Café con Leche

I have three weeks to go before baby #2 is born and can't move very easily so I'm catching up on my reading list. This morning I read

"All You Need to Be Impossibly French" by Helena Frith Powell

The book reads like a magazine article puffed up into book length. Some of the chapters are very boring and title is deceiving. From the title you think that you are going to learn to live like a French woman but instead you learn about what French women like such as buying fancy underwear.

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

The book describes how certain types of people (connectors, mavens, and salesmen), and certain circumstances (the law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the power of context), can help turn something like a television show into epidemics. The book has some some interesting examples but overall I found it repetitive.

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La Piel del Cielo by Elena Poniatowska

The book starts off very promising but it slowly deteriorates to the point where I couldn't finish the last 30 pages. A couple years ago I read Hasta no verte, Jesus mio!. by the same author and really enjoyed it.

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Au Paris by Rachel Spencer

It's a quick and entertaining read.

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After months of looking I finally found a new camera bag. My other bag was too small and not very easy to carry around. This new one is an ultra compact messenger bag that fits my camera and two lenses with extra room for a couple more lenses. I also have space for my wallet and cell phone. I've had it for over a month and so far I am extremely happy with it.

This is the old camera bag

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Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

The book is a bit long with over 500 pages but it's engaging. The novel is about a young Korean-American woman, raised by status-conscious immigrant parents in Queens, who falls out with them after she graduates from Princeton. It's well written. I only wish their was a real ending to the novel.

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