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Doesn’t she look like Odette Swann?
When I was in Paris I visited the Musée Carnavalet. In the room full of paintings of La Belle Epoque, not far from the reconstitution of Marcel Proust’s room, (See Amateur Reader’s excellent post on this here) I noticed a painting by Louise Abbéma and I thought : “It’s Odette!”
Currently reading
- Please, Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook!
- The Grey Ghost murders by Keith McCafferty
Upcoming billets:
- La papeterie Tsubaki by Ogawa Ito
- Terre des Affranchis by Liliana Lazar
- Lesser of Evils by Joe Flanagan
- Space Between Us by Zoyâ Pirzâd
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Recent Posts
- Back to the theatre! Yay!!!!
- Lesser of Evils by Joe Flanagan – Great debut noir fiction
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis – good literature but too bleak for me.
- Between Two Worlds by Olivier Norek – Translation tragedy. This book needs an English translator.
- Money Shot by Christa Faust – Gripping and entertaining
- Crime fiction readalong with S.
- 20 Books of Summer 2021 : It’s a wrap!
- Black Water Rising by Attica Locke – multilayered crime fiction
- Book Club 2021-2022 : The List
- Rosa Candida by Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir – not totally convincing
Les copines d’abord are currently reading
- September: Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyun-sook
- October: Chances Are… by Richard Russo
Join us if you want to.
Other readalongs:
- September: Les larmes noires sur la terre by Sandrine Collette
- October: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
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.
Book Club: Les copines d’abord
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- The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage - rush for it.
- Back to the theatre! Yay!!!!
- Swami and friends by R.K. Narayan
- Le mal du siècle, by Alfred de Musset
- My experience with reading poems by Keats
- Charming Mass-Suicide by Arto Paasilinna
- Eldorado by Laurent Gaudé. Extremely powerful.
- Arria Marcella by Théophile Gautier
- Women of Algiers in their Apartment by Assia Djebar
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa - unusual coming-of-age novel
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