Good books about Paris according to a local bookseller

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone!

This week it's Penelope Fletcher, who runs The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop in Paris.

If you want to find the shop, it's at 9 Rue de Médicis, 75006.

Here are all the books that Penelope mentioned, in order:

Books for adults

Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa'xaid, by Cecil Paul.

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway.

Selected Letters, by Madame De Sevigne.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein.

The Flight Portfolio, by Julie Orringer.

Almost French, by Sarah Turnbull.

Circe, by Madeline Miller.

Walking on the Ceiling, by Aysegül Savas.

Demystifying the French, by Janet Hulstrand.

Books for children

Paris Chien, Adventures of an Expat Dog, by Jackie Clark.

Marielle in Paris, by Maxine Schur.

I'm sure you can find these and more at The Red Wheelbarrow. Check out the site here.

Support the Earful Tower on Patreon here for more info on events like the coffee tasting mentioned in today's episode.

And a grand merci to Fat Tire Tours, who are offering a ten percent discount on worldwide tours if you use the code word Earful at the checkout. Find out more here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, it's a Thursday in Paris and it is swelteringly hot. It is 42 degrees Celsius,
0:07.0	109 degrees Fahrenheit. And if you walk around the city like I did today, you'll see that all of
0:12.8	Paris looks like that Salvador-Darly painting. You know the one with all the clocks that are melted?
0:17.7	That is the city today. But listen here, it's a Thursday in Paris, and that
0:21.9	means that this episode you're about to listen to is only possible because of fat tire tours,
0:26.8	the sponsor of the Thursday episode. If you use the code word earful when you book any of their
0:32.0	bike, segue, walking tours, and much more around Paris, they'll give you a 10% discount.
0:38.3	So when you get to the checkout, put it in in the bottom left corner, 10% off.
0:42.2	Do it, let them know that this partnership for summer is working and, yeah, enjoy a tour
0:47.1	of the city.
0:47.9	But I'll talk about them at the end of the episode.
0:50.0	What I want to explain now is what you're about to listen to. It's Penelope Fletcher, a Canadian woman who has lived in Paris for quite a long time indeed,
0:58.6	and she runs the Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop, which is right next to the Jardin du Luxembourg.
1:04.3	So next time you're in the 6th hour on this month, go and check out her bookshop.
1:08.8	And if you're looking for tips, she mentions, I think, 12 books during
1:13.1	this podcast. I've written them all down. They're in the show notes below, but I'm also going to put
1:17.3	them on the earfultower.com with information about how to find the bookshop too. So here it comes.
1:22.0	Penelope from the Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop and hang around at the end of the episode where I'll tell you a little bit more about fat tire tours, but also I'll read an email from one of you listeners.
1:30.8	That's right, a little bit of Gmail.
1:32.8	Let's get into it before we melt.
1:34.3	Oh yes, one more thing.
1:35.5	If you are ever in Paris in a heat wave and you're struggling as most of the city is doing right now, you can do exactly what I'm doing.
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