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“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream.”
― Pond
― Pond
“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish,” he wrote. “His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we take a stroll through the streets. —HENRY MILLER ON LIVING IN PARIS”
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
― The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
“Does anyone really think that French teenagers, per the academy’s diktat, are going to trade out sexting for sending textos pornographiques? It’s”
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
“On the plane I had read about a barber taken hostage in Paris, and felt a surge of darkly amused pride. “I’m going to be sixty-five the 22nd of December, I’m about to retire, I don’t want to die with a bullet to the head!” he’d told his captors, according to the news report. “Also, I would prefer that we didn’t tutoyer each other, given my age.” •”
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
― When in French: Love in a Second Language
Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Christopher’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
128 books
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1,834 books
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46 friends
107 books
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27 friends
238 books
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223 friends
498 books
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233 friends
821 books
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71 friends
320 books
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13 friends
61 books
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88 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, and Travel
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