#peter mayle

[captaindibbzy]

It is more likely, of course, that the mayor gave the Parisians the standard Provencal response to unanswerable questions or ridiculous demands: the full shrug, which is executed by local experts as follows. A certain amount of limbering-up is required before any major body parts are brought into action, and your first moves should be nothing more than a frown and a slight sideways tilt of the head. These indicate you cannot believe the foolishness, the impertinence or the plain dumb ignorance of what the Parisian has just said to you. There is a short period of silence before the Parisian tries again, repeating his remark and looking at you with some degree of irritation. Maybe he thinks you’re deaf, or Belgian, and therefore confused by his sophisticated accent. Whatever he feels, you now have his complete attention. This is the moment to demolish him and his nonsense with a flowing unhurried series of movements as the full shrug is unfurled. One. The jaw is pushed out as the mouth is turned down. Two. The eyebrows are fully cocked and the head comes forward. Three. The shoulders are raised to ear-lobe level, the elbows tucked into the side, and the hands fanning out with palms facing upwards. Four (optional). You allow a short, infinitely dismissive sound - something between flatulence and a sigh - to escape from your lips before letting the shoulders return to a resting position. It might almost be a yoga exercise, and I must have seen it hundreds of times. It can be used to signify disagreements, disapproval, resignation or contempt, and it effectively terminates any discussion. As far as I know, there is no countershrug, or satisfactory answering gesture. For those reasons, it is an invaluable gesture for anyone like myself whose command of the French language is far from perfect. A well-timed shrug speaks volumes.

Encore Provence by Peter Mayle. The Full Shrug.

#Words #Peter Mayle

[timotey]

They asked one of the peasants what had happened. He shrugged innocently. "Who knows?" he said. "Woodworm?"

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

If you haven't read this book yet, do so. It's HILARIOUS!

#a year in provence #peter mayle #book quotes #quotes #mé

[lunesalsol]

Russell Crowe é um arriscado e importante investidor na bolsa de Londres, até que um regresso a França para herdar a quinta do seu tio faz despertar velhas memórias. 

#2006 #Ridley Scott #albert finney #family drama #winery #finance #peter mayle #usa #united kingdom #russell crowe #remember

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

#THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021) #Margot Robbie #Idris Elba #John Cena #Joel Kinnaman #Sylvester Stallone #Viola Davis #Jai Courtney #Peter Capaldi #David Dastmalchian #Daniela Melchior #Michael Rooker #Alice Braga #Pete Davidson #Starro the Conqueror #Nathan Fillion #Mayling Ng #Pom Klementieff #DC COMICS #DCEU #action film

[fictionadventurer]

Fortnight of Books 2023: Bonus Day 3

A book you struggled with but completed

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle was surprisingly difficult for me to get through. While the stories about adjusting to life in 1980s France were interesting enough, they weren't gripping enough to pull me through the whole book. I started in January, and with a bit of elbow grease, I finally managed to finish at the end of July.

A book that made you laugh

One story in The Voluble Topsy by A.P. Herbert made me laugh harder than almost any book I've ever read. Something about it just really struck my funny bone. I was doubled over and helplessly breathless with laughter for a solid five minutes. (The children! On the escalator! Topsy's complaints before that were amusing enough, but the mental image of that scene was so funny that it left me in hysterics.)

#fortnight of books 2023 #books

[footnoteinhistory]

Tentative summer reading list, subject to changes:

Christopher McDougall, Born to Run

Gerald Clarke, Capote

Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works

Beckett, Three Novels: Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young

Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Joan Lindsey, Picnic at Hanging Rock

Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories

Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Travis Lupick, Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival

Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Diner

Richard Ford, Independence Day

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Adam Mansbach, I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, A Memoir

#this is more for me just to keep track of what I want to get through #please vote for which I should start with bc I CANNOT decide. paralyzed by choices #books #I really did not like The Sportswriter at all. but enough time has passed I’m foolishly subjecting myself to the sequel 😑

