Les Bookworms
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Between Lost and Found
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're starting Volume 4 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. This week's episode discusses the first chapter of Sodom and Gomorrah which starts off wit...
Turning Over a New Leaf
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re halfway there! This episode celebrates the conclusion of the third volume - Le Côté de Guermantes. We explore the final (and rather humorous...
Eat, drink and be MARRY!
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mangeuses by Lauren Malka was so good it deserved an English episode in addition to the French! The book delves into the role food and eating play in ...
Dévorer le tabou: la révolution à travers l’acte de manger
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dans cet épisode, nous discutons le livre de Lauren Malka – Mangeuses : Histoire de celle qui dévorent, savourent ou se privent a l’excès. Nou...
Searching for Justice: Proust and the Dreyfus Affair
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back on the Proust train. This episode covers the first chapter of Volume 3 - The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes). We focus on the Drey...
Through the Pages of Time
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off 2024 with a BANGER of a book! This week we discuss the Nobel prize winning Annie Ernaux's The Years (Les Années). Spoiler alert - we ...
In Search of Lost Podcasts: Les Bookworms Revival
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're BACK! After a long hiatus, Les Bookworms are back with an episode reflecting on our Proustian journey or lack thereof (spoiler alert...c'mon not...
2 Down 5 to Go: Reflections on Volume II of Proust
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a pull back and pause on the journey of reading the world's longest novel. We've officially completed the first two volumes of In Sear...
A mix of gumption and courage: Paris memoirs
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Les Bookworms Pod features two Paris memoirs that we enjoyed reading: Paris on Air by Oliver Gee and No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commu...
Coming of Age with Proust: Virtues, faults and discovering the self
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Les Bookworms are back for 2023 with an update on Proust! The third check-in covers mainly the second part of Volume II - "À l'ombre des jeunes fille...
PALing around Paris
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Les Bookworms Pod, we chat about two books that have been in our PAL (pile à lire aka TBR) for awhile. Each is written by women wh...
Searching for Proust: Millennial angst and Gilmore Girls
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The second check-in on In Search of Lost Time covers part of the second volume - "À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs" (In the Shadow of Young Girl...
French Classics Book Club
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Les Bookworms take on more classics. This week Helen and Miranda give their takes on three French classics: François le Champi (Georges Sand), Le Pè...
Reading the World's Longest Novel
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a check-in on how the adventure of reading the world's longest novel - In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - is going for each ...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off Season 4 of Les Bookworms Pod by diving straight in to our newest adventure - tackling Marcel Proust. We discuss Alain de Botton's novel "...
Reunited at Last
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What could be a better way to wrap Season 3 of the Les Bookworms Pod than being in the same room for the first time in 3 years? While there is no book...
Beaune-jour Les Bookworms!
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Bookworms head to Burgundy this week to discuss not 1 but 3 books that take us into the heart of this winemaking region. We like our red and white...
Quelle place pour les femmes? - Présentes par Lauren Bastide
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cette semaine est la dernière épisode de notre série politique. Nous discutons le livre « Présentes » par Lauren Bastide (2020) et nou...
French Political Parties - Politics Basics, Part 3
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the French presidential elections just around the corner, this 4-part series covers the basics of the political system. Part 3 - French Political...
French Politics 101 - Politics Basics, Part 2
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the French presidential elections just around the corner, this 4-part series covers the basics of the political system. Part 2 - French Politics ...
What's a Parliamentary System? - Politics Basics, Part 1
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the French presidential elections just around the corner, this 4-part series covers the basics of the political system. Part 1 - What is a Parlia...
To go home or to come back?
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode explores the graphic novel - Le Piano Oriental by Zeina Abirached. She tells a story through imagery and words, weaving together a...
Le français s’apprend, l’anglais s’attrape
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bienvenue au Canada ! Bien que les francophones québécois soient les plus connus, le Canada regorge d’autres groupes francophones comme les franco...
Where in the Francophonie? Chats on bilingualism with a Franco-Ontarian
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How many francophone groups live in Canada? Have you heard of Franco-Ontarian day? This week we answer these questions and more with our special guest...
Expat fiction: Why does everyone write about Paris?
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we break down A Year in the M***e by Stephen Clarke (2006), which was originally published under the pen name Paul West (the protagonist in ...
Banana Girl par Kei Lam
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cette semaine nous introduisons un nouveau genre pour Les Bookworms Pod – la bande dessinée. Cette BD est une autobiographie de Kei Lam qui présen...
What is TAPIF?
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is TAPIF? How does it work? And what books should you read before arriving in France? This episode explores the program that brought us t...
One Year Anniversary of Les Bookworms!
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Coucou! Today marks 1 whole year of Les Bookworms Podcast! We are so proud and humbled by the last year and we have loved sharing our love of books an...
Cooking with Julia Child
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of the bonus series and the final episode of Season 2! We are whipping up a fricassée de poulet (chicken) à l'ancienne from the seminal cookb...
Welcome to Julia Child's Kitchen
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of a bonus series to end Season 2 of the Les Bookworms Pod. We talk about Julia Child, her influence and legacy in French cuisine in North Amer...
Petit Pays par Gaël Faye
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ce roman raconte d'une façon la vie d’un garçon de dix ans et d'une autre façon l’histoire d’Afrique brutalement malmené par l’histoire. C...
