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45. American Fuji. Nov. 2009
46. La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith. December, 2009
47. Family Album by Penelope Lively. December 10,2009
42. Cocaine Blues (A Phryne Fisher Mystery #1) by Kerry Greenwood. November 20, 2009.
43. A Thief's Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan. November 26, 2009.
44. Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers. November 27, 2009.
35. Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs by Jeremy Mercer October 7,2009.This book is about Shakespeare and Co. One of the world's most famous bookshops in Paris. It has a fascinating history all its own apart from the famous writers and poets who patronized it.
This story is about a young journalist who is exiled from his Canadian home. Finding himself in Paris, short on funds and nowhere to go he is made aquainted with a bookshop that allows writers to sleep there.
QUOTE: When I'd arrived, Shakespeare & Co. appeared the answer to all my problems. A place to recuperate, time to calculate my next steps, an assortment of lost folks to camouflage my own disenchantments.
In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables at the cafes...That night, among new friends and safe at Shakespeare & Co., I felt it too. Hope is a most beautiful drug.
I bought this book on a trip to London. I don't know if it is available here.
25. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout-This is an awfully good book. Well written it seems the words just flow over you and through you. I have to stop every now and then just to absorb the way a sentence was written it was so eloquently done. Sometimes I have to contemplate the detail of the narrative. Why was it important to include this? Or why would you add this to an already absorbing story? I could not imagine being able to ever write like this. I would like to think I could but no. The characterizations are good but it is the writing that brings it to life. I even got up at 2:10a.m. to read another chapter.
