Bookstores, publishers and readers – everlasting love
We, book lovers, are a different species. We love to read, we love to read about reading, we love to read about people who run bookstores, we love to discover other people’s reading lists, we love to...
View ArticleThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) French title: Underground Railroad. Translated by Serge Chauvin The Underground Railroad is my second Colson Whitehead, after the impressive Nickel...
View ArticleFlight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown – pleasant and educational
Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown (2014) French title: L’envol du moineau. Translated by Cindy Colin Kapen. Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown came with my Kube subscription and became...
View ArticleThe Waltz of Trees and Sky by Jean-Michel Guenassia – Van Gogh’s days in...
The Waltz of Trees and Sky by Jean-Michel Guenassia. (2016) Original French title: La valse des arbres et du ciel. The Waltz of Trees and Sky by Jean-Michel Guenassia was our Book Club choice for...
View ArticleDeacon King Kong by James McBride – Joyful and realistic, a tour-de-force
Deacon King Kong by James McBride (2020) French title: Deacon King Kong. Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969. That’s the...
View ArticleOn Identity : Delphine Horvilleur, Romain Gary and Alexandra Lapierre
Delphine Horvilleur was born in 1974, she’s a rabbi, a journalist and a writer. She co-leads the Liberal Jewish Movement of France and she’s a public figure known for her humanist and moderate stands....
View ArticleJob’s Coffin by Lance Weller – two people thrown into the horrors of slavery...
Job’s Coffin by Lance Weller (2021) French title: Le cercueil de Job. Translated by François Happe. Lance Weller is an American writer born in 1965 in Washington State. He wrote three books of...
View ArticleThe Missing by Tim Gautreaux – the 1920s and steamboats on the Mississippi...
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux (2009) French title: Nos disparus. Translated by Marc Amfreville Set in the South in the 1920s, The Missing by Tim Gautreaux portrays the life journey of his main...
View ArticleClean Slate #5 : Catching up with billets – short-stories, historical fiction...
As usual, I read faster than I write billets, so I’ve got to play catch up again. Today we’ll go through a collection of short stories by T.C. Boyle, historical fiction by Lance Weller and a folk’s...
View ArticleClean Slate # 6 : Korea, England, France and Québec
September is usually a roller-coaster at work as everyone comes back energized from holidays, as projects postponed before the break come back in full force but this year the bumps and hills are...
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