It’s time to wrap up the Paris In July challenge. I managed to write a couple of posts for the challenge and best of all I did read one book set in the City of Light. As I mentioned in my previous post Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris was sweet and I look forward to continuing with Mrs. Harris’s adventures another time as there are three more novellas featuring the dear Mrs. Harris.
I was hoping to finish another book set in Paris but I’m only about half-way through Le Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-François Parot. This book is about a young detective set in Paris in 1761. Here’s the Paris Nicolas encounters:
“The Paris he was returning to was one he had never seen before. Despite the weather and the lateness of the hour, a wave of madness was engulfing the whole city. He was straight away surrounded, jostled, overwhelmed and taunted by the groups of yelling revellers. Laughing beneath their masks, they cavorted around and got up to all sorts of mischief.”
You can just feel the excitement can’t you? I’ve read some mixed reviews of this book but I’m really enjoying it. I like the descriptions in particular so I look forward to seeing what happens with Nicolas Le Floch.
A big thank you to Tamara from Thyme For Tea and Karen from BookBath for hosting this very fun challenge.
As far as other reads go, I’m still reading Accidents Happen and The Rules of Engagement. I’ve been reading these books for ages! While I love having various books going on sometimes I do feel like I can’t make any progress. I would love to add another book to my mix but I think my reading goal is to finish at least one of these before I add another book. Wish me luck!
Oh and last but not least, don’t forget to enter the giveaway for The Girl You Left Behind. I’m doing the drawing tomorrow!
I always have at least two books in progress, but if one is slow, I usually add another. I can read several fiction books before finishing a nonfiction, which doesn’t mean that the nonfiction is not the better book…just slower.
jenclair – I’m the same way! nonfiction usually takes me longer to get through. I like to have several books going on but for some reason these are really taking me so long to finish. Hopefully I can finish at least one this weekend!
I read the Parot last year or the year before (?) and enjoyed it very much. It was slow going for me as there is so much detail–I know what you mean by the mixed reviews–I think you either really love historical fiction or not so much and if you don’t go in for all the historical detail it might not be such a fun read. I thought of reading the second book this summer for the Paris reading month, but I knew I would never manage it in just a few weeks–and as it turns out I am still reading my Paris books, so I guess I will continue on into August! 🙂
Ack! Really? Where did July disappear to? I was actually considering this annual challenge, but next thing I knew, it was the end of July. 🙂
Danielle – I really like this and such a different detective that I’m used to! It is slow going but I don’t mind because some of the historical detail is so interesting. I think there are three books in the series now! Maybe I’ll revisit next Paris in July 🙂
Les in NE – I know right? I’m like slow down the time please… well at least one the weekends. The work day can rush by 🙂