Let's discuss options for our next book reading

We like very much to receive suggestions of books you'd like to read here at #Bookchat - reading along with other Francophiles...

Here is a suggestion from co- facilitator and MyFrenchLife.org Community member Keith Van Sickle

Let us know what you think about this suggestion, and, do you have other suggestions??? Please share your ideas and suggestions.

Thanks

Judy MacMahon

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Keith Van Sickle reading suggestion

Keith says:

I just saw this note about a book that might be interesting for our book group. It won the Prix du Premier Roman in 2021 and has just been translated into English.” Would you be interested to read this with us?

My Husband, by Maud Ventura, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan (HarperVia). Ventura’s protagonist, a forty-year-old English teacher and mother of two whose husband works in finance, is a comically exaggerated cliché whose sole concern is maintaining her husband’s interest. But, as the story progresses, the intensity of her fixation is contrasted with his profound indifference, and her vapid exterior is shown to mask desperate anxieties about class, gender, and power. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop.

Would you be interested to read this with us?

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Remember that in #Bookchat there are 3 key members as well as me, and each has different interests, so we may read different themes…

• Jacqueline Dubois - Convenor - French, living in France
  - Jacqueline’s articles on MyFrenchLife Magazine

• Elisabeth Sauvage-Callaghan - Facilitator - French, living in the USA
  - Elisabeth’s articles on MyFrenchLife Magazine + Interview

• Keith Van Sickle - Facilitator - American, living in California & Provence.
  - Keith’s articles on MyFrenchLife Magazine + Interview

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What will we read in the future?

To date, we’ve only read ‘Best-selling and award-winning, recently translated French fiction’ which has been fabulous. Some have read in French and most have read in English - discussion has been held in English. Jacqueline Dubois is the convenor of this group and occasionally Elisabeth and Keith have facilitated.

We’re considering adding additional sub-groups where we read different types of books and different themes and I’m open to your suggestions - below, please.