Book review and giveaway: Seven Letters From Paris – I love France #116

Posted on October 13, 2014 by WordsAndPeace

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Seven Letters From Paris

In full compliance with FTC Guidelines,
I received this book for free in exchange
for a fair and honest review.
I was in no way compensated for this post
as a reviewer,
and the thoughts are my own.

Seven Letters From Paris
By Samantha Vérant
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Pub. Date: October 7, 2014
ISBN: 978-1402297229

Pages: 288
Genre: memoir / nonfiction
Source: Received
from the publisher for a
virtual book tour on France Book ToursGoodreads

This book counts for the following Reading Challenges:

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BOOK

Things are really not going well for Samantha: after almost 10 years of quasi estrangement with her husband, she is faced with a major credit card debt, the impossibility to find a job aside dog walker, plus health issues to top it all. Talking with her good friend Tracey, she reminisces the close-to-paradise time they both spent in France in Summer 1989, and especially their encounter with two young Frenchmen…
Jean-Luc had sent her 7 love letters, but bearing the stigma of her own dad abandoning her and her mother, she had been afraid to get too close, and had never answered. Twenty years later, maybe time had finally come to try to find him, to apologize and maybe try to reconnect? I loved the memoir Seven Letters From Paris!
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Sunday Post #10 – 10/12/14

Posted on October 12, 2014 by WordsAndPeace

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Mailbox Monday,
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
and WWW Wednesdays

This past Thursday was a great day for French Literature, as for the 15th time –a record, it is a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In fact, an article I read in Le Figaro a few days before made me actually guess Patrick Modiano was going to be the winner. So I went to ladbrokes, wanted to bet on him, only to discover that you could not bet on ladbrokes when you lived in the US! I could have won!!!
For once, I know this author and I really enjoy his style! Unfortunately, he does not seem well know in the US.
Actually, my public library had only 1 book by him, and they put it in the sales room a few months ago. Of course I purchased it, even though I prefer to read him in French of course. Conclusion: my public library does not have one single book by the most recent Nobel prize in literature. And my public libraries network has only 4 titles, for someone who wrote so much… For once, this does not look too good for public libraries…

BOOKS JUST READ

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CURRENTLY READING

The Sharp Hook of Love, by Sherry Jones: histfic on Heloise and Abélard,
the famous medieval lovers.
Review scheduled for 10/26 for France Book Tours
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce – audiobook
Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion, by Barbara Scott Emmet,
who will publish a guest-post on Oct 20!
4. And a few more!!

BOOKS UP NEXT

Juliet’s Nurse, by Lois Leveen.
Review scheduled for 10/31 for Italy Book Tours!
Next audio book: The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson,
received for review from Simon & Schuster

LAST WEEK ON WORDS AND PEACE
and FRANCE BOOK TOUR

A Paris Apartment, by Michelle Gable: review
A Paris Apartment, by Michel Gable: interview
Deadly Tasting, by Alaux and Balen: spotlight and giveaway
Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth: giveaway winner
The Church of Tango, by Cherie Magnus: tour quotations
The Church of Tango: giveaway winners
Crossing The Line, by Frédérique Molay: giveaway winners
10/7: release day of The Sharp Hook of Love, by Sherry Jones; and of Seven Letters From Paris, by Samantha Vérant
The City of Blood, by Frédérique Molay: new tour launched, review copies available!

COMING UP ON WAP and FBT

10/13: Seven Letters From Paris, by Samantha Vérant: review + giveaway)
10/14: The Enchantress, by Magie Anton: spotlight + giveaway
10/15? Velvet Morning Press presentation and interview
10/17: Deadly Tasting, by Alaux and Balen: release day
Crossing The Line: tour quotations
A Paris Apartment: tour quotations
Some time this week, you should receive the Newsletter #2. Did you know that by opening it, you are entered into an exclusive giveaway? Sign up now if you have done it yet! – sorry, I am late on that!!

BOOK REVIEW MOST READ THIS PAST WEEK

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POST MOST VIEWED ON FRANCE BOOK TOURS

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and enter the giveaway!

CURRENT GIVEAWAYS

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BOOKS ADDED TO MY GOODREADS TBR

BOOKS RECEIVED THIS PAST WEEK

Nagasaki, received from Gallic Books for review in January
The Innovators, received from Simon & Schuster Audio for review

CHECKED OUT AT THE LIBRARY

HOW WAS YOUR WEEK?

Sunday Post #9 – 10/5/14

Posted on October 5, 2014 by WordsAndPeace