Continuing my Paris reading, alternating between the classic Baedeker‘s Paris travel guide, and the novel Paris, a saga spanning the years 1261 through 1968.
Bandette 🐶 loves to read with me as long as I keep her properly covered up under the blanket!
#Paris 🇫🇷
#DogsOfLitsy

I haven‘t read her newest book, but I love this quote of hers on the Friends & Fiction podcast.

Diving in the summer 💦 with this Caldecott honor book.
Lol even though I‘m curled under my blanket!! Bandette likes to read with me, but she insists on a blanket!
💦 🏊‍♂️ 📚 🐶 ☀️

This saga brings life to Paris from the 1200‘s to the 1800‘s through the eyes of 6 families. The story is compelling and so is the history.
It reminds me of Ken‘s Follet‘s Kingsbridge Trilogy, beginning with The Pillars of the Earth 👇
#Paris 🇫🇷

While I‘m reading this epic I have some other cute little Paris travel books to browse in between!!
*** I also just saw the movie 🎥 Eiffel. It is a French movie and has subtitles. It‘s about the building of the Eiffel tower and has a (I believe fictional) love story entwined.
#Paris

I‘m glad I that I just read A Movable Feast and The Paris Wife before I dove into The Sun Also Rises.
Having read the backstories in those books helps me appreciate this novel more. The Lost Generation must have had some serious PTSD after WWI. #Paris

I‘m continuing my submersion in all things Paris. This is a memoir that has a very strong sense of place. It‘s based in the 9th Arrondissement. ( her home in ?), not far from Sacre Coeur ?. I circled Ile de la Cité & Ile Saint-Louis ? for reference. #Paris

Both books describe Hemingway‘s early years in Paris. The Paris Wife is from Hadley‘s view & A Moveable Feast from Ernest‘s view.
Reading TWICE how Hadley LOST ALL of his manuscripts was TWICE as heartbreaking. They must have been thrown away, since there was no money 💰 in the valise. Could you imagine if the manuscripts were found, what they would be worth now?
#Paris

#Paris
Continuing my studies of Paris!
Lol this fine print may kill me though!

I chose the restored version- the one that reflects Hemingway‘s last draft & wasn‘t as edited. It‘s 2 hours longer. I wonder which version will be better?! #Paris

I‘m a day late, but:
1. Paris by the Book- audio
2. Vintage 1954- ebook
3. 3 out of five, maybe 4 for Paris ( so far) ; just started Vintage
4. I like to highlight, underline, & write in the margins

Thank you for the tag @ Ddzmini

#thoughtfulthursday

I heard about this book on the Strong Sense of Place Podcast- which I learned about on the podcast What Should I Read Next. I think it will fit in nicely to my 🇫🇷 Paris-themed reading. I was delighted to learn I‘ve already read this author. I loved his book the Red Notebook, and have been wanting to read more of his books. So here it goes… 🇫🇷
#Paris

Heading to the movie theater to watch this movie. Read the book as a teenager and saw the original film. We‘ll see how they do it this time around!

Enjoying some fisherman‘s chowder and salad after visiting an independent bookstore today!
#BuyIndie
#IndieBooks #IndieBookstoresDay #IndieBookstoresDay2022
#IndependentBookstoreDay
#IndependentBookstoreDay
#WatermarkBooksStore

So excited my next book came!
Thanks @EmilyChristine for sending my @Kangaj1 ‘s book!
Thankful #Covertocover #LitsyGoesPostal is still going after all these years!
I can‘t believe we started in 2017!
@Soubhiville is our Mother Creator!

This was a cute light read!

A fun caper- if you can call a kidnapping a caper! But who is kidnapping whom?
I loved the inclusion of paragraphs written as a sort of a parody of children‘s books. Her Russian family provides some fun also.

HAPPY EASTER ! Or Passover, Ramadan, or Sunday!!
🐰 🥚 🐣 ✝️🐣🥚🐰

We had a wonderful get together w. the 93 yo author. She‘s American born German descent. She & family in East Germany were 1st displaced by Russia during & then Poland after WWII. As a teen, she survived Russian work camps, displaced persons camps, & ocean voyage to America. Finally after 7 years, her Mom & brother joined her in KS. Her strength, joy, & gratitude should never be forgotten.

Can‘t wait for book club tomorrow. We are meeting with the author. She lives nearby in Kansas.
She was American born of German parents. They got displaced from their family farm in Germany during World War II by the Russians. After World War II they got displaced again by Poland and were sent to Russia Occupied Berlin. Once it was discovered that she was actually a US citizen, she was able to come to America!

#FriendsWithBooks

**POSSIBLY A VERY MILD SPOILER ALERT- but I think must know the premise of this story ***

Just started April‘s Sleeping Beauty Buddy Read

Essence of the Queen‘s Hungary Water I believe is perfume- possibly used here like smelling salts

#ChildrensClassicRead2022
#Childrensclassicread2022April

I find it fun to discover books that the same publisher published. Amsterdam Published these 2 great books about Resilient women.
🙏🏻🙏🏻Prayers to Rosie the Redhead- she is currently in the hospital 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 She survived Auschwitz, I hope she survives this. Check her out on IG

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca-VXeZDUCw/?utm_medium=copy_link

Yay! April‘s book is on Kindle Unlimited!

