"Enjoy" Annie Lemoine

Women like the leak .. In all cases it is a theme in vogue this year on the shelves of our libraries ..
Claire, 40, a divorce (obviously), two children, chose to flee this life so cruel to spend a weekend at the hotel by the sea ..
As this woman a little bored, she extrapolates its neighbors bowl of coffee and think I found enough to fill his life so commonplace. She calls one of his friends who gave him this advice so profound: "fun" it sure is better than you ... emm ...- His life as the digest is then disrupted (tremolo LOUD please) ..

Without doubt the biggest scam of this new literary ... Annie Lemoine says his life (we even have the right to a description of issues for a champion if I if!) Thinking that his magic feather (mouaii she has not quite rub) will compensate for the emptiness of his novel .. It's crazy that it publishes people like that ... If you pass this book, but mostly quietly chuckles are not buying!!

Even silence has a purpose

Impressions: I think I read a lot of the existing narratives of captivity. In other words: It knows me!
So I opened this book jaded. We had heard so much bad about this woman that I had some qualms about putting me. And finally, I was completely caught up.
In the manner of a diary of his captivity, Ingrid Bettencourt said his daily life, the chains around their necks, humiliation, dehumanization. We share it with hunger, fear, false joys, sorrows, the nightmare of overcrowding and uncertainty.
This testimony is beautiful, well written and poignant. I challenge anyone to put manage to close this book without feeling ...
With humility and modesty, she is engaged, telling how she was disappointed itself of its petty desires and laborers for the better part, the best place. How much she suffered in this 'green hell'.
It provides the key that allowed him to survive for 6 long years: the messages of his family, escape attempts, the friendship with some inmates and especially an intense spiritual quest that will allow it to make sense of the senseless .
But it is also a wonderful adventure book. It keeps us in suspense from the first to the last page. We live with it every failure, every bite of insects, one shudders to crocodiles and other critters all larger and repulsive as each other ...
So I have to say is not to get into the game and jealous of other researchers lice and let yourself be touched by this story. Someone who signed his book "I had just been born, there was more in me nothing but love. I fell to my knees before the world, the sky and thanked in advance for everything who was to come. "this person can not be that bad right?

Discussion about Houellebecque

Last night was the traditional meal of "military women," test if it is a discussion that deserves review nonetheless identified some level of gossip ...

- Houellebecq has it converted? What messages to decipher in his new book?

Helena after talking shops "unavoidable" in Biarritz, asks me bluntly: "I'm reading Houellebecq and I wonder in particular, I do not understand why he chooses to take the stage with this update abyss in amazing, I think there is something behind this. "
After having answered that the two characters represented in my view both sides of his personality. A positive, friendly and creative man, who managed everything, the other depressed, sickly, inspiring pity and perhaps a little reluctantly. It dies. And then Ze question: Is this the death of the "old man" ie Baptism ?????
This highly personal book where the author shares his anxieties about old age, his relationship to another, his father, will 't it a step further by delivering a parable to illustrate his conversion?
This probably explains why this book is so radically different from what he used to write.
When do you think Houellebecq is he going to become the new Catholic author boasted in fam 'chret ?????

The fall of giants, Ken Follet

Author: Ken Follett is a writer specializing in Welsh historical novels. Its success is due to the quality of historical documentation that meets each time. His art is most evident in "The Pillars of the Earth", 1000 pages, which takes place at the time of the cathedral builders. He insists that his reader is held spellbound from first to last page.His novels are built very well studied and its characters so that no leaves us indifferent.

The story: The challenge of Ken Follet: Telling the twentieth century in three volumes of thousand pages (each of course!). It builds on the fate of several families from different social backgrounds. This first volume is devoted to the First World War.You have probably guessed, the members of each family will be players that will affect the "great history".

Impressions: Ken Follet is undoubtedly a wonderful storyteller. You never get bored one second reading of this impressive volume. The action is rhythmic, precise style.Gentleman is not an amateur ... It is in the tradition of great novelists such as Tolstoy found in the breath combined with the romantic interests of historical accuracy.Eugenio Corti, or as in "red horse", the author tries to make us understand and experience the views and mechanisms that have led each actor and current politics of the time. In this chapter you will become a supporter of Lenin for the next chapter hope that the Russian nobility regain its luster.
Policy and decisions that led to the decoded War are here "as if we were there."History through them thus becomes much more real than in a book with glossy paper and dates to memorize ....
For those who like history and stories.
The bet is won, the second volume strongly !!!!!!

