Two years ago this month Jason and I were enjoying France for the first time (but hopefully not the last). See if you can figure out these books set in France.
You have until noon Sunday to submit your answers as a comment. Comment will be hidden until I post the answers. No Googling!
This round will last til August. The person with the most points will win a B&N gift card (total $ based on # of total participants, so please play) and a randomly selected participant will win a fun prize from me.
Have fun and Good Luck! Last week’s Grisham quiz here. Leaderboard and rules here.
1. A concierge and a school girl form an unlikely friendship in this book set in a posh apartment building in Paris. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Jean-Baptiste was born without a body scent, and his search for the perfect scent leads to murder. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
3. This novel that alternates between 1942 Vel’ d Hiv’ and 2002 Paris, illuminating the horrors of the French Jews imprisoned on behalf of the Nazis. Sarah’s Key
(I have some old editions of a few of these that should make it fun)
4. Corked 5. Chocolat 6. Anything Considered 7. A Tale of Two Cities 8. French Lessons 9. The DaVinci Code 10. The Diving Bell & the Butterfly


3. Sara’s Key
5. Chocolat
7. A Tale of Two Cities
9. The DaVinci Code
Can’t think of many this week. Ah well.
40 points is good 🙂
1. Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Perfume
3. Sarah’s Key
30 points to get you on the board 🙂
1. Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
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3. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4. Corked
5.
6.
7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
8. French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
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Thanks for another fun quiz!
60 points 🙂
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
So sad that that’s the only one I know of for sure 😦 Too hard this week for me.
10 points!
What…. no Les Miserables? 😉
I didn’t have it on my shelf!
Yay, I know some of these!!!
1. Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Perfume
5. Chocolat?
7. A Tale of Two Cities
8. French Lessons (I have this one!!!)
9. Da Vinci Code
80 impresssive points!
1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
2. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
3. Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
4.
5. Chocolat, Joanne Harris
6.
7. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
8.
9. Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
10.
60 French points. (don’t worry, they’re worth the same as American ones. for now)
I know 2 out of the 3 here! (I think!)
1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Perfume
3. ????
3 sounds so familiar but I cannot think of the title….
Great quiz….
20 points 🙂
1 The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Perfume
3. Sarah’s Key
4. Corked
5. Chocolat
6. Anything for Dinner?
7. A Tale of Two Cities
8. French Lessons
9. The Da Vinci Code
10. The Tower?
You get half for #6. For some reason your guess made laugh. Maybe it was the question mark 🙂 85 points.
7. A Tale of Two Cities
8. The Da Vinci Code
This was a hard one for me!
20 frenchy points.
Don’t know the answers but they all sound like books I’d like to read.
oh – I didn’t realize that there were 4-10! I thought the book cover photo was to confuse and confound! too funny…
Then it did it’s confounding job, LOL.