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❤ Time and again I have mentioned that Germinal is my all time favorite book. I haven't yet found any other which is as compelling and ...

Starting this year I will try to read more of Zola's short stories, as I have read all but one of the Rougon-Macquart series...

#SixBooksSaturday is my personal monthly bookish meme, inspired by Six Words Saturday, which I've stumbled upon @ Travel with Intent . ...

👗 The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) is one of my favorites from Zola. It is less "raw" than the others in Rougon-M...

Le Bon Marche by Felix Valloton The Parisian store which inspired The Ladies' Paradise This is a post I've published years ago, when...

💜 For a Night of Love is a collection of three stories with one similar theme: love. But, this is from Zola, so don't expe...

This is the second Zola's biography I've ever read - the first being F.W.J. Hemmings's The Life and Times of Émile ...

I read The Sin of Abbé Mouret for the first time three years ago, in Zoladdiction 2018. If you want to know what the story'...

Since this is my second read, I won't write much on what the story is about - this you can read in my first review of The Co...

The third novel of the The Rougon-Macquart cycle introduced us to another field in the modernization of Paris brought by the Sec...

I am currently reading The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) as part of my The Rougon-Macquart Project . It's a reread, a...

The original title of this second novel in The Rougon-Macquart cycle is La Curée , a hunting term which means the part of an ani...

One of the things I love the most from hosting Zoladdiction is to find new Zoladdicts (readers addicted to Zola's) - either peop...

o once commented on my first review , that The Fortune of the Rougons won't probably be considered great if it were a standalone n...