Summer reading for Francophiles

View from the Centre Pompidou's external escalator.

This is the time of year when book reviewers traditionally publish lists of suggested books to take along on summer vacation. These usually are a mixture of mystery and romance novels, with perhaps a light biography thrown in. The link below takes you to a different kind of list; a dozen books that range from the current - Elaine Sciolino's "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life" - to the historic in David McCullough's "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris," which chronicles the experiences of Americans in the City of Light 100 years before the more familiar ex-pats Hemingway and friends.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/06/a-summers-worth-of-french-reading.html