Paris – Robert Raymond’s Blogtorium

March 15, 2020

The Little Paris Bookshop (Review)

ot this one for the wife a Christmas or so ago, a little romance chick-licky story about a fifty-year old somewhat sexy but inwardly dead guy who sells books from a boat on the Seine River in Paris, who lives a zombie life, who has an empty room in his apartment he hasn’t gone into, and who gave a table from said room to his sexy but equally extinguished female neighbor which came from that reluctantly breached room, and who forgot about the letter in the table from the woman who broke his heart and left twenty years past. Yes, […]

July 12, 2026

The Last Days of New Paris (Review)

his was the first Audible book I’d listened to after a friend cut through my quibbling about a coming car trip and bought me a Fire. Anyway, I had to test it out so I pulled down a couple of titles that looked interesting, including this one from a favorite author, China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris. And I pretty much listened to the first section about a dozen times, trying this setting and realizing that listening in a car would be impractical (road noise) unless I came up with a solution. So fix it I did, and since I […]