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For your reading pleasure …

August 3, 2013 by Patricia Sands Leave a Comment

If it’s Friday, it must be France …

If you are dreaming of spending time here …

Vieux Port,Nice-PSandPhotos
Vieux Port,Nice-PSandPhotos

Or  here …

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Gourdon-PSandsPhotos

Or here …

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Monte Carlo-PSandsPhotos

Or here …

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VillefrancheSurMer-PSandsPhotos

There’s nothing like a good read to whet your appetite even more:

SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR SOUTH OF FRANCE TRIP ~ Here are some of my favourites 

The Man Who Planted Trees         Jean Giono

A Year In Provence                           Peter Mayle (and any other of his long list

of books set in Provence)

The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers                           Ted Jones

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Grasse-PSandsPhotos

La Séduction: How The French Play

The Game of Life                                 Elaine Sciolino

My Life in France                                 Julia Child, Alex Prud’Homme

Jean De Florette                                    Marcel Pagnol

Manon Of The Springs                        Marcel Pagnol

Tender Is The Night                                 F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Ladies Paradise                              Emile Zola

Loser Takes All (short story)               Graham Greene

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Antibes-PSandsPhotos

Chocolat                                                             Joanne Harris

Seduction: A Novel of Suspense        M.J. Rose

Taking Root in Provence

Anne-Marie Simons

Words In a French Life                                  Kristin Espinasse

The Olive Farm      Carol Drinkwater

Click this Amazon link for a list of Provence Cote d’Azur tour books

Classics                                                                                             

Madame Bovary                    Gustave Flaubert

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Antibes-PSandsPhotos

A Tale of Two Cities               Charles Dickens

Candide                                      Voltaire

Any books written by Victor Hugo

I’ve got more but let’s start with these.

What books about France have you read that we need to know about? Tell me any other titles you would like to see on this list and I will add them faster than you can say “baguette”! Thanks! Merci!

Tour update: Our first women’s tour to the south of France with the Womens Travel Network sold out in a flash so a second has been added from  June 25 to July 5, 2014. Call your BFF and make a plan!  Click here for all the deets! 

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About Patricia Sands

Family, writing and travel are my passions ... okay, and chocolate ... and I'm seldom without a camera. I write women's fiction and keep in touch with readers by a monthly newsletter that also has giveaways and contests. Come and join us by signing up on the right. See you there!

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  1. thephotoseye says

    August 3, 2013 at 8:01 am

    Some wonderful books you have mentioned above. My favorite is My Life in France! A wonderful book written by such an animated personality! She definitely was a pioneer in the early days.

    Reply
    • patriciasands says

      August 4, 2013 at 12:04 am

      I loved that book too and have read it a few times. Child certainly was one of a kind!

      Reply
  2. Kate MacNicol says

    August 3, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    What wonderful photos and I love the book list that goes with them. Thank you Patricia, you never fail to inspire.

    Reply
    • patriciasands says

      August 4, 2013 at 8:39 am

      Thanks for your kind words, Kate. There are some great stories in there whether one is traveling or not!

      Reply
  3. Anne-Marie Simons says

    August 4, 2013 at 12:54 am

    Here’s one of my favorites: “Everybody Was So Young” by Amanda Vaill, about Gerald and Sara Murphy’s life. It plays in part at their Villa America in Cap d’Antibes where they entertained so many artists of the day: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Picasso etc. What a life and what a time!

    Reply
    • patriciasands says

      August 4, 2013 at 8:41 am

      Thank you for that suggestion, Anne-Marie. I will add it to the next list I publish and I’m going to get it to read immediately! Amazon stopped co-operating with me when I was adding the links to this list so I am going to get back to fixing that this morning. I think the message to me was “Go to bed”!

      Reply
  4. lameadventures says

    August 5, 2013 at 12:28 am

    I’ve always rather liked Sartre’s “Nausea” but I would not take offense if you excluded it from your list. I think that would confirm that you’re sane. Lovely pictures.

    Reply
    • patriciasands says

      August 5, 2013 at 10:14 am

      LOL! I have vague memories of that book when I was in my Sartre/existentialist phase, back in the day. The memories are vague for a variety of reasons … ah, the Psychedelic Sixties …

      Reply
  5. filbio says

    August 6, 2013 at 12:28 pm

    Those are beautiful pictures to go along with the books to read. The top few are amazing.

    Reply
  6. Claire 'Word by Word' says

    August 7, 2013 at 10:43 am

    I picked up a wonderful supplement some time ago, reading your way around Provence (it’s in French) to give you when you next visit. I am sure there will be some interesting additions, I am in London currently so I can’t go and have a look at it for you, but very soon, you will have your very own copy!

    However for a contemporary, cosy mystery you can’t beat M.L.Longworth’s Death at the Chateau Bremont, Murder in the Rue Damas and her newly published (in May 2013) Death in the Vinesall set here in Aix-en-Provence. She is a foodie and wine connoisseur (as is Judge Antoine Verlaque), so if you appreciate gastronomic delights, Provence and a cosy mystery, these books offer it all wrapped up in one!

    You can learn more about Longworth’s books on her website here, or read reviews on Goodreads here.

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    • patriciasands says

      August 7, 2013 at 11:51 pm

      Merci, Claire! Longworth’s books sound delicious in a number of ways! I will most definitely add them to the next list and must get down to reading them myself. Thank you for saving the supplement for me. I can’t wait to collect it from you in person in the very near future!

      Reply
  7. Sharon winters says

    August 19, 2013 at 10:24 am

    You might also like the books of Mary-Jane Deeb. They are set in Gasse, Cannes, Nice France. They are mystery books that I think are a fun read. You can get these books from Amazon too.

    Sharon

    Reply

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