Happy Bastille Day Book Clubs -- Vive it Up with a Discount on French Wine!
Celebrate Bastille Day with your book club this week, or month -- grab some bottles of French wine (from now until 7/18, wine.com is offering 1 cent shipping on orders of more than $99 for their wines from France!) and choose a book with a French theme to discuss next month.Thanks to my francophile friends for helping me compile the below list of suggested titles.
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
I've got Suite Francaise that's just been itching to be read for a while now. And what can be better than a nice glass of wine and a good book right!
Posted by: Darlene | July 14, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Can we make other French-themed suggestions? Because I really liked "Shakespeare & Co." by Sylvia Beach and "Time Was Soft There" by Jeremy Mercer.
I also want to read "Suite Francaise," and the Baxter book sounds intriguing.
Posted by: Julie E. | July 14, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Two nonfiction French-themed books you might be interested in:
A Journey into Matisse's South of France and A Journey into Flaubert's Normandy. www.roaringfortiespress.com
Posted by: Deirdre Greene | July 14, 2008 at 06:11 PM
*Suite Francaise* is such a great book! The backstory in the appendices adds to the intrigue. I haven't read any of Nemirovsky's other books.
Have to admit that I haven't read anything else on the suggested list either: "we'll always have Paris" is simply a line from Casablanca to me!
Posted by: Dawn | July 15, 2008 at 02:44 PM