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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
by Anne Sebba
Panoramic View (8/24/2016)
Having just finished and loved Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, I was eager to delve into a historical account of the women of Paris during transition of France at peace to France in war. My disappointment with Sebba's Les Parisiennes stems from its failure to engage memore
One Minus One: Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries
by Ruth Doan MacDougall
Great Expectations....Dashed! (4/11/2013)
I really wanted to love this book. Not just because Ruth Doan MacDougall's One Minus One was praised by Nancy Pearl who has recommended so many of my favorite reads, but because of the nostalgia factor. It takes place in the late 60's when I was a young woman out of collegemore
Paris in Love: A Memoir
by Eloisa James
Falling in love with Paris in Love (4/4/2012)
I began my advance copy of Paris in Love with great anticipation—looking forward to the author’s discovery of my own favorite Parisian bookstores and literary haunts, expecting a slightly more feminine version of Adam Gopnik’s charming Paris to the Moon. But my high hopesmore
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