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kelliebooksblog
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 2003, William Morrow and Company We2 bookclub rating: Two...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 7, 20213 min read
Le Dernier Hiver du Cid by Jérôme Garcin
2019, Editions Gallimard (The Cid's Last Winter) not available in English Gérard Philipe (1922 - 1959), the brilliant French actor of his...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 19, 20202 min read
L’aube à Birkenau by Simone Veil
with David Teboul 2019, Les Arènes The title translates "Dusk at Birkenau", but no English version seems to be available (although Kindle...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Avocate Irrespectueuse by Gisèle Halimi
2002, 2020, Editions Plon Avocate Irrespectueuse (Disrespectful Lawyer), Not available in English. If you're like my mother was, as soon...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 22, 20202 min read
The Brontë Story by Margaret Lane
1953, William Heinemann Ltd I was entirely fascinated with this biography of the Brontë family focused mainly on Charlotte. Margaret Lane...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 7, 20203 min read
Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success By Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty 2013, The Penguin Press After watching The Last Dance on Netflix...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 7, 20201 min read
In Memory of my Mom
On July 2, 2020 my Mom died. Life goes on, it always does, but everything is different in a sometimes slight but always very real way....
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kelliebooksblog
May 25, 20202 min read
Back to Blog Tea
Hello readers! After a 2-month hiatus during the Covid crisis, my friend Jo welcomed me back to the "office", a room in her house where I...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20204 min read
Paid For by Rachel Moran
2013, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Before we can expect social change, prostitution must be recognised for the abuse that it is. -Rachel...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20202 min read
King Kong Theorie by Virginie Despentes
2006, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle Available in English, King Kong Theory Diane received this book as a birthday present and left it...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 9, 20202 min read
Bouche coussue by Mazarine Pingeot
2005, Editions Julliard, Paris In in another chance encounter, I happened to see this book in a pile at Jo’s house. (Jo is my friend who...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 9, 20204 min read
Le Consentement by Vanessa Springora
2019, Grasset, Paris Worth reading. Jane lent me this book since it was sold out at my local bookstore. She mailed it to me after...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 2, 20204 min read
Le monde selon Amazon by Benoît Berthelot
2019, Le Cherche Midi, Paris (The world according to Amazon). Not available in English. So read on! I bought this book at the Gare du...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20202 min read
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson
2016, Harper I found this book in my daughter’s apartment, peeking out of her roomate's shelf in the room I was borrowing. I hadn’t...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20202 min read
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k by Sarah Knight
2015, Quercus Editions Ltd, London How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20203 min read
Ce que je peux enfin vous dire by Ségolène Royal
2018, Fayard In Ce que je peux enfin vous dire (What I can finally tell you), which I bought in the supermarket over a year ago,...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 27, 20203 min read
“I feel bad for books” inspired by Dylan Rigal
2020, nopublisher A non-book post Yesterday I was talking with Dylan on the phone and he surprised me by saying he’d actually started...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 20, 20202 min read
Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
2013, Scribner France: Zéro Déchet, 2013, Editions des Arènes Bea Johnson is a French woman living in the USA. She and her family have...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 20, 20202 min read
The Female Brain by Dr Louann Brizendine
2006, Morgan Read Books Are men stronger than women? Some say obviously, others say no way! Michelle Wolf in her stand-up on Netflix...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 6, 20205 min read
Idiss by Robert Badinter
2018, Librairie Arthème Fayard Not available in English Welcome to 2020. Here's my first post of the year. Some of my readers wish I...
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