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🌺 Paris and gardens are two of my favorites subjects, so of course I was delighted to win this book from #ParisinJuly2025 - thanks Emma! Th...

  🚤 This would be my starting point of reading the wide-read French detective stories of Georges Simenon. Maybe I should have started from ...

  🎒 The idea of, first, leaving one's job while one loves it; and second, going across France by walking, are two unthinkable things fo...

  🎀 It was on the summer solstice in Paris, that this story had begun. The French has their own celebration on that day,  La Fête de la Mu...

  🚣 While searching for an audiobook of Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil - an essay by Jean-Claude Izzo - I've planned to read for #Par...

🧄 This short book is an essay written by Jean-Claude Izzo, a native Marseilles poet and writer. The main theme of the essay are his love of...

💚 The titular greengage summer is the summer when five siblings were staying at Hotel Les Oeilletes in a French seaside village. The story ...

🦔 The story takes place in an elegant apartment building in central Paris, where two of our heroines live. One is a genius teenage girl fro...

🔻 A little confession... I have picked this book just because of the title (everything with "Paris" attracts my attention) and th...

📕 Antoine Laurain has become a staple author for me. His books (so far) are always highly entertaining, and so I had decided two or three y...

🍷 A Year in Provence  became my first entry for #ParisInJuly2025, hosted by Emma @ Word and Peace. It's the first of a series of memoir...

A French Frye in Paris is a YouTube channel belongs to a New Yorker guy now living in Paris called Corey Frye. He is now a full time tour ...

💜 Embalmer. How many people could boast that as a profession? Or, how many author out there ever thought of writing about it? Jean-Paul Did...

🤫 Le Silence de la Mer   is a 2004 French movie directed by Pierre Boutron. Based on a novel by Jean Bruller with the same title (I would l...

🍾 The year 1954, wine and UFO. These are three elements that Antoine Laurain had woven into a fantastic time-travelling story set in Paris....

Besides reading French or French-themed books for #ParisinJuly, I have a habit of compiling French music playlist to listen to during the mo...

💛 Juliette doesn't love her 9-5 job at the real estate agent, but she loves her metro journey to the office every day. Juliette lives a...

🚘 Set in the 1950s (about ten years after WWII), a British widow named Charity Selborne is on holiday in Provence with her friend Louise. A...