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kspenmoll
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#preorderbookclubchallenge #April #histotricalfiction #porchlife

Finished this tonight. Initially I read it, then put it aside, then picked it up again, etc. As usual, I need to sit on the book before i review it here. I am glad I read it.

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angieinwonderland
The Paris Novel | Ruth Reichl
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Reading this in Paris truly added the extra magic to the story! I went to Shakespeare and Company and couldn't imagine sleeping there. I saw Olympia and felt how one could be taken in by the need to know it all. I didn't seek the cuisine quite deliberately because...gross lol iykyk I'm eager to read the next one the author is writing right now!

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kspenmoll
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Deblovestoread Love your graphic! 6d
BarbaraBB Me too! 6d
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Leftcoastzen
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#Bibliophile #LostInTitle one of my favorite books about the time period. She knew everyone who came through Paris at the time.Hemingway,Fitzgerald, Stein, James Joyce . She was the first to publish Ulysses.

Eggs Sounds wonderful ❣️ 1w
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RowReads1
Les Parisiennes | Anne Sebba
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notreallyelaine

From a bubble of privilege, she extolled idleness. I think one must be idle in order to become oneself, she wrote. 'If you have a profession you become part of that profession. With work you become a function. With idleness you become who you are.'

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julieclair
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My May choice for #ReadOrDonate has been sitting on my shelves for years. It‘s time!

What will everyone else be reading?

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
julieclair @BarkingMadRead That one sounds fun! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. 1mo
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TheAromaofBooks I'm going with something fluffy this month in hopes that I actually read it!! 1mo
gossamerchild Sigh. I'm still working on The Cryptonomicon :-D I WILL finish it. This year ;-) 1mo
julieclair @gossamerchild You will definitely finish it! You‘re doing a great job of plugging away at it, bit by bit. 💪 1mo
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Sometimes nothing but fluff will do. #EmbraceTheFluff 1mo
gossamerchild @julieclair thank you! 1mo
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Conservio
The Coral Thief | Rebecca Stott
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slowly trucking along with the last two books for the #orilium April challenge. Oddly enough, the book about the history of Porcelain in Europe(The Arcanum) is the more interesting of the two.
#history #porcelain #paris

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emz711
Titanic Survivors Book Club | Timothy Schaffert
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I thought this was really clever. Cover was gorgeous. Had a lot of tidbits of life at that time. Meditation on "surviving" the Titanic is very interesting to me considering all the stories of "I could have been there" on 9/11

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xicanti
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Today involved a trip to Shakespeare and Co, as one must do when one is in Paris. I wrote a little in their Reading Room (a very little; someone else got to the convenient desk ahead of me) and bought some postcards since they don‘t allow photography.

TrishB I sneaked some photos whilst there! 2mo
xicanti @TrishB GASP! 2mo
TrishB I know! Bad girl. 2mo
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tpixie The Red Wheelbarrow is another lovely bookstore owned by Penelope- by Luxembourg Gardens 2mo
xicanti @tpixie ooh, I‘m gonna be near there next Thursday for sure! I‘ll try to check it out. 2mo
tpixie It‘s a nice little shop- lol @ about 6:16 it‘s featured in a video my son made for me from our 2022 Paris trip. https://youtu.be/P_TwAjc4DSM?si=WRqI10lpJ84TfiCU 2mo
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