Recommendations of books old and new
Laurent Letellier is a bookseller. He runs a bookshop called Le Cahier Rouge, which could be loosely translated as, The Red Notebook. He has a daughter, an ex-wife, a girlfriend, a best friend that he isn’t quite sure deserves that status anymore, and a life that, while not humdrum, is routine and somewhat boring. He …
Three words come to mind when I think of Antoine Laurain’s books: charming, whimsical, and delightful. Vintage 1954 is no exception. As it says in the blurb, this is a story about time travel, and it is set in the now almost forgotten Paris of the 1950s. Laurain indulges himself and his readers by writing …
This is a charming book, original and unusual. It has wonderful characters, all very different from each other. They’re all grappling with something or the other in their lives. Everything from a problematic boss to a loss of inspiration to an identity crisis to relationship issues. Each of them is living a life that is …
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