Are you joining us? #Bookchat French Bookclub announcement!

RSVP Essential by 11 August + Reading + Live chat (text) + Online Video Book club discussion about 'My Cousin Maria Schneider' by Vanessa Schneider, translated by Molly Ringwald.

UPDATE: RSVP Essential by August 11, to attend Bookclub Online Discussion Event between 21-23 August 2023. Here is the RSVP Form

This announcement is about our French bookclub timeline + how it will work + To RSVP complete the Google form (linked below) to participate in the Event.

We’re reading ‘My Cousin Maria Schneider’ by Vanessa Schneider, translated into English by Molly Ringwald (actress and Francophile!) If you’d like to read with us, you still have time, but not much ;). It’s a short book and possible to read quickly… on y va !

We’re drawing to the end of our long reading period* of this extraordinary novel we’re soon to open TWO new live chat (text) channels and a LIVE video discussion EVENT later in August.

How will it work?

1. DISCUSSION POINTS will be provided/posted on August 15

2. TEXT CHAT CHANNELS for this book - We’re offering both Facebook & Substack channels to allow for your preference - your choice!
   
   a - A text chat channel will be opened on 15 August, in our private group on Facebook. Here’s the link to join the private MyFrenchLife Community Group, once there, ask about the bookclub #bookchat and you’ll be invited to join, et voilà – then from 15 August you’ll see the chat link!
   OR
   b - A text chat channel will be opened on 15 August, on our Substack** – ‘le Bulletin by Judy MacMahon’ Here’s the link to subscribe to ‘le Bulletin’ (free or paid) – you can access it on the Substack app, or online by email – according to your preference. And here is the link to #bookchat on our Substack where you’ll find the most recent posts about events and dates.

3. LIVE VIDEO EVENT – French Bookclub discussion

   - As we have readers all around the world, particularly in the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia, we need to know who’s intending to attend a live discussion. Dates will be between Monday 21 & Wednesday 23 August 2023

   PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM TO RSVP TO JOIN THE LIVE EVENT
   Here is a link to a Google Form to collect your preferences and location, to help us organise dates and times. Completing the form is essential as the Zoom link will be emailed only to those respondents.

   Please complete this form before 11 August – thank you!

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We’re looking forward to discussing this book together as there are so many facets to explore - discussion points will be published on 15 August 2023.

What’s this book about?

“A beautiful eulogy and a much-needed corrective” (The New York Times)—a love letter to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame in the controversial film Last Tango in Paris—only to live the rest of her life plagued by scandal, as told from the perspective of her adoring younger cousin. (Simon and Schuster)

Maria Schneider died in 2011, aged 58.

By Women, about Women

This book follows our reading of other books written by women, about women around the theme of #womensissues: ‘Mad Women’s Ball’ and ‘Love Me Tender’.

Reminder

Please make sure that you complete the Expression of interest FORM and finish reading ready to chat via text and/or attend the LIVE Zoom event. We will only take into account expressions of interest on the Google form.

Warm regards
Judy MacMahon and Elisabeth Sauvage-Callaghan

Note
1. *The reading time for this book has unusually been extended a number of times, especially for those as part of the Facebook #Bookchat private Group due to some unavoidable circumstances or call it - life getting in the way.

2. **Substack is a digital publishing & newsletter platform with social media features. It’s excellent for writers and readers to have direct contact. Readers can choose to be free or paid subscribers of their chosen writers. The Substack community is without the rubbish, you experience on other social media platforms

3. Should you have any questions please email me on info [at] MyFrenchLife.org