Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom (2023) French title: C’était notre terre. Translated by Marie-Axelle de la Rochefoucauld. As usual, I read faster than I write billets, so, I’m still catching up with …

September 3rd is the day when I came to Berlin for good. Yes, it took a few weeks to move into my flat, even longer to get my stuff delivered and my kitchen installed, and I shilly-shallied back to…

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So, August is over and so is the 20 Books of Summer challenge. Time to wrap it up and let you know what I read. I have not reviewed all the books I read but I will catch up soon. Technically I did …

Summer’s officially over and therefore so is the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge for another year. Thanks to Annabel at AnnaBookBel for being our host for the event. I usually try to sti…

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the mythology of vampires began with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” published in 1897. However, as “Vampire Tales”, a fantastic new …

Infrared by Nancy Huston (2010) Original French title: Infrarouge. After a few books with a lot of action and adrenaline, I wanted to read something quiet. I could have turned to one of John Gierac…

Infrared by Nancy Huston (2010) Original French title: Infrarouge. After a few books with a lot of action and adrenaline, I wanted to read something quiet. I could have turned to one of John Gierac…

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (2012) French title: Dans la lumière. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver is set in Feathertown, a tiny town in rural Tennessee. Dellarobia is 28 and is stuc…

La littérature canadienne francophone suscite depuis quelques années un engouement croissant sur le marché hexagonal, qui se confirme en cette rentrée littéraire. Porté d’abord par le travail de maiso...

The Clay Eaters by Peter Farris (2019) French title: Les mangeurs d’argile. Translated by Anatole Pons-Reumaux. I have this category on the blog named Translation Tragedy for excellent books which …

Hi everyone ! Séverine and I will be attending the Festival America in Vincennes, at the end of September. It’s a festival dedicated to American literature and as you know if you’re familiar w…

Hi everyone ! Séverine and I will be attending the Festival America in Vincennes, at the end of September. It’s a festival dedicated to American literature and as you know if you’re familiar w…

Only the Earth Lasts Forever by François Busnel. Original French title: Seule la Terre est éternelle. Dalva by Jim Harrison (1988) Audio book read by Chris Henrey Coffey and Stacey Glemboski. Frenc…

One of the strands for my ten or fifteen or twenty books of summer were books about Berlin – but I went a little rogue, as I explained last time, and picked up some books at random from the l…

Gaël Faye’s “Jacaranda” looks at the limits of reconciliation

Hi everyone ! Séverine and I will be attending the Festival America in Vincennes, at the end of September. It’s a festival dedicated to American literature and as you know if you’re familiar w…

As mentioned in my previous billet, today’s Literary Escapade takes us along the Icelanders’ walk in Ploubazlanec and Pors-Even, Brittany. It starts at the Wall of the Missing Sailors i…

DOWN WITH UNLIMITED GROWTH, DOWN FROM NATIONAL STATES TO INTERDEPENDENT CULTURAL UNITS

Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2001) French title : Par-dessus le bord du monde. Translated by Nadine Gassie. Whenever you ask for recommendations about Australian literature, Tim Winton is always on th…

Serena by Ron Rash (2008) French title : Serena. Serena by Ron Rash is a historical fiction book set in Waynesville, North Carolina in the early 1930s. George Pemberton comes home with his bri…

Quand vous traînez vos guêtres en librairie, avez-vous remarqué la multiplication des livres ayant des couvertures similaires, avec une ou deux silhouettes plaquées sur un fond représentant soit de…

On the blog last week Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie on the theme of book covers and I chose Books With Modes of Transport on the Cover. Wednesday – As always…

Serena by Ron Rash (2008) French title : Serena. Serena by Ron Rash is a historical fiction book set in Waynesville, North Carolina in the early 1930s. George Pemberton comes home with his bri…

It was a conversation with Marcie in the comments of Jacqui’s Levant Trilogy post which led to us doing a buddy read for all three volumes of Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy this year. We started w…

Apologies to readers who saw a prematurely published fragment of this review. Francesca de Tores was an author new to me when I read Saltblood (2024), her first novel published here in Australia af…

I quickly summarised Books 10 and 11 (Romania and Berlin respectively) on my #20BooksofSummer list in my monthly summary for July, and now I went back to East Asia for two women writers to fulfill …

For some reason, July ended up being a month in which I read a number of chunky books (which I hadn’t necessarily planned…) and so although the total of books read was less than usual, …

Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2001) French title : Par-dessus le bord du monde. Translated by Nadine Gassie. Whenever you ask for recommendations about Australian literature, Tim Winton is always on th…

Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …

Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …

Imagine you’re in the Vosges mountains and you’re starting the hike of the day and…stumble upon a bookstore. That’s what happened to me. A flight of stairs in a green tunnel and a sign for La Forêt…

Wait, what? It’s All About Books is joining in on the 20 Books Of Summer fun again even though in Argentina it’s far into autumn right now?! Well yes, I just couldn’t resist joini…