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For this final week of Paris Month, my Swoon-Worthy Sundays post is a double feature. While there are just so many things abut Paris that certainly makes me swoon I couldn’t let this whole month of Paris go by without sharing both of these. This first swoon-worthy item is Taylor Swift’s Begin Again video. Prior [...]
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What better way to enjoy a relaxing birthday than to participate in the bi-annual Dewey’s Readathon! I had participated in 2011 & 2012 October. It’s always a great time, having cheerleaders motivate you along and participating in hourly mini-challenges to win prizes! This year, I’ll probably be participating for most of it – minus the [...]
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Today marks the last weekend of Paris Month for 2013 – as well as my birthday! It’s funny, the older I get the less I care to go out for a big to-do… What am I doing for most of today? What I love to do.. read. So I’m participating in the bi-annual Dewey’s Readathon [...]
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I’ve been making my way through a bunch of the recipes in The Little Paris Kitchen, by Rachel Khoo. There are quite a few involving seafood, which I don’t like/eat so that was easy to skip over. Of the many recipes that I selected to try out, many of them were fairly surprisingly simple. A [...]
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Having Elizabeth Ross join Paris Month this year has been such a joy. Not only did she reach out to me about her debut novel, Belle Epoque, but she’s been so gracious to send me giveaway items and do an interview as well! Be sure to swing by my review of this fabulous YA historical [...]
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I first discovered Norma’s blog My Beautiful Paris via Twitter and immediately became a fan. (The colours of her website are inspired by macarons!) I reached out to her to see if she’d like to participate in this year’s Paris Month and gave me a few options of articles from her site to share. This [...]
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Back in January when I was asking on Twitter about who might be interested in doing some guest posts, Tiffanie @ Mostly YA Lit contacted me with a couple ideas she had – one of them being to tackle making macarons. I had actually thought about doing that as well and so we decided to [...]
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My final Paris Month Waiting on Wednesday is also another double-dose of YA! Two weeks ago, I featured The Beautiful & the Cursed and Belle Epoque (both of which you can win yourselves a copy over on the sidebar here) –> This week is another two highly-anticipated conclusions to two separate trilogies! It’ll certainly be [...]
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I had featured Belle Epoque in a Top 10 Tuesday when the author, Elizabeth Ross, got in touch about it. What great timing, because I was just planning Paris Month at the time and thus came a whole slew of ideas and opportunities. This week will highlight a bit of this fabulous book from the [...]
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While it’s a little early to share a review of this book since it isn’t out until August, I read an advanced e-copy and couldn’t resist sharing it during Paris Month. Coming from a Colombian family in the states, Lita has been granted a year abroad in Paris before committing to the family’s food distribution business. She [...]
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