Tag: bookreview
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![[Discussion Post] Can You Run A Book Blog With No Book Reviews?](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/img_5300.jpg?w=1024)
[Discussion Post] Can You Run A Book Blog With No Book Reviews?
I have read that question in a post lately and it made me think: what is a book blog? What makes a book blog a proper one? To me, it has always been “a blog which refers to books”, but is it really enough to talk about books? Do you need to talk only about…
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![[ARC] The House on the Lake | La Maison sur le Lac ♡ Holly Hill Mangin](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/img_5399.jpg?w=1024)
[ARC] The House on the Lake | La Maison sur le Lac ♡ Holly Hill Mangin
Holly Hill Mangin contacted me a few weeks ago to share her book with me. First written in English (you can find it here), it has then been translated into French as it is the author’s second language. She asked me to read the French version, which is what I did. As surprising as it…
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3 Unique Ways to Organize Your Books in a Small Apartment
I published a post lately on ways you can organize books on your shelves and you seem to have really liked it. In that particular post, I offered to write another post about extra ways you can organize books elsewhere than on a shelf and today, I want to share my tips with you. It…
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What Makes a Good Librarian? 5 Qualities You Might Want to Have
As some of you may know, I have been a librarian for 6 months, I now work in the tourism industry and I might go back to the library in the Fall. Thus, I have gained a (very) tiny experience in the field of library science and I think that I now have an idea…
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![[Discussion Post] Do You Declutter Books?](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_4431.jpg?w=1024)
[Discussion Post] Do You Declutter Books?
As a minimalist, this is THE billion dollar question: do you declutter your books? Short answer: no, I don’t. Thus, am I still a minimalist? And why do I make this choice? Do other people act the way I do? Lets open the discussion!
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![[ARC] Henry – The Goose Who Got To Love ♡ Amadeus Vultznick.](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/img_4833.jpg?w=1024)
[ARC] Henry – The Goose Who Got To Love ♡ Amadeus Vultznick.
I got contacted in the beginning of the month by an author of children’s books asking me to review his novella (around 60 pages). As I was still in my now famous reading rut, I was far too happy to accept: it felt like the perfect opportunity to read somehting cool (you know my love…
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3 Book Reviews in 1: 3 of my favorite Middle Grades reviewed!
I always feel quite bad when I create a post for only one review. Obviously, when I share an in-depth review, that is not the case but whenever I just give an insight about a book and few thoughts, I feel like I am fooling you! Some of you have asked so here is the…
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ♡ Lewis Carroll (Bilingual version)
It was my first time actually reading this book. As a children’s literature grad student, such a shame, right? But I absolutely wanted to take the time to be ready for it. A tale of language There are thousands of things I would want to say about this book, it would be too long for…
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![[ARC] Behind The Red Door ♡ Louise Claire Johnson](https://theenglishspeakingfrenchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/img_3674.jpg?w=1024)
[ARC] Behind The Red Door ♡ Louise Claire Johnson
It took me a little while (around three weeks) to finish this book as I was going though hard times. Nonetheless, I think it was precisely the best time to pick it up as it gave me the life advice I needed the most. Where do I start? Maybe with the core topic: Elizabeth Arden.…
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Convenience Store Woman ♡ Sayaka Murata
I do not even know where to start; it had been years since I had last been ready to cry for a book. Wow! For those of you who have never heard of the plot, let me give a very short summary: our main character is working part-time in a convenience store and does not…
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