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 Harriet Welty Rochefort,
born and raised in Iowa, is a freelance journalist who has spent more than two decades living in France. She is the author of FRENCH TOAST and FRENCH FRIED.
FRENCH FRIED
is a humorous and witty account of what may be the single greatest difference between Americans and the French: the relationship the two cultures have with food. Read the Bookreporter.com review.
Harriet Welty Rochefort's Summer Reading List
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
by Barbara Kingsolver
I've been hearing about this for quite some time and can't wait to delve into it. After all, what could make better vacation reading than the tale of an evangelical Baptist in the Belgian Congo and a family's "tragic undoing" as the book jacket says.
TALES OF THE CITY
by Armistead Maupin
This is another one I've been hearing about. I like the idea that this comic saga was originally written as a serial. And I like the Oscar Wilde quote in the beginning of the book: "It's an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco."
KISS KISS
by Roald Dahl
Dahl is mostly known as a children's book writer but his short stories have been described as "devious" and "shocking" - I'd like to find out why.
'TIS
by Frank McCourt
I literally couldn't put ANGELA'S ASHES down, losing several nights of precious sleep reading it all the while wondering how anyone could write about the good, the bad and the sad moments of childhood with such distance, love and total recall in such wondrous language; I can't wait to read the sequel to find out "what happened".
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
by Ken Follett
Since I live in France and have always wondered about the people who built the marvelous medieval cathedrals, I'm delighted to sink my teeth into this epic novel of their lives and skills.
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