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To sheer enjoyment. Cheers!
I’ve just started to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows and I wanted to share this :
That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you on another book, and another bit there will lead you to a third book. It’s geometrically progressive — and with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
I couldn’t have said it better. This book sounds lovely.
Currently reading
- For a Little While by Rick Bass
- Albertine disparue by Marcel Proust
- Berthe Morisot by Dominique Bona
- Last Night at the Ritz by Elizabeth Savage
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Upcoming billets:
- Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (abandoned)
- L’Ile aux trente cercueils by Maurice Leblanc (abandoned)
- The Cut by Anthony Cartwright
My little boxes
Recent Posts
- Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson – Where European winters seem summery
- Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler – entertaining as hell
- A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison – drugs, alcohol, ecotage and road trip
- A Summer With Proust – “Reading is a friendship”
- Fuck America. Bronsky’s Confession by Edgar Hilsenrath – Bandini on steroids
- Mister Roger and Me by Marie-Renée Lavoie – Québec City in the 1980s and Lady Oscar
- Lantana Lane by Eleanor Dark – an intelligent comedy about a community doomed to disappear.
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
- The Score by Richard Stark – the Parker series
- The Hour of Lead by Bruce Holbert – tragedy strikes in Washington state
Les copines d’abord are currently reading
- February: Berthe Morisot. Le secret de la femme en noir by Dominique Bona
- March: Ashes, Ashes by René Barjavel
Join us if you want to.
Other readalongs:
- February: Western Stories by Elmore Leonard
- March: Open Season by CJ Box
Manifesto: I read, therefore I am
The 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac
1) The right to not read,
2) The right to skip pages
3) The right to not finish a book,
4) The right to reread,
5) The right to read anything,
6) The right to “Bovary-ism,” a textually-transmitted disease
7) The right to read anywhere,
8) The right to sample and steal,
9) The right to read out-loud,
10) The right to be silent.
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Your favorite posts
- A Cool Million by Nathanael West
- Women of Algiers in their Apartment by Assia Djebar
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco
- Literary escapade: the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
- The Poor Man's Son by Mouloud Feraoun
- The Speech by Fabrice Caro - hilarious, bittersweet and spot-on
- The Pacific is inconstant and uncertain like the soul of a man
- The Dark Room by RK Narayan or Desperate Indian Housewife
- Joe by Larry Brown
- Le Cid by Pierre Corneille
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