I Can't Believe It, But I'm in France!

 

I've collected all kinds of books to take along with me to Paris. 

I plan to read on these for the next month while I am away.

Nana by Émile Zola (Classic)

Murder on the Marais by Cara Black (Mystery)

Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton (Classic)

Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp (Fiction)

The Paris Connection by (Contemporary Fiction)

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Foodie Nonfiction)

A Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (Foodie Nonfiction)

Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection by Janice MacLeod (Nonfiction)

Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Nonfiction)

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Classic)

Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

Authors I Haven’t Read, But Want To

Wondrous Words Wednesday

Good Things: Good Day in Paris Playlist

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below. 

Let's Learn Some French, Part 2

One of the best ways to learn words is to link them with pictures.

I'm hoping to learn these words and phrases in French so well that I can easily say them.

So I'm pairing up the words/phrases with some of my favorite pictures...

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! It was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion and is now hosted at Elza Reads.

Weekend Cooking was created by Beth Fish Reads and is now hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader (and Baker). It is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime over the weekend. You do not have to post on the weekend. Please link to your specific post, not your blog's home page. For more information, see the welcome post.

Authors I Haven’t Read, But Want To

William Faulkner

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

George Eliot

Gabriel García Márquez

Charlotte Brontë

Virginia Woolf

Louise Erdrich

David Foster Wallace

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.    

Believe It or Not, I'm in Paris!

 

I've collected all kinds of books to take along with me to Paris. 

I plan to read on these for the next month while I am away.

Nana by Émile Zola (Classic)

Murder on the Marais by Cara Black (Mystery)

Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton (Classic)

Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp (Fiction)

The Paris Connection by (Contemporary Fiction)

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Foodie Nonfiction)

A Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (Foodie Nonfiction)

Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection by Janice MacLeod (Nonfiction)

Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Nonfiction)

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Classic)

Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

Best Browseable Books...Huh? What's a Browseable Book? 

Weekend Cooking:  Sparkling Wine Anytime

Here I am...in Paris!

Good Things: Wandering-Around-the-Paris-Streets Playlist

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below. 

Sparkling Wine Anytime

I'm still making my way through Wine for Normal People: A Guide for Real People Who Like Wine, But Not the Snobbery That Goes With It. I have a lot to learn, but for today I'm setting it aside to share with you Sparkling Wine Anytime: The Best Bottles to Pop for Every Occasion.

I have made it clear that I know nothing about wine, really, but I will say that I love sparkling wine. It's my favorite. 

How much business does the wine trade do, globally? Yes, $35.3 billion a year. What percent is sparkling wine? 18%.

What country is the biggest importer of sparkling wine? Yes, the US.

And what country is the biggest exporter of sparkling? By volume, it's Italy, because of the very popular and relatively inexpensive Prosecco. But by dollar amount, it's France, exporting $3.5 billion of sparkling wine to Italy's $1.5 billion and Spain's $518 million.

When should you serve sparkling wine? Once it seemed it was only for special occasions. Now, Prosecco is great for light, sweet-and-spicy food; Cremant from the Loire is perfect with goat cheese; Lambrusco is made to go with pasta; and good Champagne is ideal with anything roasted.

And all of this is just from the introduction...

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! It was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion and is now hosted at Elza Reads.

Weekend Cooking was created by Beth Fish Reads and is now hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader (and Baker). It is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime over the weekend. You do not have to post on the weekend. Please link to your specific post, not your blog's home page. For more information, see the welcome post.

Best Browseable Books...Huh? What's a Browseable Book?

Do you remember the first time you bought Guinness Book of World Records in your Scholastic book order at school? Do you remember when the book came in and you couldn't stop reading it, turning the pages and reading along as a picture or a title caught your interest? 

Now that's a fabulous browseable book. 

What's the official definition of a browseable book? There's no such thing; I just made it up. But if I create it, I can define it, right? So a browseable book is a book made up of content you can read in any order, with content that is almost mesmerizing.

Long ago...

The Guinness Book of World Records

The People's Almanac

The Book of Lists

More recently...

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World 

Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Big Book of Small Stuff: 100 of the Best Inspirations from Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Ties that Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of Story Corps

Material World: A Global Family Portrait

All of these were five-star reads for me. I think you might call me a browse-a-phile.

Have you read any of these? Do you have any suggestions to add to my list?

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.    

Pinch Me...I'm in Paris!

I've collected all kinds of books to take along with me to Paris. 

I plan to read on these for the next month while I am away.

Nana by Émile Zola (Classic)

Murder on the Marais by Cara Black (Mystery)

Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton (Classic)

Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp (Fiction)

The Paris Connection by (Contemporary Fiction)

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Foodie Nonfiction)

A Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (Foodie Nonfiction)

Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection by Janice MacLeod (Nonfiction)

Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Nonfiction)

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Classic)

Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier (1001 Children's Books You Must Read)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

21st Century Books I Think Will Become Classics

Wondrous Words Wednesday: Let's Learn French, Part 1

I'm in Paris!

Good Things: Songs for Imagining Your Parisian Life

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.

Let's Learn French, Part 1

One of the best ways to learn words is to link them with pictures.

I'm hoping to learn these words and phrases in French so well that I can easily say them.

So I'm pairing up the words/phrases with some of my favorite pictures...

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! It was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion and is now hosted at Elza Reads.