What are we all reading at the moment?

[Laura NY (aoi33)]

And Katherine, you get an exalt for that! Well done!

[geordy]

Has anyone read "The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry" by Kathleen Flinn? It is about her experience at the Cordon Bleu cooking School in Paris. I saw it in a bookstore yesterday and just put on hold at the libes.

[PariS]

I started it awhile back, Geordy, but it got set aside when I got my Kindle and I haven't finished it. I will have to get back it out after my trip and reread it--thanks for the reminder!

[jo]

I'm almost done "Buying a Piece of Paris" by Ellie Nielsen. It details her trials and tribulations about buying an apartment in Paris. It's not helping my addiction to Paris, lol

Hey, Annette, you should write a book too. (BTW, have a great trip)

Jo

[willow]

I've been reading Water for Elephants and absolutely love it!!

[Happygoin]

Just reading Tatiano DeRosnay's new book, A Secret Kept. This is the same author who wrote Sarah's Key. This one is really good too.

As an aside to Denise, the character lives on the rue de Roquette...*your* street!

[geordy]

Part of what I liked about A Secret Kept was "my familiararity " ;Dwith the Paris 'hoods!

[Happygoin]

I agree, geordy. It's always fun when you can picture where the author is taking his/her characters. I loved the Spenser series, which was set in Boston and the NE area for that very reason.

(Plus it's just possible I had a crush on Spenser's sidekick, Hawk )

[cigalechanta]

Always Julia-letters of Julia Child in France to a woman here in Cambridge.

[Happygoin]

Mimi, I have that on reserve at the library. I can't wait to read it. Please tell me you're enjoying it!

[mossie]

May I throw in a real curved ball.
Am now reading a book published in 1957 "Operation Sea Lion" which was Hitlers title for the his proposed 1940 invasion of England. As I lived then some 7 miles from Dover I am very pleased that we frightened him away. However we had started to prepare for it before he even thought seriously about it. I still remember being told "When the Germans come, you boys are to put sugar in their petrol tanks". How an 8 year old was going to manage that we never found out.
The Battle of Britain was of course a neccesary first round as the RAF had to be neutralised before the invasion barges could be towed across the Channel. The carnage that could have resulted from this operation does not bear thinking about. Hitler paralysed the continental canal system because all the barges were taken over and towed up to the Channel ports in preparation. The RAF managed to sink or badly damage about 20% of them before they could be used.
Ah... history.

[Jody]

Thanks Mossie, alays on the lookout for books David would enjoyf ou know ant good WWI ones let me know. Maybe we'll get to seeyou when we are in London next month

[Happygoin]

Not a curve ball at all, Mossie. Is it the one by Peter Fleming? Amazingly enough, it's out of the library now. Someone else is reading it! I'll put it on reserve.

Btw, I do recommend A Secret Kept. Great read! I like deRosnay's writing style a lot.

[denise]

:)According to Amazon" A secret kept" only seems to be available in hardback at the moment. So I will wait.

"The girl who kicked the hornets nest" is my bedside read, but I'm reading Cara Black "murder in the Bastille" on my iphone.....not sure if it is a good idea to read about a serial killer loose in the Bastille area as I love this area now and intend to stay again! LOL!

I am learning about the area of the Bastille. All the artisan furniture makers and little passages.

OHH! wish I was back in rue de la Roquette.....wonder if there are any cheap flights in March?

Denise
Love from England

[ouiparis]

I read WFE on a recent plane ride and loved it. Can't wait for the movie to come out. The last book I read was "Little Bee" which has been on the bestseller's list. It's a moving story and the writer employs some creative devices.

Denise, are you talking about airfare for easy jet and the like? If so, don't they always have good deals?

[denise]

Feb 9, 2011 16:55:08 GMT -5 ouiparis said:

Denise, are you talking about airfare for easy jet and the like? If so, don't they always have good deals?

Hi OUI.....Easyjet and other budget airlines have opened up Europe to ordinary people like me. I look on it as just like getting on a bus. ( although Ryanair just try to get as much money out of people as they can, I recently looked at flights to Nimes and they charged £50 for a 20kg check in bag! AND £5 for CHECK IN!)

I fly Easyjet from Liverpool, because I live in the north of England. Usually I can get a flight to Paris for £50 return or under, but recently Easyjet have cancelled all the early morning flights except Saturday morning putting more pressure on the evening flights.


Consequently the prices have risen. I am paying £70-£80 for the flights I have booked for May and June and my son had paid £115 return for his May flights.

Still cheaper than Eurostar from The north of England


I know you your who pay $500-$1000 for their Paris flights this may seem like I am complaining about nothing.....sorry!

Denise
Love from England

[mossie]

Happy. Yes it is by Peter Fleming, brother to Ian the creator of 007.


And Jody. Yes we must make arrangements to meet in London.

[Happygoin]

Thanks Mossie, for that nugget of info about the Fleming brothers. It's always fun to know stuff like that I have the book on reserve.

[cigalechanta]

Well, I finished the book-BUT-It abruptly stops after Julia returns to the USA to here in Cambridge but doesn't show how they react
finally meeting face to face and how the two couple get along. it ends with her TV shows...bummer!

[Happygoin]

How strange, Mimi...you'd think that the two of them meeting would be an appropriate ending to the book, wouldn't you?