Moonlight Over Paris, Love à la Mode, and Rosetta Stone: Français

Paris in July has begun, and everything on my blog has been dunked in a pot of Paris. I've finished my first two books set in Paris, Moonlight Over Paris and Love à la Mode. Moonlight Over Paris is a novel of historical fiction of an English art student who meets and falls in love with an American journalist. Love à la Mode is a light YA romance about two teens who are accepted into an esteemed French cooking school. Have you ever eaten an entire bag of chocolates? You know how I feel right now.

I'll try some nonfiction as a palate-cleanser.  A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment and Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris sound promising.

Last week I won three books. Wow! Kathy from BermudaOnion's Weblog let me know that I had won The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker, the story of a young woman who impulsively gives up her dream life to take a job as marketing a family-run winery in Sonoma. There has been lots of praise for this novel from Real Simple to Newsday to Library Journal. Bryan at Still an Unfinished Person told me I'd won Claudia Rankine's Citizen and The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne in his Big Five-Oh Book Giveaway. Citizen was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, the winner of the NAACP Image Award, the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize, and the winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and it's been touted as both poetry and essay. The Heart's Invisible Furies is by the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It's described as "a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland," and it is also the recipient of several book awards. I eagerly look forward to reading all three of these books.

Take a look at The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years, if you haven't already.

I wrote everything Paris this week on my blog:

Favorite French Childhood Favorites

I Forgot to Tell You I Went to Paris Last Month

The Jump Back July Action Calendar from Action for Happiness has daily suggested actions to do throughout July 2019 to help you be more resilient and find ways to cope with life's ups and downs. You can download it as an image file for sharing via social media or a PDF file for printing. 

The Marmalade Gypsy shared some of her favorite specialty shops in Paris here.

I'm making my way through Rosetta Stone: Français. I used Rosetta Stone nine years ago as I prepared for my first trip to Paris. When I got the discs out this week, Level 1 was missing. Oh well. I decided to start with Level 2. Why not?

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