Lolness Tobias, Timothy of Fombelle

Author: At 17, Timothy Fombelle founded a theater company for which he wrote and directed.

The Lighthouse, founded with actor Clement Sibony and awarded the Prix Blower  2002 , reveals him as a playwright. It then explores an intimate theater, often centered on loss, frailty ("I always dance" 2003) but is not afraid to confront the comedy ("Pink Cats" 2008). This is one of the most prestigious contemporary French writers.

He also turns to the novel with Tobias Lolness, Gallimard Jeunesse, which meets a worldwide success. The novel was translated into 26 languages. He received a score of French and international prices including the price English Marsh Award, the Andersen Italian and French devoted most prices to children's literature. The film adaptation rights were acquired by Amber Music (UK, U.S.). Tobias Lolness the adventures of Tobias and his family - creatures of a millimeter and a half - living in a world tree. Besides the literary structure of the novel, brilliant, breathless, the success of the work owes much to the wealth of history and the fineness of the analogy between this world tree, sick human follies and real-world problems . After a more intimate drama, the novel reflects the magnitude and breath of writing that is renewed.

With Celeste, my planet, released in 2007 in the journal "I Bookish" before being published by Gallimard Jeunesse, in the collection Folio Junior, he takes up the theme of the living planet, with perhaps a little less ultimate line.

T he first volume of a new novel, Vango, appeared in March 2010 by Gallimard.This saga casts a young hero, Vango, in the whirlwind of the 30s. The second volume is announced in 2011.

The story "Toby Lolness measured one millimeter and a half, which was not tall for his age. "

Thus begins the story of the adventures of the young Tobias, who belongs to the people of the great oak. This nation knows no other world than that of the tree, digging his houses in the branches, tracing their paths in the furrows of the bark, making work weevils, raising their larvae to feed. Toby's father, learned great and wise, refused to deliver the secret of a revolutionary invention that turns the sap of the tree into kinetic energy. He knows that some would use to the detriment of the tree. Furious, the Grand Council condemned Lolness family into exile in the lower branches, and dark wilderness, near the border of Peeled. Here, however, Tobias and lives happily met Elisha who becomes his friend. But Lolness are retried and this time sentenced to death. Only Toby manages to escape. Hiding in the hollow bark, common among the branches, Tobias leaking, hunted by his own ...

Tender complaints, Yoko Ogawa

Author: At 13, Yoko Ogawa read ' The Diary of Anne Frank '. She discovered that ordinary words, daily carry with them an incredible force for liberation.With this book , she met the words and the cruelty of the Holocaust orHiroshima . Since then, she writes books sensual and menacing, slow explosions where initiation to sexuality, death, the sacred is ritualized in the confrontation. Remarked upon his first novel , for which she won in 1988 the price Kaien, Yoko Ogawa's fame keeps growing, and in 1991 she won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for ' Pregnancy '. In French, many of its texts are available at Actes Sud , including " Scent of ice 'or' crystallization secret '.Writer of transgression calm, the attraction for water and dreams, the fascination with physical and mental abnormalities, Yoko Ogawa writes in a quiet and likes to learn how to sculpt a nothing of stories of people in the manner of Paul Auster , Kawabata or Murakami . In 2007, two new collectionsof his new ' The Eye 'and' The Unexpected Blessing 'find their way to the stalls of booksellers. Thanks to a prolific work and rich, Yoko Ogawa has become one of the most highly regarded contemporary novelists.

History: Ruriko is calligrapher. Fleeing the burning of her husband's infidelities, she moved alone in the mountains, the cottage of his parents.She meets Nitta , pianist converted in the manufacture of harpsichords, now unable to play in the presence of others. Beside him is Kaoru , his young assistant also a musician and a deaf old dog. One stormy night, sent by theinnkeeper , Kaoru goes to the cottage of the new arrival to bring her candles.

Impressions: Yoko Ogawa is an author that I discovered some time ago thanks to the small bookshop in Biarritz (Naked Lunch) where I go as regularly as possible ...

Since she became one of my favorite authors ...

Like all his books, writing is a very fine, fair and always feminine. There is just enough mystery and fantasy to give his stories (a little sad I must admit) a nice dreamlike quality.

A book for women, men are far too unbalanced to be part of the dream!

