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We spent the weekend in Paris, Texas, and what a fun weekend it was! We ate pastries at the Paris Bakery, shopped at some Paris stores, traiped through a Paris farmers' market, got a library card from the Paris Public Library, and, of course, visited the Eiffel Tower.
What I Read Last Week:
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift
What I'm Reading Now:
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Book Club)
Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer (Nonfiction)
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood (Fiction)
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff (1001 Children's Books)
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
I delighted this month in celebrating Paris in July. I enjoyed being in Paris this July by:
(1) Reading books set in Paris...These are listed in Enjoyment Order, from Most to Least...
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Remembering Paris by Denis Tillinac
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art by Sue Roe
The Jules Verne Prophecy by Larry Schwartz and Iva-Marie Palmer
Claudine: A Fairy Tale for Exceptional Grownups by Marian Grudko
Picasso and Minou by P. I. Maltbie
Fantômette et la maison hantée by Georges Chaulet
The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Bakery in Paris by Aimee Runyon
La Vie, According to Rose by Lauren Parvizi
(2) Watching...
Maigret (1992) on BritBox. (Mystery series)
Maigret (2018) on BritBox. (Mystery series)
Odette Toulemonde on Kanopy. (Movie)
(3) Practicing my French on Duolingo.
(4) Eating at Brasserie du Parc,
a French restaurant in downtown Houston.
(5) Baking croissants.
(6) Visiting Paris...Paris, Texas, that is.
I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:
Good Thing #1:
G-granddaughter Lucy loved
having her 3rd birthday party
She found a beautiful (imitation) ammonite
in the dig-for-fossils pit.
Good Thing #2:
We had a great time at
A Wrinkle in Time,
a play put on by children at
nearby
Alvin Community College.
Good Thing #3:
My friend Janet and I,
in our search for
a reported Northern Bobwhite
in our area, arrived
at a private bird hunting area.
The only bobwhite we found
was on the sign. Ha!
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