Abbey Bookshop, a great left bank bookshop option

The Canadian Option It took me way too long to blog about The Abbey Bookshop. Being Canadian myself and considering my very poor French language skills, this bookshop fits the bill for me. A Canadian founded this bookshop. Brian Spence, a…

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Provence, France and The Writings of Peter Mayle

Provence, Chateauneuf du Pape Peter Mayle’s Provence, well, you can take the book out of the countryside but you can bring it back too. I haven’t read a Peter Mayle book for quite a while. It only took 25 pages into…

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Paula Hawkins novel, The Girl On The Train

The Train – The Girl While Paula Hawkins’ girl was not on the train pictured below, I’m sure there were many  girls who had traveled on that vintage train. In addition, she had me reading my second ‘Girl’ titled book…

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Gone Girl novel causes Fireworks display

Gone Girl So it took me a little while to read Gone Girl. My motivation, my wife wants to see the movie and although neither of us are big movie people, if we are going to see a movie based…

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Mayfair Towers excerpt from a Scot Fin novel

Ralph and the Girl From Mayfair Towers page can be found here. Ralph and the Girl From Mayfair Towers excerpt   I was picked up by the current and I let it take me.  I didn’t have a destination in…

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