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Les Misérables
Though Michael Phelps‘ of the Chicago Tribune’s one and a half star review diminished my expectations for the film of Les Miserables with Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfield...
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The Paradise
Country girl, Denise Lovette comes to the big city hoping to work for her uncle. His dressmaking business is struggling as the competition from the shining, novel department store The Paradise has...
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From The Writer’s Almanac
It’s the birthday of of writer Émile Zola (books by this author), born in Paris in 1840. His father was an Italian engineer, and he died when Émile was seven, leaving the family to get by on a small...
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Now Reading
I’m now reading and very wrapped up in Emile Zola’s A Ladies’ Paradise, which the Masterpiece The Paradise is based on. Wow! The story’s quite different as it’s set in Paris and Denise’s parents died...
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The Ladies’ Paradise, Au Bonheur des Dames
In November my book club read Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames which Bill Gallagher’s BBC TV series The Paradise was based on. I loved this book! It’s quite a bit different, and darker than the BBC...
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Eugenie Grandet
By Honoré Balzac, Eugenie Grandet had a plot that surprised me. A friend suggested reading and discussing this novel online and I’m glad he did. For most of the book I wondered why it was entitled...
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His Excellency
19th century novelist Zola shows us more of the machinations, betrayals of French politics in his sixth published story in the Rougon-Marquart cycle, Zola depicts the greed, manipulation and ugliness...
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Henri Duchemin and His Shadows
I discovered this book via Literature-Map.com, which predicted I would like Emmanuel Bove’s writing. Boy, was that first prediction right. I’m now going to read more of the books it suggests. A modern...
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Les Misérables, Episode 5
While I like Les Misérables, and the novel’s one of my favorite books, there’s some je nes sais quoi aspect that is missing in this production. Perhaps I can’t help but compare a Les Misérables...
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