Acts of Kindness - Book Exchange Project
So appropriate! "Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." by American aphorist (and professor of French) Mason Coole.
Arts + Culture
Book Review: Final Transgression by Harriet Welty Rochefort
Harriet Welty Rochefort paints this complex tableau of war in France with a fine brush…
MyFrenchLife – MaVieFrançaise #bookclub: September-October read
Read with us this September, the MyFrenchLife™ French Book Club is reading ‘The Exchange of…
Book review: 'The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris' by Marc Petitjean
Discover two stories in one compact book. An in-depth look the artist Kahlo & her…
Les Années (The Years) by Annie Ernaux: bookclub event recap
This very interesting memoir spans Annie Ernaux’s life from her birth: 1940 to 2006.
Film review: House of Cardin
Not known as a sartorial genius in the same way Valentino or Yves St Laurent…
The Rain Watcher by Tatiana de Rosnay: bookclub event recap
In the beginning, I had good reasons to choose this book even though I had…
Wild beasts on the French coast
A handful of painters who had tired of Impressionism were moving on to something new: Fauvism