Tag Archives: France

Suite Francaise

January 8, 2009 – 6:27 pm

This is a novel that will sneak up on you. Do yourself a favor and read the edited version of the French edition’s preface that appears at the end of the book first. It is a mini biography of the author and the circumstances that she and her family lived under as a Jew in [...]

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Trail of Crumbs

December 13, 2008 – 7:29 pm

Beautiful memoir and wonderful recipes. This post was submitted by joe.

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This “Airport Novel” is a Must See

May 27, 2008 – 7:27 pm

I usually only blog about movies that are adaptations of a book I’ve read and liked. I’m taking artistic license by recommending a wonderful French movie with a literary theme written by the prolific director Claude Lelouch that I saw this past weekend. “Roman De Gare”, roughly translated “airport novel”, is a fun romp set [...]

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