Bonjour mes amis and bonjour Wednesday! I will be on my way tonight via red eye to NC for a week of visiting with friends and family. The purpose of the trip is to celebrate a 100th birthday party and if that’s not a good reason to fly across the country then I don’t know what is. Books For an update on the last WW post, so far I have made the quiche lorraine from How to Make a French…
Good morning everyone! I am so, so excited that Samantha has included Shelf Quest in the virtual tour of her new book, How to Make a French Family. How to Make A French Family is a delightful follow-up to Seven Letters from Paris (my review here). In this book, Samantha has moved to Cugnaux, a small town in southwestern France with her husband, Jean-Luc, and her stepchildren, Elvire and Max. Moving to a new country, being newly married, and suddenly being a…
Bonjour and welcome to my first Wednesday Whimsy post! I came up with the idea while in Paris, in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, and browsing French and Paris-themed articles. I have a lot of blogs, instagram accounts, movies, books, and online reads I regularly turn to or search out and thought I’d create a space to share all the good stuff. Originally I thought it would be a “French Friday” sort of thing but I found…
In my defense, it was a trip for my 30th birthday. Oops, did I say that out loud? Originally I was thinking of going to Disneyland in California but then decided it wasn’t quite big enough for the big 3-0. I did a little research on flights to Paris and found some via Icelandair for $600 per person round trip and got Joe on board. We found an affordable Airbnb (the studio we stayed in is here) and suddenly my dream…
Ever since reading Amy Thomas’s Paris, My Sweet, I have been obsessed with French memoirs. Before that book I had no idea I would be so interested in part of the non-fiction genre. Not all of these are non-fiction, but I wanted to share a few of the Frenchy books that I have enjoyed reading the most. For a more comprehensive list, I have a Goodreads shelf of all the “French” books I’ve read. 1. Seven Letters from Paris. This memoir made…