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May Reading Wrap-up


What The Content Reader read in May, 2025

I managed to read 14 books in May, of which nine of them had some kind of connection to Paris. I will not review them here, but will wait until Paris in July. This year I will have a lot of posts covering Paris, since I spent 12 days there in the beginning of May. I don't have to say I had a great time.


Read in May


  1. ​Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon 

  2. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben

  3. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter (NF)

  4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (NF)

  5. Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments for Understanding the French by Stephen Clarke (NF)

  6. Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford (NF)

  7. Before Wisdom: The Early Poems by Paul Verlaine

  8. Le Bal/Snow in Autumn by Irène Némirovsky

  9. Otroliga Historier, Ur vår danska historia by Birgitta Petrén (NF)

  10. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (NF)

  11. Ludvig XIV (Louis XIV) by Andreas Marklund (NF)

  12. Scott Fitzgerald by Andrew Turnbull (NF)

  13. Tid för Lisbeth by Annelie Sylvan

  14. Kvinnan i Paris (A Pregnant Courtesan for the Rake) by Diane Gaston (May)


Apart from the books connected to Paris/France, I read rather easygoing books. It is this time of the year. I managed to get hold of one Donna Leon and one Harlan Corban, always exciting reads. Although this one by Leon was not as good as they usually are.


I read one nonfiction book about the history of the Danish time here in the south of Sweden. Tid för Lisbeth (Time for Lisbeth) was recommended by a book club member, and I though I had to read a book with my name in the title. A modern story of a woman in her sixties whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. It was an easy read, although I was a little bit irritated on Lisbeth from time to time.


All in all, it was an exciting reading month, considering the books I read about Paris. Apart from Hemingway they were all new authors to me. I even managed to put in a poetry book by Paul Verlaine. More about these books in July.


If you are interesting in following me around Paris, I post articles on my visit here - The Content Reader Newsletter.


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