Tag: book review
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Full Circle {review + giveaway}
It’s summertime! Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere of course, in that case, it’s wintertime! Either way, it’s always a good time for a good book and do I have one for you! Julie Tulba has written a fantastically fun book of short stories full of traveling tales entitled, Full Circle. Each story is a…
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Mastering the Art of French Eating {review + giveaway}
via When I was contacted about reviewing Ann Mah’s, Mastering the Art of French Eating, I couldn’t have been more delighted. This is one of those sumptuous reads that I was dying to get my hands on. The whole title just draws me in; Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love…
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The Cleaner of Chartres {giveaway + review}
{author’s page} Chartres is a French town not too far from Paris but miles upon miles away from Le Petit Village. But like The LPV, Chartres is full of medieval buildings and quirky characters with curious pasts. The Cleaner of Chartres tells the tale of one of these characters… Agnès Morel is the local cleaner.…
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book giveaway: Franklin's Spy
I’m going to tell you guys about something that I think is pretty cool and that I’m really proud of… my mother, EE Bracken, has written and published two books… not one, but TWO! I know there are some people out there that think writing a book is a piece of cake, but I’m here to…
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glamorous giveaway
{best phone number ever} Today I woke up in The Husband’s old bedroom, with his old stuffed animals, six hours north of The LPV, in Auvergne. Auvergne isn’t the most glamorous place in the world (especially not right this second as it’s raining buckets), but it is a very beautiful and tranquil one (lots of lush…
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The Folly of French Kissing {review + giveaway}
{buy me} … and I can tell you that they detest the Parisian’s far, far more than you. -The Folly of French Kissing While reading Carla McKay’s mysterious and delightful romp through British expat life and intrigues in the south of France, The Folly of French Kissing, I came across countless lines that could have…
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love in a warm climate
{love in a warm climate} It’s a nice title, isn’t it? And for me, it’s nicer, more familiar even, because that love and warm climate, takes place right here in the south of France, my stomping grounds (sure it’s set in the Languedoc, and not Provence, but whatever). And get this… the subtitle is, A…
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I'm Giving Away the Secrets of Love…
(disclaimer: I’m not really)(clarification: I’m giving away some books, not any actual secrets of love)(author’s note: I don’t have any ‘love secrets’) {gallic books} I should have done this giveaway months ago, but you know how March wasn’t the best month in the history of my life which totally jacked up April, and well it…
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a naughty bawdy giveaway
{Gallic Books} The Sun King, Louis XIV of France, was a man that was used to getting what he wanted, and he wanted the most beautiful, buxom blonde in the land, Athénaïs. Never mind that Athénaïs was very much wanted by her own husband, Louis-Henri. Poor Louis-Henri, he was desperately in love and doomed for failure…
It's Me, Sara Louise 