Les Bookworms Bookworms Pod

We're back on the Proust train. This episode covers the first chapter of Volume 3 - The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes). We focus on the Dreyfus Affair and its role in French society at the time of Proust and today.

Kicking off 2024 with a BANGER of a book! This week we discuss the Nobel prize winning Annie Ernaux's The Years (Les Années). Spoiler alert - we loved it. Come listen to a better, more feminist Proustian collective memory exploration.

We're BACK! After a long hiatus, Les Bookworms are back with an episode reflecting on our Proustian journey or lack thereof (spoiler alert...c'mon not really). We also chat some of our favorite books from our break, books we are excited to read and some other literary moments that have sparked joy in the last few months.

In the episode, we reference a new bilingual literary journal - Version Original - which you can order on their website or pick up in several bookstores across Paris.

As always, happy reading! For more from Les Bookworms, check out our Instagram @lesbookwormspod or our ⁠blog⁠.

This episode is a pull back and pause on the journey of reading the world's longest novel. We've officially completed the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. We look at the volume as a whole and discuss a few issues we've had with the text so far. We also discuss why people consider this classic on of the greatest of all times and if we would recommend reading it. Happy reading!

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This week on Les Bookworms Pod features two Paris memoirs that we enjoyed reading: Paris on Air by Oliver Gee and No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin. Two short reads that transport you directly to the heart of Paris. Both stories touch on the experience of living in Paris following the 2015 terrorist attacks, while also navigating personal insights and reflections of the daily experience of life as foreigners in Paris and France in general. We are longtime fans of both and enjoyed reflecting on what about these books spoke to us. 
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Les Bookworms are back for 2023 with an update on Proust! The third check-in covers mainly the second part of Volume II - "À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs" (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower). This section was packed with very interesting and profound ideas on love and the construction of our identities by ourselves and others. No need to have read Proust to listen we give a 30 second recap of everything that is important.

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For our current reads and dose of French living, check out our Instagram: @lesbookwormspod