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Throwback Thursday: August 2012

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Throwback Thursday

#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).

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Today, I’m revisiting August 2012.
I published 21 posts, 9 of these were reviews, including 3 books by Shakespeare.

Of these books, here is the one that received most views then:

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Second Empress

I don’t remember much about the book, even though my review was going deeper into details.

One book read that month really stayed with me:

Le Road Trip

A fascinating book, both for the ideas and the art – all done by the author herself. 
Click on the cover to know more.

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HAVE YOU READ THESE BOOKS?
PLEASE SHARE YOUR THROWBACK THURSDAY POST
My next post on this meme will be on November 3

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Throwback Thursday: March 2011

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Throwback Thursday

#ThrowbackThursday

Revisiting what I posted 10 years ago,
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).
On the first Thursday of the month available on my site,
I’m planning to post about the previous month, 10 years before.

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So today, I’ll be revisiting March 2011.

I published 15 posts, 4 of these were reviews.
Here is the one which received most views:

Madame Tussaud

It is still the best historical novel I have read on the French Revolution, and I have recommended many times since I read it ten years ago.

Another book reviewed hat month that has stayed with me, for the beauty of its writing:

  all is forgotten

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HAVE YOU READ THESE BOOKS?
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Next post will be on May 6

The Best: biography of Napoleon

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Friends and students (I teach French online through Skype), often ask me advice about books. Suddenly I thought that I might as well share with all of you, so this may become some type of memes.

Yesterday, I was asked what would be the best biography of Napoleon.

After a bit of research, it seems the best biography so far is

Napoleon

It is 926 pages long and was published in November 2014.
It received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2014).

Then I realized it was already on my TBR shelf!

I also found 2 fascinating lists, with a short summary for each book, here and here.
And I read a good historical novel set in Napoleon’s court:
Second Empress
Click on the cover to access  my review
Other good novels related to Napoleon:
The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour
and
For The King
HAVE YOU READ ANY OF THESE?
WHICH BIOGRAPHY OR NOVEL 
ON NAPOLEON
WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?