Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

Today's Featured Book: 

Le Road Trip: 

A Traveler's Journey of Love and France

by Vivian Swift

Genre: Travel Nonfiction

Published: April 10, 2012

Page Count: 208 pages

Summary: 

Le Road Trip tells the story of one idyllic French honeymoon trip, but it is also a witty handbook of tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, a captivating visual record with hundreds of watercolor illustrations, and a chronicle depicting the incomparable charms of being footloose in France.

 

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY is hosted by Rose City Reader. What book are you happy about reading this week? Please share the opening sentence (or so) on BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY! Add the link to your blog or social media post and visit other blogs to see what others are reading.

Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.

THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by Anne of Head Full of Books. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up on Head Full of Books and visit others in the linky. 

You really have to see this book to really appreciate how lovely it is. Yes, Vivian Swift has written the story of the road trip she and her new husband took through Paris and France, and that’s lovely in itself, but she is also an artist who takes the tiny details of a trip and shares them with her readers through her compelling drawings, and that takes you right to what is beautiful and amazing about France.

I loved this book.

The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.    

May 9th - 15th - Have you ever looked at the young adult book section in a modern bookstore and felt out of touch or old? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

Duh! Yes!

P. S. I just realized after I published this post that I posted a prompt from May...Oh dear...I shall keep it and add the real prompt for today.

August 1 - 

 What book are you currently reading? What made you choose this title to read? 

- submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer

I am currently reading a biography of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. It is over 1000 pages long. I am reading it in connection with (do you follow this? it's a bit circuitous) reading James, a dual book club selection for this month.