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I placed two books on hold at the library and they both arrived on the same day.  So hard to decide which I'll read first... Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser, or Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.  Which would you choose?

Just finished reading...

     

I have to thank Jen at The Cottage Nest for recommending The Matchmaker of Perigord, by Julia Stuart.  I just finished it last night and loved it.  It's a charming and humorous story of the eccentric characters who live in a very small rural village in France.  Getting to know each of them was a pleasure, as well as reading all of the detailed descriptions of food from their gardens, pantries, stove-tops and picnic baskets.  The novel's style reminded me of some of my favorite foreign films, such as Babette's Feast, My Life as a Dog, or Cinema Paradiso.  I would love to see this story made into a movie - I'd be one of the first in line.