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Book Review: The Bonjour Effect by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 10, 2019 | LEARN: Everything Else

Freelance journalists Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau moved with their daughters to Paris for a year to write this book. As native Quebecers they were already fluent in French, and in fact had already lived in Paris some years earlier. And yet, they found that the...

Book Review: My (Part-Time) Paris Life by Lisa Anselmo

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 6, 2019 | RELAX: Memoir

Lisa Anselmo had a good life in New York City. A good job, with family nearby, and regular vacations in Paris. Then her mother passed away from cancer, and Lisa felt utterly unmoored. She reached out to Paris, beginning to spend more time there. The time there helped....

Book Review: Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 3, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Christopher Moore is a master of the humor-filled, historical fiction with a fantasy twist novel. How’s that for a sub-genre? Sacré Bleu was my favorite read this January. BTW, you should know that the French expression “sacrebleu” is used to convey surprise,...

Book Review: Murder in the Marais by Cara Black (Aimee Leduc #1)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 1, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

This was my first venture into the Aimée Leduc series from Cara Black. So, I started with book one and took an armchair trip to the neighborhood in Paris called the Marais. Aimée is the owner of a small private detective agency in Paris. She’s the daughter of a French...

Book Review: Paris Time Capsule by Ella Carey

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 12, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Like imaginative authors everywhere, Ella Carey based Paris Time Capsule on a real-life occurrence. In late 2010, a Paris apartment that had been uninhabited for 70 years was opened after its owner’s death. She had left Paris during World War II and never returned....

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