2013 has been a great year for France Book Tours, its authors and its reviewers!

Here is the year through some graphs and stats.

23 books have been presented in 2013.
I notice a nice balance in genre, but women writers are definitely more present here.
At the time where many lament of the scarcity of books translated from the French available in the US, it is nice to see that we didn’t do too bad!

GENRE

AUTHORS

LANGUAGE

AND NOW TO THE 3 BOOKS
MOST OFTEN VIEWED IN 2013

#1

#2

And did you see Paulita Kincer will be on Tour
in 2014 with her latest book!

#3

France Book Tours needs authors AND reviewers.

We have so far 57 active book bloggers and 7 authors as reviewers themselves.
And we have several new bloggers for 2014!

HAPPY NEW WRITING AND READING YEAR TO EACH OF YOU!

Every Tuesday,
Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read.
Anyone can join in.
Click on the logo to link your post.

I will share here the first paragraph of a book
in the Completed Tours category.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9853206-0-7
Published  by Le French Book, Inc. in 2012
First published in French in 2011

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Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
*Find any sentence, (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Click on the logo here to access the host page.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky.
*Add the post url, not your blog url. It’s that simple.

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I will post for this meme a passage from a book
presented on France Book Tours
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Click on the book cover to know more about the book

“This rocky section of shore was all cliffs. And where there were cliffs there were usually caves. Indeed, in the moonlight, I noticed many openings and was intrigued. The locals talked of cave walls covered with ancient drawings, rooms deep in the rocks that were used in older times as retreats, temples and burial grounds. I’d explored several caves, mostly on the other side of the island of at Plemont Bay. They were majestic and mysterious, but I had yet to stumble upon a cavern I could be sure had any mystical significance.”
page 56

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN THIS SHORT EXCEPT?