As far as binge reading goes, I’m with Jeffo. I get tired of the voice if I keep reading books by the same author. I even get tired of a genre, so I diversify. I’ll read a non-fiction in English, then go on to a literary novel in French, then I’ll read a classic, and after that jump to a book on Physics, etc.

I did a binge TV series just last week. Broadchurch came on television here in France for the first time a week ago. I watched the first episode and loved it. It was dubbed in French, but I thought, “Hey, this is a British series that came out last year….” Yep, I went online and watched the entire season in two days! Great show! I hear they’re doing a remake of it for the American audience. They plan on calling it Gracepoint. I don’t understand why they can’t just broadcast the show as it is in the US.

Why does everything have to be Americanized? There have been several French films that were great and rather than show them dubbed in English or with English subtitles – no they had to do a remake for the American audience. Okay, so some people don’t want to read subtitles and the American film industry is the worst at dubbing, but come on! Broadchurch takes place in England just like Downton Abbey.