Paris in July 2026
#ParisinJuly2026
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During this month,
our goal is to embrace and honor our French encounters
by immersing ourselves in various activities
like reading, watching, listening, observing, cooking,
and indulging in all things French!

Bienvenue à Paris !

On this page you will find:

• the widget for you to share your links
• review copies
• giveaways
• our optional BINGO card
• the list of our participants – updated as we go along
• the links to all your posts, classified by category
• Check what participants shared last year if you need inspiration
• Et si vous voulez lire Candide, de Voltaire, notre club de lecture est sur Discord

Here is the widget for all your posts
if you can specify the theme of your post in the title area, that will help:

REVIEW COPIES
click on cover to request your copy

GIVEAWAYS:
click on covers to enter the giveaway starting on the date mentioned

July 14

July 15

BINGO CARD:
Optional
For those who enjoy an additional challenge

There will be other giveaways at the end of the month:
for the 3 top participants
for a BINGO winner
for a random participant

THIS YEAR PARTICIPANTS

Anne: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/
Deb: https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/
Emma: https://wordsandpeace.com
Lisa: https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/
Lisbeth: https://mybookishcorner.substack.com/
Marg: http://www.theintrepidreader.com/
Meredith: https://dolcebellezza.blogspot.com/ 
Tamara: https://thyme-for-tea.blogspot.com/

Paris in July 2025
#ParisinJuly2025
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Click on the logo to access all the links

Our #ParisinJuly2025 event is over!

It was a great success, with 27 participants (24 in 2024), we lost some older participants, but gained a bunch of new ones!
But only 94 posts (129 posts last year).

We had 63 book reviews (65 in 2024).
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris and A Bakery in Paris were reviewed by two of you.
We have two heros this year:
Antoine Laurain (as usual) but also Georges Simenon, with each 5 books reviewed.
Followed by Annie Ernaux and Patrick Modiano, with 2 books reviewed for each.
Lots of ideas of reading to keep you in France until next July!

Besides book reviews, we covered lots of themes (art, food, history, movies, music, sport, travels), including theater, a new one this year (thank you Emma!)
It’s also neat to have several of us combining #ParisinJuly with other memes, like Top Ten Tuesday for instance.

We didn’t have a Zoom meeting this year. No one showed interest, and I didn’t pursue it aggresively, as I had issues with my voice for most of the month.

As the organizer, I’m very surprised about a few things:

1. Several participants didn’t use MrLinky, but instead put the link to their post in a comment. Most memes, for instance the most popular Top Ten Tuesday, do use a MrLinky type system. And the MrLinky widget was almost at the top of the post, so not sure what’s going on here
2. Some bloggers still think it’s just about Paris, even though this event has been going on for years, and we have a very clear “mission statement” at the beginning of the post explaining what this event is all about
3. Some think I just started this, though it’s already the 3rd year I’ve taken over hosting this event which I think started in 2010.
4. Very few people entered the giveaways.
5. Only 1 participant posted her BINGO

So, do you suggest any improvement next year related to these points?

And now to our winners:
I will contact each shortly,
and will also forward your info to the publishers/authors.
Click on the covers to access the giveaway page.
There, if you click on the giveaway widget,
you will see the official widget winners displayed

Karen & Sharon

Anne & Diana

Diana & Jinjer

Anne

We have extra winners:
Marg, Lisbeth, and Fanda, for the most number of entries.
Ewa for the BINGO
Karen @ Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings:
random number generated – #6 (from the MrLinky list)

They will all received an ebook of their choice

Until next July in Paris!

Let me know in a comment
if there’s anything you think
should be edited or added
to make this event  even better