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Colourful illustration of a cobbled Parisian street in pinks, greens, yellows and blues, with a white couple kissing in the right foreground
April 7, 2026

REVIEW: The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / disability / family / NetGalley / Paris11 Comments

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Dear Kate Clayborn, I knew as soon as I started reading The Paris Match I would be in for a treat. Nothing about that feeling changed as I continued to read. It is a beautifully written, evocative and deeply romantic novel.  Layla Bailey is a doctor, a hospitalist, who travels ... more >

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May 17, 2025

“We’re All Going to Go Sometime” Reading List by Jayne

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / ancient-greece / ancient-Rome / death / funeral / Middle East / Paris / Reading lists6 Comments

What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife by Robert Garland An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from them A lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating death-related ... more >

April 20, 2025

REVIEW: Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum by Elaine Sciolino

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArt / art history / museum / museum exhibits / non-fiction / Paris9 Comments

A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation. The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical ... more >

November 20, 2024

REVIEW: V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewslaw / non-fiction / Paris / True CrimeComments Off on REVIEW: V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the Île de la Cité in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and complex trial in French history—featuring twenty ... more >

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July 18, 2024

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JayneA- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsADHD / ancient-Egypt / archeology / cats / forensics / graphic novels / History / non-fiction / Paris / photography / PTSD / Reading lists / Tudor-England6 Comments

Ancient Egypt: A Photographic History by Nigel Fletcher-Jones First appearing around the mighty River Nile in the fourth millennium BC, Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization. Egyptian culture developed around a complex system of religious rituals tied to the agricultural seasons, with the pharaoh a ... more >

April 12, 2024

REVIEW: I Don’t Really Need You: A very French romantic comedy by Marie Vareille

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAlternate POV / chick-lit / Contemporary / Diary / France / ParisComments Off on REVIEW: I Don’t Really Need You: A very French romantic comedy by Marie Vareille

The best selling romance by France’s answer to Sophie Kinsella finally available in English Chloe is the perfect Parisian: she’s too skinny, smokes too much, and drinks too much. She also has the bad habit of getting into toxic relationships, particularly with her ex Guillaume who is engaged to another ... more >

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