What I'm Reading


Reynaert, François (2010) Nos Ancêtres les Gaulois et Autres Fadaises, Fayard.
Our Ancestors the Gauls and Other Twaddle: French History without the Clichés

Émile Zola (1873), Le Ventre de Paris. 
The Belly of Paris, a novel set in the central market of Paris in the mid-19th century. Visually vivid descriptions of the area around Les Halles.

How We Survived: 52 Personal Stories by Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2011),
Museum of Tolerance: Los Angeles.
http://www.childsurvivorsla.org/book_order.html
Poignant stories by members of a Los Angeles group who recount their experiences as children during the Holocaust.

Gopnik, Adam (2011) The Table Comes First, Knopf: New York.

Hummel, Denise Pirrotti (2007) Speak Milk Drink Wine, Universal Consensus.
Type A American family spends three years in Italy in search of that life-enhancing “extra”.  Pirrotti-Hummel subtly weaves important intercultural information through her family stories.