Freely, through her moments of resistance and revolt, she had made use of herself to destroy herself.

Earlier in this month of #SpinsterSeptember hosted by @pear-jelly, I read The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym. I wanted to try and squeeze in another Pym before the end, and I really enjoyed reading…

Maigret à Vichy by Georges Simenon (1968) Early September, we spent a weekend in Vichy and I read Maigret in Vichy by Simenon which, obviously, sees Maigret investigating a murder in this spa town.…

Le président du Rassemblement national aurait tenu de manière répétée des propos antisémites et complotistes dans des conversations privées datant de ses débuts au Front national, en 2013, deux ans av...

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…

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…

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…