Small Country by Gaël Faye
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Small Country by Gael Faye (2016) describes the life of a small boy living in Burundi in a period of relative peace, when his innocence is brutally lo...
Aventure Ambiguë par Cheikh Hamidou Kane
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ce roman explore l’aventure de trouver votre identité, vu par notre héros Samba qui vient d’un pays d'Afrique (basé au Sénégal) mais prend le...
Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This short novel is one of two works by Cheikh Hamidou Kane who has since become a legend of African literature. Similarly to other works we’ve seen...
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal par Aimé Césaire
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aimé Césaire est un poète français, écrivain et politicien qui a écrit “Le cahier d’un retour au pays natal” dans les années 30 quand il ...
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aime Cesaire was a French poet, author, and politician. During his studies in Paris, he started a journal called “L’etudiant noir” with other st...
Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes par Marie Darrieussecq
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ce roman raconte une histoire d’amour entre une française et un Canadien-camouronais. Tandis que leur affaire commence à Hollywood, ils traversent...
Men by Marie Darrieussecq
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a way, this is a modern Hollywood love story that explores culture, identity, race, longing, and rejection. And yet, Darrieussecq weaves a complex ...
Les fantômes du roi Léopold par Adam Hochschild
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Hochschild retrace l’histoire de la colonisation et construction d’un État personnel au monarque blegesur le fleuve Congo. Le roi Léopold I...
Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leopold’s Ghost explores the exploitation and colonization of the Congo Free State by King Leopold of Belgium from inception to the King’s death, ...
L'etranger par Albert Camus
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ce petit roman est assez simple par rapport à l'histoire présentée. On pourrait le lire comme un dernier testament du personnage principal qui s'ap...
The Stranger by Albert Camus
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Stranger has a rather simple plot and reads almost like a last testament in first person prose. In a little over hundred pages, we follow Meursaul...
Le Deuxième Sexe par Simone de Beauvoir
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simone de Beauvoir discuter les points de vue pris sur la femme par plusieurs disciplines academiques. Son chef-d'œuvre est une chronique de l’hist...
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in 1949 as a novel, The Second Sex reads more like a textbook of the history of female oppression, taking on topics ranging from ...
BONUS EPISODE! Introduction to(de) Existentialism (existentialisme) - Bilingual!
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about breaking down existentialism as a philosophy. In this French/English episode, we cover the basic tenants of existentialism t...
French Women Don't Get Fat en français! par Mireille Guiliano
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Entre un mémoire et un livre de santé et bien être, ce livre essaye d’expliquer comment les femmes françaises évitent la culture de régime et ...
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere between self-help, memoir and anthropological study of the relationship French culture has with food and diet, this book aims to explain how...
Les Bookworms celebrate the holidays!
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about Christmas traditions! With the holidays around the corner, we discuss Christmas traditions in our homes: Canada and France! ...
Le Pays des Autres par Leila Slimani
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Une histoire d'amour réaliste entre un soldat marocain et une jeune femme d'Alsace à la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Mathilde déménage au ...
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a realistic love story between a Moroccan soldier and an Alsatian woman beginning at the end of WWII. It follows their life as they create a h...
The New Parisienne par Lindsey Tramuta en francais!
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ce livre est l’ode à la vie parisienne. Lindsey Tramuta décrit comment l’identité de la parisienne évoluait et les représentations stéréoty...
The New Parisienne by Lindsey Tramuta
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This book is an ode to the new Paris which subsequently was the name of Lindsay Tramuta’s first book. She eloquently captures how the narrative of t...
La Chambre de Giovanni par James Baldwin
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ce livre décrit la vie de David, un américain à Paris avec un groupe des amis diverse qu’il n’oserait jamais associé chez lui à Brooklyn. Mai...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This book follows David, an American expat, in Paris as he explores the freedom Paris offers its inhabitants that don’t exist back in his home count...
Le Tour de la France par deux enfants par G. Bruno
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Le roman commence pendant l’occupation de l’Alsace-Lorraine par les Prussiens, et suit deux orphelins qui commence un voyage à Marseille pour tro...
Le Tour de la France par deux enfants in English! By G. Bruno
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prussians have invaded and conquered Alsace-Lorraine and two orphaned boys begin a journey to the South to find their uncle. At each stop along th...
One More Croissant for the Road... en francais! par Felicity Cloake
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ce livre est un travelogue par une écrivaine anglaise – Felicity Cloake. Elle fait un tour de France personnel. Elle passe pas mal du temps toute s...
One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A travelogue of a courageous English food writer who creates and completes a personal Tour de France on her bike while simultaneously discovering, rel...
La Fille de Maggie par Joanna Goodman
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bonjour tout le monde! Cette semaine nous discuterons un roman canadien « La Fille de Maggie » par Joanna Goodman. Ce livre raconte la vie de Ma...
A Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey everyone, it's Les Bookworms! This week on the podcast we are discussing « A Home for Unwanted Girls », a Canadian novel about sacrifice, pr...
Coucou tout le monde! Bienvenue!
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coucou tout le monde, c’est les Bookworms ! Salut - c’est Helen. Je viens d’Indiana aux Etats-Unis, mais j’habite en Europe depuis la fin de m...
Welcome to Les Bookworms!
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Check out our first ever podcast on Les Bookworms Pod! This is the podcast that explores the diversity of the Francophonie - come travel with us throu...