La Vie: A year in rural France

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Experience time stand still as you gaze upon the magnificent view of Singapore’s city skyline with glass in hand. How many times can a person loose keys or phones in a three week period, according to this once a week on average.

Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. I read this a year ago and some of the story still stick with me so profoundly; Our Women On The Ground is a collection of essays from female Arab journalists covering world events in the Middle East.I loved Rose’s back story about her family and upbringing (Iranian father and fair skinned blond mother).

I thought the concept was really interesting; on the night she gets engaged to her long-term boyfriend, Dannie awakes to find herself in another apartment with another man. Lauren Parvizi, the author of “La Vie, According to Rose,” has written a provocative, memorable, and heartfelt novel. Founded in 1863, Parisians bought it in sufficient numbers week after week to ensure its survival for over a century. The art heist story line could probably have been left aside in favor of more time with Marine and Marco, but overall this was an enjoyable read about becoming who you want to be and laying aside insecurities and the expectations of others so you can reach for your own happiness.It follows a complex family of daughters, and the story spans several generations, unveiling many secrets and scandals and a few twists too. Indeed the whole book is crammed with symbols, representations, discourses, conjunctures, meanings, remembered festivals, carnivals and rituals that make it read like a translation of a contemporary piece of French ethnology.

He wrote over twenty books, including Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Art Deco, and Art Deco Sculpture as well as monographs on individual artists. John Lewis-Stempel sets off from the UK to the rural far west of France - la France profonde - where he and his wife settle to a farming life in a draughty house with a small menagerie of pets and farm animals and a few acres of vineyards.I found this book so lovely but also so upsetting, I kept comparing it to my own relationship and how I would navigate the events as they unravelled. For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. After calming the terrified animal, Lewis-Stempel leads him back to his field where the cause of the alarm is revealed: a fire salamander, basking in the sunshine. I love reading about the effects on the children of immigrant families - living in two worlds with the highest of expectations to succeed, take care of the family, and the selflessness and sacrifice that is required.