Les Signes in France

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Top French-ish Things I Love

French cafes

The Eiffel Tower

Picnics

Scarves

The French language

French bread

French food

French art

French fashion

French markets

All photos from my 2010 trip to France.

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Sitting in Silence for the World. And Hugging Our Grandchildren.

There are troubles in America. Sometimes the only thing we can do is sit in silence and hug our grandchildren. Yes, there are troubles in America, but all is well in Paris in July.  I'm reading twelve books at once. All except one are French. I read a chapter in one book and then read a few pages in another. The tv is off.  Here's what I'm reading: cover title  author Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes Beddard, Kristen  Bonjour Tristesse Sagan, Françoise Buying a Piece of Paris Nielsen, Ellie Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life David, Susan Girl in Dior Goetzinger, Annie In the Café of Lost Youth Modiano, Patrick The Little Paris Kitchen Khoo, Rachel Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris Gallico, Paul Satori in Paris & Pic Kerouac, Jack The Story of Diva and Flea Willems, Mo The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Pizzoli, Greg  Maybe I can take away a little hope, a little peace, a little compassion for the world from these books. What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon. The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week. Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share books that we found in our mailboxes last week.   It is now being hosted here. Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews in which you can share the books you've acquired. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is now being hosted at The Book Date.

Je Suis un Flâneur Dans une Rue de Paris*

* I Am a Stroller on a Street in Paris

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French Books I've Enjoyed That You Might Have Missed

The challenge this week from The Broke and the Bookish is to list our top ten books that have under 2000 ratings on Goodreads. I decided to focus on French and French-ish books. And I decided to choose books that have less than 1000 ratings. 

It was interesting to discover how other people have rated books I have rated. Here's what I discovered:

* More than a third of the books I've read and reviewed have been reviewed by less than 1000 people. I like that.

* I have forty-one books read that more than a million people have rated on Goodreads. Wow. 

* The two books I've read with the least number of ratings---one rating and it's mine---are children's books I've read in French.

Here, then, are some French books you may have missed:

French Books You May Have Missed Paris by Pastry: Stalking the Sweet Life on the Streets of Paris Do you need a guide to the best pastries of Paris? There can be no guide more complete than this one. Mind the copyright date, of course, but give thi ...more Paris If you are going to Paris or if you’ve been to Paris or if you’ve ever wanted to go to Paris, you must read this book. It’s a collection of very, very ...more Crêpes by Suzette‎ It was the Paris setting that persuaded me to review my first-ever book app. Crêpes by Suzette is a book app that was developed from the children's pic ...more 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go I'm a lucky girl. In 2010, in what must have been a heavenly intervention, I was able to leave my ordinary life, fly across the big ocean, and spend t ...more Minnie and Moo Go to Paris (Minnie and Moo Minnie and Moo are two cows that decide to make off with a bus and see the world. Neither of these two cows are very good at reading signs as they stu ...more [edit] In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel Read the subtitle before you start telling me what an amazing reader I am. Full disclosure here: It's a graphic novel of Proust's mega-tome. I must sa ...more [edit] An Armadillo in Paris If an armadillo can go to Paris, we can all go. Arlo is such an armadillo, and he’s following in the footsteps of his adventurer grandfather Augustin. ...more Blossoming In Provence All you need to say is “French setting” and I come running. I read Espinasse’s earlier book, Words in a French Life, a few years ago and liked the way ...more Paris Times Eight: Finding Myself in the City of Dreams That's Paris Times Eight. Kelly visits Paris, yes, eight times, and each trip changes her. Hope I will have my own Paris Times One experience this sum ...more Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light John Baxter takes on yet another tour of Paris, this time at night. Baxter spouts out story after story as he leads us around the city in the dark for ...more 750 Years in Paris Now isn't this fun? Mahé takes a building in Paris from the time it was first built until the present day, stopping now and then to take a close look ...more Paris: An Inspiring Tour of the City's Creative Heart I can ask one simple question and your answer will tell me if you will like this book. Here goes: Do you like Paris? If you answer yes, you will like it ...more The Queen of France Rose decides she is royal when she wakes up, so she becomes the Queen of France. She seeks out Rose’s mother, but no one knows where Rose is. She pric ...more Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living Arbor is a Frenchman now living in America who owns a restaurant. One of the pleasures of this book is that it contains many, many recipes. But that i ...more The Bird Market of Paris: A Memoir Nikki Moustaki has had a lifelong love affair with birds, a love affair inspired and nurtured by her grandfather’s love and respect for birds. But whe ...more The Tapestry of Love I was offered a copy of The Tapestry of Love from the author. The author had sent me her previous novel last year and I found it to be a small but com ...more The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France Some writers have all the fun. John Baxter, an expat twenty-year Paris-ite and writer, decides to set off around France in search of all the wonderful ...more Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France 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 husba ...more We'll Always Have Paris: Sex & Love in the City of Light Baxter interweaves the tale of his love story with Marie-Do, his love story with Paris, and the story of love and sex in Paris in this book, We'll Alw ...more The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France Ray Walker didn’t even like wine until he took a sip of a startlingly amazing wine in Italy. He was hooked. He single-mindedly began a quest to learn ...more The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau Nobody thought Henri Rousseau could paint. Did that stop him? No, he painted on, past cruel remarks and vicious critiques and scathing reviews. On and ...more A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light Australian Bryce Corbett somehow finds himself in the most bewitching, the most bewildering of towns, Paris. He bungles his way through working at his ...more French Twist: An American Mom's Experiment in Parisian Parenting American children are brats. (Ouch. That hurts.) That’s true. We know it is true. But it still hurts to write it down. And I’m not just talking about Oth ...more Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat Not only have I fallen in love with two baseball books among this year's Cybils nonfiction picture book nominees, but I am enamored of two books about ...more Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child Julia Child is a wonder to us in America. She somehow managed to break every cultural norm for women of her time (she worked and lived independently f ...more My Secret Guide to Paris Nora desperately wants to visit Paris. Her grandmother has shared story after story with her of the delights of the city, and now Nora hopes to finall ...more French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France A job transfer sends Ramsey and her husband and three young children off to France. The countryside is beautiful, but the people are…well, irascible. ...more Paris Is Always a Good Idea A little mystery...a little romance...and, of course, Paris. That's the gist of this book. Rosalie is the owner of a tiny postcard shop in Paris. One...more Provence A-Z Its appeal was also its downfall: The little stories were often just a bit too little. I should have stuck with the abridgement. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas Paris. Sigh. I’m a sucker for anything-Paris. I’m so blinded by the beauty of Paris that I can’t properly evaluate any set-in-Paris book. And this sto ...more [edit] The 6:41 to Paris The simplest of plots: a man and a woman sit down next to each other on the train to Paris. Insert a small twist: the man and woman knew each other we ...more e Serve It Forth Brilliant essays loosely written on the theme of food. Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France I wanted to give up on this book. It was too much work to keep flipping between the French words intermingled with the essay and the dictionary at the ...more Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris If you have never had the experience of reading the prose of one of those old, amazing newspapermen, Liebling is your fellow. And where does he take y ...more  Have you read any of these?

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Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

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