here’s allllll the books i read (or pulled from the TBR cabinet & thought about reading) from june 2023! {four videos with bookshop.org links to all titles for your literary exploring needs!} :D
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on me being desperate to see & juliet on broadway (& the rest of my current must-see wishlist)… plus two thoughts about aaron sorkin’s to kill a mockingbird.
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it’s not pre-paris research anymore, but i’m still watching movies set in paris! or made by french people! with singing and dancing and various levels of sorta-happy. :)
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if a book was written about your life, what would the title be? or, how generous experienced authors are to awe-struck fangirls like me.
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all five episodes of may 2023’s weekly reading book reviews! (with nifty shopping links to bookshop.org!)
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free merMAY coloring page, when you take a bear to paris, and “twoooo wuv….!”
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expectations (via media) and the overwhelming inspiration actually there… plus a BIG thanks to MAC!
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here are all four episodes of april 2023’s weekly reading book reviews! (complete with links to bookshop.org for recs & future TBRs!)
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alternate title: “i’m sorry for what i said when i was awkward.”
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on bucket lists. art that outlives us. and finding bravery to create when we’re scared…
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here to paris and back again, we captured three weekly reading book reviews this march! here we go with the recs and ever-growing TBR…!
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in which we visit the neighborhoods of paris in short films, in couture fashion of the 1960’s, and talk to hitchcock through a famous new wave auteur.
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our (possibly) penultimate blog post on this topic (my library is a treasure trove of films, what can i say?!)… we’ll talk about play time (jacques tatis, 1967), daddy long legs (1955), and paris can wait (2016!)
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here’s all the books (& nifty links to learn more!) i read in february 2023!
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in this installment: moulin rouge, jean cocteau’s la belle et la bête, chistophe gans’ beauty and the beast, and gigi! i plan on one more blog on titles before i go, so let me know what essentials i’m missing in the comments! :D
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indulging in things (books, movies, tv) set in paris in anticipation of next month’s art & writing trip!
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all five episodes of my weekly reading book review for the month of january 2023!
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in which i continue to watch as many “french” movies as I can before i go to paris in march. part two… covered in this post: forget paris (1995), the red balloon (1956), sabrina (1954), eloise in paris (1957), hugo (book 2007; movie 2011), funny face (1957)
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join me as i travel through french books and cinema (american-made and french-made) in media preparation for my author-research-writing-illustrating trip in march!
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a conversation with three shakespeare rockstars, and a version of [queen] pericles at greenville fine arts center.
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