Paris Readers Circle 2024
The Paris Readers Circle 2024
In 2023 our members received over $15,000 of just published titles–fiction, non-fiction, cuisine and cinema. In 2024 I have expanded our offerings and you can expect a significant increase in the number of weekly drawings.
But you can't win if you don't join, so please join or renew today and receive the 2024 edition of THE OFFICIAL PARIS READERS CIRCLE mug.
I love my membership in the Paris Readers Circle!
What a bargain! I have already received much more in value than the nominal membership fee, and the books I have received have been excellent. More importantly, my membership has permitted me to continue my vicarious expat wannabe adventures from home. Thanks for this opportunity and keep the books coming. À bientôt! –
Bobby Stepp, Columbia, SC
What are you reading?
Exceptional book, North Woods by Daniel Mason!-Bill Rude, Larkspur, CA–I agree!-Terrance
Terrance, Thinking of you as I finally had time to start the book you gave me....APRIL IN SPAIN.It's so good! Not the sort of book I'd usually buy but I really like it and wanted to thank youfor introducing me to John Banville. I will look out for him and his work from now on!-Clarissa McNair, Palermo, Italy
Let me know at Terrance@paris-expat.com
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Learn more and buy NORTH WOODS
Coming soon the 2024 PARIS READERS CIRCLE salons at the Hotel Madison in Paris
Join us for an intimate conversation with well-known authors over a glass or more of wine
Recent guests have been Martin Walker, Pat McGilligan and John Baxter
If you are an author or publisher contact me at Terrance@ Paris-expat.com and let's plan an event.
The First Blockbuster of the Year
5 Paris Readers Circle members will be selected to win a copy
What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all?
We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep?
Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive--and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, Anna's condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as "resignation syndrome.
Review by Patsy DIEKMANN
Anna O is a book that will keep you up at night: The first night because you cannot put it down; the next night because you cannot get it out of your head. It is a psychological thriller centered on a young woman who apparently murders her two best friends while they are sleeping, types a one line confession and then falls into a deep sleep from which no one can wake her. A highly publicized mystery the tabloids styled “Sleeping Beauty,” it comes to attention again four years later when the authorities hire Dr. Benjamin Prince, a sleep disorder specialist, to try to wake her so she can be tried for murder. Sounds simple. Instead the drama that unfolds is complex.The people involved, included the medical staff as well as family members all turn out to have connections to and among each other that no one would suspect, dating back years, and entwined with mysterious deaths years ago. The story is told primarily, but not solely, from Ben’s point of view. The truth of what actually happened, Anna’s memories and dreams, and those of others are only slowly revealed. It is a book in which there are few clues to help you guess where you are being led. A fascinating read, and a very interesting education on “resignation syndrome”. The denouement is complicated, and impossible to predict.
5 Paris Readers Circle members will win a copy
Ellen has just moved into her dream home, about to be fully renovated, with her husband, a teenage daughter and twin toddlers. She is an English teacher looking for a new job, and getting to know her neighbors. Out of nowhere she receives a note in the mail: PEOPLE HAVE TO LEARN THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES. She is shocked, puzzled, and not a little concerned. The story that follows is puzzling and compelling. As it unfolds, each person around Ellen seems a little more strange, a little less trustworthy, and a little more suspicious, not only to Ellen, but of her. She begins questioning several actions she has taken which may have left a searing mark on another person’s life, while her own life starts to fall apart. Altogether a book well worth reading for suspense and entertainment.–Patsy DIEKMANN, Tiburon, CA
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Terrance Gelenter is a man with a rare and splendid mix of passion and purpose who has the qualities of a Renaissance mind as well as a highly engaging, energetic and affable sensibility combined with impressive curiosity and erudition.He is always professional and delightful as a writer, journalist, film critic and interviewer and he can be counted on for excellence in any endeavor he is involved in or part of. I’ve known him for decades and still do I marvel!
–Michael Krasny, Host of GREY MATTER and long-time host of KQED’s FORUM
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Being an eternal night owl, I frequently find myself scrolling through emails as your newsletter is hot off the press in Paris around 1:00am CA time. Thank you, Terrance, for your diligent research and skillful writing which provides the connection for us Francophiles to live vicariously through your stories and adventures.
…..And hopefully all of your readers will appreciate your prodigious effort enough to ante up the nominal membership fee and or make a more significant contribution. You truly deserve it!
Ann Reeves
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I will be away on January 14
Next Gathering January 21
10:30AM-12PM
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people. Barbara Keeney,Paris
Great get together, new friendships were made. It's a mitzvah! Greta Alexander, SF Bay Area
A Paris tradition-Jim Bitterman, CNN