Belle, Book, and Candle

Here I am almost to the end of my July spent in Paris. Although it has been quite an experience writing, reading, eating, and watching a...

Ah. Another movie featuring the streets and sights of Paris. Paris je t'aime is a film made up of 18, five-minute stories set in d...

I finished the final chapters of Paris Was A Woman by Andrea Weiss. Here are the stories of the female friends and lovers, writers and art...

I am so surprised at how fun it is reading  The Three Musketeers . There are many more stolen kisses, lost letters, intrigues, adventures an...

Since my flower garden is fried from the heat, I thought I would post some healthy flower photos that I took in Monet's garden at Givern...

Another chance to highlight what makes Paris so wonderful - Art is Everywhere. Standing Woman Gaston Lachaise 1932 Tuileries Gardens...

A lovely passage from The Three Musketeers that explains how we sometimes get from here to there: Nothing makes time pass more quickly...

King Louis XVI With one week left in the Paris in July event, I thought that today we would have a little history lesson. King Louis...

 Place d'Etoile Six in Paris is a New Wave film that features six short episodes by six different directors. Each story takes pl...

David Sedaris This morning I did finish reading the reflections of the male writers on Paris in Paris Was Ours . The best of course wa...

I have had another lovely Frenchy day. I began with a cup of coffee and the first chapters of The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. ...

 La Tour Eiffel la nuit. If I were in Paris right now it would be 11:30 in the night and only 61 degrees. As it is, I am not in Paris,...

My dear Inspector Maigret has taken the train from Paris to the Antibes to investigate the stabbing death of one William Brown. Brown li...

The naked body of multimillion-aire Colonel Ward has been found in the bathtub of his suite at the ritzy Hotel George V. The next day, hi...

Romaine Duris and Juliette Binoche star in Paris Here I sit in a café composing this post. I felt it might be fun to do so. Something d...

Here is a book I have had on my shelf for ages. It's copyright is 1995 and I received it as a birthday gift that year. I had been to...

To celebrate La Fête Nationale, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, I splurged and enjoyed this croissant for breakfast...

Georges Simenon creator of Inspector Jules Maigret I have now returned three mysteries unread to the library that take place in Paris. ...

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald The Scapegoat by Daniel Pennac was a disappointment. I gave up after just a couple of chapter...

I had fun yesterday nosing around my library's e-book collection for French mysteries. I came across a series by Cara Black starring...