[swankpalanquin]

tagged by @duelsong for favorites of 2023! thank you!! (only chose new things, not stuff i reread/rewatched/etc)

books: Metamorphoses - Ovid (for when i felt like i was in a cocoon) The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire - Wayne Koestenbaum (felt very seen reading this) A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle (wanted to eat fancy cheese and bread all day) Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (read it in like one day; very enthralling) Queen's Thief series - Megan Whalen Turner (life changing) various Feluda stories - Satyajit Ray (good mystery adventures) various biographies about Cicero (my blorbo from the end of the roman republic)

movies: The Funeral (1987) dir. Itami Jūzō (captures funeral vibes perfectly) Madadayo (1993) dir. Kurosawa Akira (sweet with long section of cat focused story) Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz (i'd never seen it before this year!) Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai (actually watched this twice this year) Charulata (1964) dir. Satyajit Ray (watched this twice too and bought it on dvd lol maybe my most favorite of the whole year)

albums: the only full album i think i actually listened to this year was javelin by sufjan stevens and for like the month of november and december i listened to it on repeat on cd (which probably says a lot about my mental health during those months)

bonus TV show: finally watched all of the original series star trek!

anyone who sees this can consider themselves tagged!

#thank goodness i have that movies list tag on my blog or i wouldn't remember anything i saw this year lol #i like doing these sort of year end recaps

[flowers-of-io]

Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Japsen is such a morbidly funny song for me because when it came out 10 years ago I was on a school trip and I remember everyone playing it from their crappy phones, I remember sitting under a wall or alone in the room or on the bleachers when other kids were playing basketball, or crying my eyes out to a teacher. And I hated this song for so long, I loathed it, I couldn’t stand even the first few chords because it all took me back to that trip when I was the lonely bullied kid who only had her stories and Peter Mayle’s A Dog’s Life to read through tears when a roommate had yelled at me. I could feel the knots tie in my stomach! It’s interesting how everyone’s voices become so loud yet garbled and unintelligible when you’re stressed. I always sat alone on the bus. I remember hiding behind the small curtain and singing quietly to myself, and I think they laughed about that quirk of mine, too.

And now I’m 21 and I’m in a coffee shop writing when I hear it again; I just failed a subject at uni, I just replied to 7 ao3 comments because my stories are worthy of praise, I have low functioning anxiety, I have a job, I have friends!! I have money to spend on coffee, I have my stories, I’m unhappy and stressed. And the past looks so golden in my eyes, through this lens of time and generous oblivion, and the song doesn’t really bother me (I look at it with fondness, maybe, like at an old jagged scar that curves into a fun shape), I feel the phantom tightness of that knot in my stomach but I also feel nostalgia. And I’m wondering whom I’d rather be, that bullied kid who was still, against all odds, happy, or the sad adult who puts fun in dysfunctional and has friends she’s too anxious to talk to, and I’m thinking that I maybe still am that happy bullied girl, maybe I still haven’t lost all the yellow joy of being her. I didn’t expect to grow into what I’m now, then. I’m glad about who I am. I’m furious about who I am.

#why am i making personal posts? the answer is dear friends because i’m unable to shut up #sorry in advance i’m just like that #personal

[emozparole-blog]

Perdona le mie labbra.. Trovano la gioia nei posti più inaspettati...

Peter Mayle

[lupismaris]

Remembered the joy that is audiobooks (ones that i can't recite from memory) so this Monday through Friday from hell is ending with Peter Mayle's Provence, 🍃, and wine in the garden

#jamie rambles

[theglamoursauce]

A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence #SecondLife #SLBN #Metaverse #AYearInProvence

In the early late 80s there was a best selling book called a Year in Provence by Peter Mayle that was a memoir of his first year living in Provence as a Brit. It captured the imaginations of many in book form and even more when it was made into a TV series staring John Thaw. The book cover was everywhere and is one of the iconic book jackets of the time, instantly recognisable and of the time and…

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[captaindibbzy]

"I've seen normally mild-mannered, reasonable people behave like ferrets in a sack over the most minor disagreement. They like to win, you see, and they get cross if they don't."

A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle.

#a dog's life #Peter Mayle

[vatt-world]

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Julia Alvarez Tahereh Mafi Diana Abu-Jaber Yasmin Crowther: Jenny Lawson ohn Kennedy Tool Dave Barry: Terry Pratchett Stephen Fry Spike Milligan Bill Bryson Maeve Higgins Christopher Moore Sloane Crosley "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual" by Luvvie Ajayi: "Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations" Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess): Augusten Burroughs: "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood" P.G. Wodehouse Jonas Jonasson ( Amy Tan My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell: Born Confused" by Tanuja Desai Hidier "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka: Jhumpa Lahiri: How to Be Black" by Baratunde Thurston Nora Ephron Erich Kästner

"The Tent, The Bucket and Me" by Emma Kennedy: Emma Kennedy's memoir offers a hilarious account of her family's disastrous camping trips in 1970s Britain, filled with mishaps, misadventures, and laugh-out-loud moments.

"Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson: Bill Bryson's memoir recounts his journey through Britain, offering humorous observations on its quirks, customs, and idiosyncrasies as an American expatriate.

"Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding: While technically a novel, Bridget Jones's diary-style memoir offers a humorous and relatable look at the life of a single woman in London, navigating relationships, career, and the quest for self-improvement.

"Don't Point That Thing at Me" by Kyril Bonfiglioli: This darkly humorous novel follows the exploits of Charlie Mortdecai, a charmingly roguish art dealer, as he gets embroiled in a series of absurd and comical misadventures.

"A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle: Peter Mayle's memoir chronicles his experiences living in the South of France, offering humorous anecdotes and charming insights into the joys and challenges of adapting to life in a new culture.

"The Great Railway Bazaar" by Paul Theroux: Paul Theroux's travel memoir offers a humorous and insightful account of his journey by train through Asia, capturing the sights, sounds, and eccentric characters he encounters along the way.

"The Outback House" by Leonie Norrington: This memoir follows Leonie Norrington's family as they leave city life behind to live in the Australian outback, offering humorous and heartwarming tales of their adventures and misadventures in the bush.

"Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen: Isak Dinesen's memoir offers a lyrical and humorous account of her experiences living on a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya, capturing the beauty, romance, and challenges of life in Africa.

"Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China" by Rachel DeWoskin: Rachel DeWoskin's memoir offers a humorous and candid look at her experiences as a young American woman living and working in Beijing, navigating cultural differences, romance, and the complexities of modern China.

"Cider with Rosie" by Laurie Lee: Laurie Lee's memoir offers a humorous and nostalgic look at his childhood in a small English village, capturing the innocence, wonder, and mischief of youth in rural Britain. François Rabelais Azar Nafisi: Marjane Satrapi

[darrynnsfrancelitblog]

“You’re looking for an unambiguous match, aren’t you?”

The vintage caper by Peter Mayle ( page: 175)

[theschnauzerhandbites]

See this is exactly why I like Peter Mayle's books so much. This guy knows what's up. Here I am, working my ass off to keep a shit ton of people with a job. And meanwhile my mind wants only to go back to Provence or Japan. I can afford it, but I don't have the time. I wanna read. I wanna draw. I wanna watch Cowboy Bebop. You can't catch a break with everything that's been going on in the world. So here I am, just a guy, trying to catch a break from all this tumult. I wanna pick up some old projects. I wanna write again too. Even in the toilet I'm checking stocks. my god. Can't even allow myself a simple dump. I can't even allow myself to sleep without dreaming.

[fictionadventurer]

Hope

Here is a stack of books that I hope to read within the next couple of months.

Books in the stack:

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien: I've got 83 pages left of last year's reread and I've got to quit being dumb and just finish it already.

What It Means to Be a Christian by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: A collection of three sermons by the future Pope Benedict XVI. It is short and should fulfill my goal of finally reading some of his writings.

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart: The only book of the series I've never read, though I've wanted to ever since seeing the miniseries. I stumbled on this copy at a library sale and gave it to myself for Christmas, so I'd like to read it soon, but it may wind up getting pushed back to May/June.

A Jane Austen Christmas by Maria Grace: Short nonfiction about Regency Christmas traditions I found just before Christmas. I had wanted to read it during the Christmas season and didn't quite get to it, but there's still a bit of time, and it shouldn't take me more than an hour or two.

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle: January is for travel books, and this will fit the bill nicely.

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson: I've got a larger collection of her works I'd actually like to finish (especially since it's on The Blackout Book Club's reading list) but I'd settle for finishing this much shorter collection.

A Table by the Window by Hilary Manton Lodge: January makes me want to read books about food and February makes me want to read love stories, so this Christian romance about a restaurant should fit nicely in either category.

Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupery: I first tried reading this several Januaries ago, and now every January makes me think that maybe this will be the year I actually finish it.

An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden: Valentine's Day makes me think of flowers, which turns my thoughts to spring and to gardens, so this year will be the year I finally get beyond the first few chapters of this book.

#answered asks #books #catkin-morgs #if i'd done the more straightforward 'books about hope' interpretation #you would have gotten a lot of the fairy tales and fantasy that have been in a lot of stacks #so i hope you don't mind i took it in a different direction