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2024 MyFrenchLife™ Book Club reading list of recently-translated French novel
As we celebrate our sixth year at MyFrenchLife™ Book Club, Judy and I have decided to resume a previous habit of sharing a list of books we could be reading in the coming months, before Summertime 2024.
Napoleon the film: Does it do the French Emperor Justice?
Napoleon the Film, Is creating much discussion that In preparation of going to see it ,Jacqueline Dubois is offering her review, which helps put some things in context.
An Exploration of Creativity – Henrie Richer asks: “What Makes an Artist?”
What makes an artist? All humans are creative. It's a survival skill. We're all capable of making or imagining something new. It is how our species adapts.
#Bookchat August Event Summary: ‘My Cousin Maria Schneider’ by Vanessa Schneider – 2023
#Bookchat - 'My Cousin Maria Schneider' by Vanessa Schneider - In August 2023 #Bookchat discussion events were held online across five time zones with Discussion Moderator - Elisabeth Sauvage-Callaghan and Coordinator - My French Life Magazine Fondatrice, Judy MacMahon.
Interview: Michelle Richmond – multi-award-winning & New York Times best-selling author – VIDEO
Michelle Richmond - multi-award-winning & New York Times best-selling author, speaking about Living in Paris, writing techniques, career highlights and much more...
France: Literary Pilgrimages – Proust, Louis Stevenson, and Modiano
France: Literary Pilgrimages - In the back of my mind, there was always the question: what do we hope to get from places that are marked by writers?
A Day with Claude Sarraute – Une Journée avec Claude Sarraute
When I was a journalist in Paris, working for CBS News from 1984 to 1987, I wrote a radio report about a day I spent with newspaper columnist Claude Sarraute. I loved reading Sarraute’s columns in Le Monde.
Chateau la Coste: I Dreamed a Dream
Chateau la Coste: Where we explored inspiring world class art, architecture, and superb surroundings including the Bob Dylan sculpture and not forgetting the David Hockney exhibition in Aix.
Creative Immersion in Pays de la Loire: The Nantes Writers’ Workshop
Nantes Writers’ Workshop is an intimate, immersive workshop for fiction and non-fiction writers at all stages of their creative endeavors.
Celebrating Songs of Belle du Berry: Exclusive Adelaide Cabaret Festival – June 9, 10, & 11, 2023
In exclusive performances at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival — on June 9, 10, and 11, 2023 — the iconic French band Paris Combo will pay a vibrant tribute to their charismatic chanteuse & songwriter Belle du Berry, who passed away suddenly in 2020, aged just 54, following a brief battle with cancer.
