no idea she was... Continue Reading →
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