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Eurostorm
Pages
326
Author
Payne Harrison
Published
2010
Date
Tags
fiction, espionage, france, london, paris

“i belong to a facebook group called spybrary , which is for people who like spy novels and movies and such. Another member of the group is a guy named Payne Harrison , who I came to understand is a spy novelist. He had mentioned that he was annoyed at a movie called SAS: Red Notice because the…”

The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Pages
370
Author
Elaine Sciolino
Published
2019
Date
Tags
paris, france, geography, travel, history

“This is a wonderful book, more for the format than the topic. First, the topic – it’s about a river. The Seine starts in southern France and flow northward through Paris to the English Channel. The book is all about this river. (I wasn’t actually interested in the topic, but there was a ‘Buy Two,…”

All the Light We Cannot See
Pages
531
Author
Anthony Doerr
Published
2014
Date
Tags
fiction, world-war-two, history, france, paris

“Shockingly good novel that will make for an Oscar-winning movie one day. It follows three separate narrative threads during World War II – a young radio operator in Hitler’s army, a blind girl forced out of Paris by the Germans, and a Nazi officer with terminal cancer – as they slowly, inevitably…”