when tswift steals your hashtag, you take it personally.

an amazing, bookish day: from earning my summer reading pizza and up to the mountains to meet author rachel griffin & celebrate the release of her latest ya title: bring me your midnight!

hallie bertlingAugust 12, 2023Comment

july reading wrap*up!

behold: all five weekly reading book review episodes from july 2023; complete with links to learn more about the books i chat about! :D

hallie bertlingJuly 31, 2023Comment

france in film: part viii

perhaps the final installment of french (or french-adjacent) films as commented upon by moi! featuring: love in the afternoon, the 400 blows, julie & julia, avenue montaigne, cléo de 5 a 7, and paris when it sizzles!

hallie bertlingJuly 5, 2023Comment

june reading wrap*up!!

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

hallie bertlingJune 30, 2023Comment

shakespeare goes POP & atticus wants lobstah.

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.

hallie bertlingJune 27, 2023Comment

french or french-ish films: post vii

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. :)

hallie bertlingJune 7, 2023Comment

storytelling cues from a rock star {author}: ruta sepetys!

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.

hallie bertlingJune 6, 2023Comment

may reading wrap*up!!

all five episodes of may 2023’s weekly reading book reviews! (with nifty shopping links to bookshop.org!)

hallie bertlingMay 31, 2023Comment

mermaids, teddy bears, and other merry celebrations!

free merMAY coloring page, when you take a bear to paris, and “twoooo wuv….!”

hallie bertlingMay 13, 2023Comment

paris vs. the movies

expectations (via media) and the overwhelming inspiration actually there… plus a BIG thanks to MAC!

hallie bertlingMay 6, 2023Comment

april reading wrap up

here are all four episodes of april 2023’s weekly reading book reviews! (complete with links to bookshop.org for recs & future TBRs!)

hallie bertlingApril 30, 2023

an actor with a pencil/notebook/light-up keyboard.

alternate title: “i’m sorry for what i said when i was awkward.”

hallie bertlingApril 18, 2023Comment

unfinished art. that lasts.

on bucket lists. art that outlives us. and finding bravery to create when we’re scared…

hallie bertlingApril 15, 2023Comment

march reading wrap up!

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…!

hallie bertlingMarch 31, 2023

french media pre*paris blog vi

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.

hallie bertlingMarch 2, 2023Comment

french media pre*paris blog v

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!)

hallie bertlingFebruary 28, 2023Comment

february reading wrap up!!

here’s all the books (& nifty links to learn more!) i read in february 2023!

hallie bertlingFebruary 28, 2023

french media pre*paris blog iv

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

hallie bertlingFebruary 21, 2023Comment