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#ParisinJuly2025: 1 more week for #reading #books, watching #movies, listening to #music, observing, #cooking, and indulging in all things #French! https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/07/01/parisinjuly2025-all-the-links/
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(via Book review: Cyborg Fever) #Book #review Cyborg Fever by #LaurieSheck #TulepoPress #scifi #litfic MY VERDICT:Labyrinthine fever dreams meet hard science. Real genius minds, AI, cyborgs, and the ultimate question: what is the meaning of it all? A mind-bending and eye-opening tour de force. https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/30/book-review-cyborg-fever/
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(via Book review: The Goodhart Family) #Book #review: The Goodhart Family by #RunjunLahkar MY VERDICT:A gorgeous and simple #picturebook to teach your child that yes, #kindness can overcome cunning. Exists in #English and #French https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/23/book-review-the-goodhart-family/
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#authors You recently wrote or will soon publish a #book related to #France or #Paris? Have it featured during #ParisinJuly2025 the place where all France lovers come! https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/05/16/paris-in-july-2025/
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#Authors / #Publishers: did you recently or are you preparing to publish a #book related to #Paris / #France ? Have it featured during the BIG event #parisinjuly2024 Come this way to know more and apply: https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/04/23/paris-in-july-2024/
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Friday Face Off: a blue cover
Friday Face Off: a blue cover
The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy: each Friday, bloggers showcase book covers on a weekly theme. Visit Lynn’s Books (@LynnsBooks) for a list of upcoming themes. Please visit also Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy (@tammy_sparks) thanks to whom I discovered this meme. This week, the theme is “Dark/sky/navy – a cover that is blue“ I’m featuring a book with a blue cover…

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Throwback Thursday: June 2012
Throwback Thursday: June 2012
#ThrowbackThursday Revisiting what I posted 10 years ago (my blog was born on September 29, 2010) following the idea I found at The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog (click on this link or the logo to see where the idea started from, and to post the link to your own post). 📚 📚 📚 Today, I’m revisiting June 2012. I published 28 posts, 7 of these were reviews. Of these books, here is the one that…

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Bout of Books 34
Bout of Books 34
BOUT OF BOOKS 35 #boutofbooks This is my 21st participation! Click on the logo to join the fun! The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins Monday, August 15 and runs through Sunday, August 21 in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram…

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Six degrees of separation: from a Japanese American author to a Japanese nuclear power plant
Six degrees of separation: from a Japanese American author to a Japanese nuclear power plant
Picture found at: https://www.melindatognini.com.au #6Degrees Six degrees of separation: from a Japanese American author to a Japanese nuclear power plant Time for another quirky variation on this meme. I’m so thrilled I started with a Japanese American author, and ended up in Japan, of course without anything planned ahead. Using my own rules for this fun meme hosted by Kate at…
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The top 8 books to read in August 2022
The top 8 books to read in August 2022
Here are The top 8 books I plan to read in August 2022 Click on the covers to know more 📚 CURRENTLY READING 📚 📚 Human Nature, by Serge Joncour Literary fiction Expected US publication: August 22nd 2022 by Gallic Books Translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie Received for review Serge Joncour is an impressive author. You can see for instance my review of Wild Dog. I actually…

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#Anna Gavalda#Daphne du Maurier#Guillaume Pitron#Josephine Tey#Jules Verne#Kent Haruf#René Barjavel#Serge Joncour#The top 8 books to read
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2022: July wrap-up
JULY 2022 WRAP-UP I’m slowly going into reading more of my TBRs, and it pays with fabulous books. So I’m devouring more and faster. I’m currently 11 books ahead of schedule (67% done) to read 120 books this year. Also, looks like I’m almost done with my 3rd list of classics for The Classics Club, with 131/137 books – in less than two years, instead of the five years projected. And I managed to…

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#Alain-Fournier#Blake Crouch#David Foenkinos#Eugene Vodolazkin#George Orwell#Georges Simenon#H.G. Wells#Kanae Minato#Rex Stout
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Book review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Book review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin Knopf Publishing Group 7/5/2022 416 pages Literary fiction Goodreads I enjoyed The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry a lot. And as Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is about video games (a theme I appreciate a lot in novels, like in Ready Player One for instance), it sounded promising and I requested it for review. But there are not too many…

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Sunday Post #63 - 7/24/2022
Sunday Post #63 – 7/24/2022
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme *** This post also counts for #SundayPost #SundaySalon #StackingTheShelves…

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#Alain-Fournier#Anna Gavalda#Boris Akunin#Eugene Vodolazkin#George Orwell#H.G. Wells#Jules Verne#Kanae Minato#Kent Haruf#Rex Stout#Sunday Post#WWW_Wednesdays
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Friday Face Off: Off the TBR
Friday Face Off: Off the TBR
The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy: each Friday, bloggers showcase book covers on a weekly theme. Visit Lynn’s Books (@LynnsBooks) for a list of upcoming themes. Please visit also Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy (@tammy_sparks) thanks to whom I discovered this meme. This week, the theme is “Off the TBR“ So I’m featuring the latest book I have added to my TBR. First,…

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Book review: The Martins
Book review: The Martins
The Martins, by David Foenkinos La famille Martin was first published in 2020 Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Gallic Books US release date 7/22/2022 248 pages Literary fiction Goodreads David Foenkinos is a popular French author and screenwriter. Although he has already written about twenty novels, I only discovered him recently with Le Mystère Henri Pick, a fantastic novel on the world…

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Paris in July 2022: Day 15: George Orwell and Book sale!
Paris in July 2022: Day 15: George Orwell and Book sale!
Paris in July 2022 #ParisinJuly Co-hosted by Readerbuzz and Thyme For Tea Day 15 George Orwell and Book sale! As you can see, I was not able to keep up posting every day of the month for Paris in July. BUT you are in for a double treat today. First of all, a book I just started listening to on Sunday: It’s actually totally by chance I’m listening to this now: I was done with my audiobook, so I…
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