Yesterday I told our local bookseller I wanted to start reading in French. Could he recommend something easy and short, perhaps chick lit or kids’ books? Any bilingual editions, I asked? The answer to that last question was mighty convoluted–j’ai pas compris! Not an auspicious beginning.
He mused and murmured and wandered around the shop.
Ah, he says, finally.
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Le Petit Prince!
Bonne idée! I replied. Since I already know the story!
But he wasn’t finished.
Back to books for grown-ups.
He pulled a book off the shelf. Here you go!
CAMUS????? I must have looked alarmed.
The language is not difficult, he said.
Lordy, I thought. Some of the ideas are . . . too complicated for words.
Alors, on y va!
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Stumbled across a fascinating TV show this morning, Escape to the Chateau. English couple spends life savings on a 45-room abandoned, dilapidated chateau in the Loire. For GBP 390,000! Which left them exactly 20,000 pounds for the renovation. It was so absurd I couldn’t believe it was real, but apparently so. Must find other episodes.
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