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Laure was returning home alone late at night when she was mugged, and her mauve bag was snatched. She was later brought to the hospital suffering from a head injury from the attack.
Laurent, a bookseller, finds the mauve bag by a garbage bin the next morning as he's walking to pick up coffee at his favorite Parisian cafe. There's a long line at the police station so he looks through the bag himself to find some clues to the identity of its owner. Laurent opened the mystery woman's red notebook an ...more
Laurent, a bookseller, finds the mauve bag by a garbage bin the next morning as he's walking to pick up coffee at his favorite Parisian cafe. There's a long line at the police station so he looks through the bag himself to find some clues to the identity of its owner. Laurent opened the mystery woman's red notebook an ...more

I was looking for a quick read and stumbled upon The Red Notebook. While it's short and easy to get through it's not fluff - there are beautiful observations and turns of phrase, just enough to keep your brain happy without overload. Many are of the ah-yes-I-know-that sort:
As soon as she stepped inside the door, she was hit by that feeling of coming home after a long time away, when the dust seems to have been blown off things you had become so used to looking at you had stopped seeing them. Eve...more

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