Paris on my mind: So I'm reading..
Mar 28th, 2006, 09:18 AM
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Just finished re-reading "Born to Shop, Paris" by Suzy Gershman. I'm ready to hit the streets on April 18th - can't wait! Oh, and also spending time reading The Pocket Louvre by Claude Mignot. I skipped the Louvre during my last two visits so I'm planning to spend a full day this trip.
about the 1976 wine competition in which a Napa valley wine won a tasting competition over France's finest.
Apr 1st, 2006, 04:20 PM
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The Boston MFA had a collection of David
Hockney's Portraits and a Degas to Picasso.
I bought in the bookshop, "We'll always have Paris" by an Aussie John Baxter. It was a fast read and very entertaining, personal, historical all rolled into one as is what I'm reading now, "True Pleasures," a memoir of women in Paris.
The next I'll read is with the same title of Baxter's book, "we'll always have Paris" but this is a social study of American tourists in France since 11930.
Hockney's Portraits and a Degas to Picasso.
I bought in the bookshop, "We'll always have Paris" by an Aussie John Baxter. It was a fast read and very entertaining, personal, historical all rolled into one as is what I'm reading now, "True Pleasures," a memoir of women in Paris.
The next I'll read is with the same title of Baxter's book, "we'll always have Paris" but this is a social study of American tourists in France since 11930.
Apr 4th, 2006, 02:24 PM
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Just bought a book on Amazon called "The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview with Fernandel by Philippe Halsman.
Here's Amazon Book Description
Making faces: a highly original visual Q&A with France’s most beloved comic actor In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his wide, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch pretty girls in a crowd?" (silly grin) and "What was your reaction to the great American game of baseball?" (perplexed). Fernandel’s reactions are laugh-out-loud funny, and the book that resulted from this unusual collaboration is nothing short of wonderful. The Frenchman has been out of print for over fifty years, but TASCHEN’s reprint thankfully brings it back to life.
Fernadel starred in some really great movies. Amazon even sells a DVD called "Les Grands Classiques Fernandel". I tried buy a few of his movies on DVD last time I was in France but they were not formatted for the States.
Here's Amazon Book Description
Making faces: a highly original visual Q&A with France’s most beloved comic actor In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his wide, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch pretty girls in a crowd?" (silly grin) and "What was your reaction to the great American game of baseball?" (perplexed). Fernandel’s reactions are laugh-out-loud funny, and the book that resulted from this unusual collaboration is nothing short of wonderful. The Frenchman has been out of print for over fifty years, but TASCHEN’s reprint thankfully brings it back to life.
Fernadel starred in some really great movies. Amazon even sells a DVD called "Les Grands Classiques Fernandel". I tried buy a few of his movies on DVD last time I was in France but they were not formatted for the States.
Apr 4th, 2006, 02:58 PM
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Particia Wells, "The Provence Cookbook". It has great recipes; I especially like her Six Minute Cod Braised in Spicy Tomato Sauce and Quick Polenta Bread with Rosemary. It is very much like a memoir and has given me many ideas of places to visit and food products to look for.
My sis says I should read, "Hotel Pastis" by Peter Mayle. (lol see the pastis thread)
I just read "A Year In Provence" and "Encore Provence" and did you know that "A Year In Provence" was made into a mini type series for TV? I checked it out from the Santa Clara Valley Library Saratoga Branch. It was very interesting to hear the French characters speaking French rather than read in the book what they said in English.
My sis says I should read, "Hotel Pastis" by Peter Mayle. (lol see the pastis thread)
I just read "A Year In Provence" and "Encore Provence" and did you know that "A Year In Provence" was made into a mini type series for TV? I checked it out from the Santa Clara Valley Library Saratoga Branch. It was very interesting to hear the French characters speaking French rather than read in the book what they said in English.
Apr 4th, 2006, 04:30 PM
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hi friends I have the vids of "year in Provence" but I don't think they capture the real couple.
Fernandelwas a favorite of mine. Sometrimes on Tv they show a Pagnol film he made
, nais? the name escapes me at this point.
I finished both books with the title, "We'll always have Paris."
and "True Pleasures" All three books are great especially if you like looking where the writers and famous and infamous lived, like bookchick. Myself, I prefer meeting the living with the little time I can afford Paris.
I'm now rereading, A corner in the Marais.
Fernandelwas a favorite of mine. Sometrimes on Tv they show a Pagnol film he made
, nais? the name escapes me at this point.
I finished both books with the title, "We'll always have Paris."
and "True Pleasures" All three books are great especially if you like looking where the writers and famous and infamous lived, like bookchick. Myself, I prefer meeting the living with the little time I can afford Paris.
I'm now rereading, A corner in the Marais.
May 2nd, 2006, 02:02 PM
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I started this thread for books on PARIS ONLY!
I finished "Murder in Montmartre,"the latest Cara Black book.
Her "Murder at Clichy,"
"A Corner in the Marais," by Alex Karmel,
"True Pleasures"a memoir of women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth.
Rereading "Unexplored Paris,"by Rodolphe Troulleux.
"Across Paris," by Marcel Aymé, this is a collection of his stories that includes "the Man who walked through Walls."
I finished "Murder in Montmartre,"the latest Cara Black book.
Her "Murder at Clichy,"
"A Corner in the Marais," by Alex Karmel,
"True Pleasures"a memoir of women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth.
Rereading "Unexplored Paris,"by Rodolphe Troulleux.
"Across Paris," by Marcel Aymé, this is a collection of his stories that includes "the Man who walked through Walls."
May 2nd, 2006, 03:12 PM
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Oh jody, so do I. I miss her driving around my town with a wooden spoon attached to her antenna. (she claimed so she could find her RED car in the parking lots-but she loved the attention)The book is next.
May 3rd, 2006, 08:27 AM
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Hmmm, I have the Julia Child one on reserve too. Also "City of Falling Angels".
Michael Reynolds has a biography of Hemingway. (actually he has several). I think one of them is called "Hemingway, The Paris Years".
Michael Reynolds has a biography of Hemingway. (actually he has several). I think one of them is called "Hemingway, The Paris Years".