#ChildrensClassicRead2022
#Childrensclassicread2022April

Just starting this book. It seems very sweet. And who doesn‘t love a book about libraries, books, and reading?!!
📚 📖 📚

Thanks to @robinb @julesG and @squirrelbrain
Judge a Book By It‘s Cover!

Which book would you read?

#JudgeABookByItsCover

I‘m enjoying learning about Clementine Churchill. There are so many amazing women we need to learn about!

A cute debut novel. Grandma was a big influence in her life.
A good palate cleanser in between reading 2 WWII nonfiction books

This so far is a heartbreaking tale. There is hope at the end, because she is still alive. But the terror she is facing as an 18 yo girl is horrifying. She survived living it. I must survive reading it!

This is the sweetest book
Love the poems
So glad to read It!
#ChildrensClassicRead2022

#NeglectedCookbooks ( RachelO I think this is your! 😊)

This weekend I had fun cooking with my oldest son. We made Boeuf Bourguignon. It was sooo delicious!
The Barefoot Contessa never disappoints.

I‘m reading Ulysses along with Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce & some of my Litsy Book Club members.
The going is slow, while reading along with Frank Delaney‘s Re: Joyce podcast, but I‘m loving listening to him and hearing all the backstories & annotations.
#SandCoUlysses #LitsyBookClub

Reading about this resilient woman who survived Auschwitz.
Her IG account is so great!

Starting this for #LitsyBookClub. Come join us!

Starting this memoir for my IRL book club #FriendsWithBooks. We are meeting with the author in early April. She lives nearby.
I‘m planning to read as a companion book
The Redhead of Auschwitz
❤️‍🩹💝❤️‍🩹
#WomenInspiringWomen

This was a wonderful event. Adventures by the Book took us all on a great adventure!
San Diego Public Library is a beautiful venue.

Sourcebooks was well represented today at Adventures By The Book Super Book 3!

Reading The Rose Code in anticipation of this 20 author book event tomorrow in San Diego. Kate Quinn is going to sing the National Anthem!
Kansas to San Diego or Bust!
#SuperBook3
#AdventuresByTheBook

I‘m reading this with building dread. I do not like Phil 🥺

I did get a flashback today when Montgomery Wards Department Store was called “Monkey“ Wards. I hadn‘t heard that in decades – of course the store has s been closed for decades as well!
#LitsyBookClub

Great book about Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, and the publishing of James Joyce‘s Ulysses. It‘s a great companion piece to read along with Ulysses. I‘m reading Ulysses along with Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce & some of my Litsy Book Club members
#SandCoUlysses #LitsyBookClub

Finally!! My book came in! It was delayed by all of the snow last week. I‘ve been reading a great companion novel and listening to the podcasts. Now it‘s time to dig in and read!
#SandCoUlysses #Ulysses

Captain Sir John Franklin‘s Lost Expedition to the Arctic- his great failure- was mentioned in ❄️ The Arctic Fury ❄️, an excellent book of intrepid, brave, resilient women.
In The Exiles, the Franklins are featured characters, now living in Australia.
In both, Mrs Franklin rules the roost!

I‘m going to read this as a companion piece to #Ulysses
It‘s about the owner of Shakespeare and Company and her efforts to publish James Joyce‘s Ulysses.
#SandCoUlysses

I‘m bewitched. Mary Deerfield is a strong woman. I‘m wishing her well as I read. This is another brilliant book by @ChrisBohjalian about a strong woman holding her ground and fighting for what‘s right.

🐶 Bandette is posing like many women on book covers- with her back towards us!

#LitsyBookClub
#DogsOfLitsy

It‘s fun reading these 2 versions side by side!

#ChildrensClassicRead2022

I‘m really enjoying reading about Belle Marion Greener / Belle da Costa Greene. Such an amazing woman who helped build JP Morgan‘s library, all while passing. There is great collaboration between the authors. Glad my IRL book club picked this book to read!

#FriendsWithBooks

Such a lovely book! Loved the inclusion of the Dewey Decimal System.
Libraries, librarians, & books are so vital to our cultures!
🇫🇷📚 📚 📚 🇫🇷

Which I / we could pinch & expand photos. This is an insightful introduction. It‘s Ed Young‘s adaptation. (Book on left in other post)

#ChildrensClassicRead2022 January

At the library getting my 📚 🇮🇹 👦🏼

#ChildrensClassicRead2022 January

My goal is to read about France this year. I‘ve always wanted to go and this year it‘s
#FranceOrBust
I‘m starting off the year with this book.
#FirstLast

I was delightfully surprised by this book I read LAST YEAR. I have her cookbooks. I hope to finally explore them this year!
#FirstLast

My #LastBook is going to be My Life In France about Julia Child. I‘m reading this because I learned from a post of @EvieBee there‘s a new movie coming out about Julia Child.
My #FirstBook will be Monsieur Mediocre by John Von Sothen on my Kindle & The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict on audio for my IRL bookclub

#LastFirst

Enjoying this duel timeline of Leonardo da Vinci & Cecilia in 1492 Milan and Edith & Dominic during WWII. I enjoy learning about art history!
Sad my Kindle Paperwhite is not photogenic!