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Swann's Way | Marcel Proust
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repost for @TheBookHippie

#PROUST2026 Reading Schedule

Let me know if you want to be tagged 🙃

Editions I‘m using https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/SLT/in-search-of-lost-time/

I‘m apprehensive- but I want to read these and I need a 2026 goal 🫣

I‘ll try to post helpful hints as we go, check-ins etc…After each book I will try to have a small discussion as well.

All welcome to join the #BuddyRead.

ImperfectCJ @thebookhippie Please add me to the tag list. My teen would be SO IMPRESSED with me if I read Proust, and your reading schedule makes it seem doable. 35m
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Blueberry
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What I read in November. 😄

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Eggs
Les gratitudes | Delphine Vigan
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours🧡🙏🏻🧡

Ruthiella Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🍽 🦃 2w
Mollyanna Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃 2w
Daisey 🍁 Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 2w
Ddzmini Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 📚 2w
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Lands
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Ruthiella Nice! I‘m hoping to re-read “Cousine Bette” next year. (edited) 3w
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Teresereading
The Earth | Emile Zola
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 🌍 1mo
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Dilara
Letters of a Peruvian Woman | Franoise de Graffigny
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I finished this book this morning. The novel proper is quite short and readable, although I don't think I'll ever really enjoy a work where a writer uses a foreign narrator or character from a culture they don't actually know to further their plots or theories. However, the extra critical material does an excellent job of contextualising this 18th best-seller written by a blue-stocking with proto-feminist sensibilities.

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Serotonin | Michel Houellebecq

I drove a diesel 4kc — I mightn‘t have done much good in my life, but at least I contributed to the destruction of the planet — and I systematically sabotaged the selective recycling system put in place by the residents‘ association by chucking empty wine bottles in the bin meant for paper and packaging, and perishable rubbish in the glass collection bin.

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Dilara
Letters of a Peruvian Woman | Franoise de Graffigny
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I 1st heard of this book when researching #Peru for #FoodAndLit but it wouldn't do b/c it's all about France. It is an 18th-c. epistolary novel written by a French woman. The narrator is an Inca “virgin of the sun“ snatched by Spanish conquistadores, then taken by French soldiers to France. Her letters to her Inca fiancé describe France & its mores from the point of view of an outsider - a “Noble Savage“ - uncorrupted by European civilisation.

Dilara A best-seller in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was then forgotten, like many works by female authors, and rediscovered recently. As it is in the list of books studied for the French 2026 baccalaureate, there are plenty of editions with added commentary and material to choose from! Mine is quite well made for readers who need a lot of hand-holding: each occurrence of a potentially difficult or semi-difficult word is explained. 2mo
Dilara Pic of an aclla, or virgin of the sun, in the public domain from https://short-history.com/the-acllas-inca-women-of-the-sun-2184999efe45 2mo
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