The hands of a miracle, Joseph Kessel

J oseph Kessel was a reporter, this time it takes us to the heart of Nazi Germany ... And this fantastic tale is the story, absolutely true, Dr. Kersten. 
Dr. Kersten, a Dutch national, had specialized before the war in medical massage. He had taken courses in London and received secret teachings from Tibet. His fame made him the physician of Himmler, the powerful head of the Gestapo, who became the second man in the Reich. . 
Himmler was suffering from unbearable pain that only managed to appease Kersten. Using this miraculous power, the hero of the story managed to save many, many political victims. . 
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This exciting adventure takes place in the middle of madness in Germany, including Joseph Kessel reconstructs the various aspects.

All these things we did not say, Marc Levy

Author: Author of popular novels , Marc Levy does not leave the ranking of the best sales since the early 2000s. Born in the Hauts-de-Seine , he left France for the United States at 23 years and founded a company specializing in computer graphics. He remains in North America , his second home for seven years and returns to Paris with plans to create an architectural firm with two of his friends.He is director for almost ten years. Magnet telling stories , Marc Levy began to write as an amateur. Finally, he decided to send his manuscript to several publishers and they are the Editions Robert Laffont who contact him. His first novel , Just Like Heaven ... ' is very well received by audiences and adapted tofilm in 2005 . Since then, he devoted himself to writing and takes the reader into his world where everything is possible. ' The Next Time 'was published in February 2005. In January 2006, sales of his five books, all editions and languages combined, exceeded ten million copies. His novels , ' My friends, my love 'and' All those things you did not say 'have confirmed the enthusiasm for this author .


The story: A few days before her wedding, Julia receives a phone call from the secretary to his father. As she had foreseen, Anthony Walsh - a brilliant businessman , but a distant father - could not attend the ceremony. But for once, he has a perfect excuse: he died. Julia can not help but see the tragi-comic aspect of the situation. His father always had a very special gift to appear suddenly and tilt the course of his life. From one second to another, his wedding plans turn into a funeral plans. But the day after the funeral, Julia discovers that her father has another surprise ... 

Moka, Tatiana de Rosnay

The author: French father and English mother, Tatiana de Rosnay has lived in the United States and studied at the University of East Anglia in England.Claiming a double culture, Tatiana de Rosnay gave each of his novels a point of view. Journalist , she started writing in 1992 with a novel in which suspense and mystery loom, ' The Apartment witness 'then published three years later acollection of short stories that gets warm welcome from readers. She then signs'Dinner ex 'in 1999, addresses the problem of organ transplantation with' The Heart of another 'give cold sweats to his characters in' The Neighbours 'in 2000 and then in' Memory wall 'in 2003 and his heroine' Spiral '. Adultery, divorce, passed away and mysteries are often the fabric of his novels. After writing more' Mocha ', she published in 2007 a moving novel about the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv ' Sarah ' '.


History: Justine is 40 years old, a British husband, Andrew , and two children.She works as a freelance translator and lives a quiet life. But a Wednesday afternoon, everything changed. His teenage son was hit by a drunk driver right in Paris . The stranger runs away, witnesses have barely time to note some figures from the plate. Seriously wounded, Malcolm fell into a coma. The investigation stalled. Justin and Andrew, in shock, mired in resentment and incomprehension. Their relationship becomes fragile. Against the advice of her husband, her parents, Justine does not give up finding the person responsible for the accident. Who was driving the Mercedes former model color ' Mocha '? The only person who will support Justine is her step-mother, ' so British ' Arabella , too whimsical and surprising character. The investigation will lead them in a seaside town in southern France , on the threshold of a villa overlooking the beach of the Cote des Basques . But at the end of the road, which is what Justin will she face?

The will of Olympus Chantal Thomas

Author: Specialist eighteenth, foremost historian and essayist , Chantal Thomasdid not multiply under the caps. She taught in many American universities , including Yale and Princeton , is Director of Research at Centre National Scientific Research , working in the world and in productions of Radio France .She wrote essays on Sade , Casanova and Marie Antoinette . She is also the author of stories more personal: 'Real life girls' and' How to support his freedom'. In 2002, she won the Prix Femina for his first novel , " Farewell to the Queen '. She also serves on the jury of the competition since 2003. In ' Suffering'(2003),' The Floating Island ',' The Queen's Palace ' (2005) or ' Paths of sand'(2006), Chantal Thomas tackles universal themes such as freedom, and built a universe subtle touch with reality, which is not without delight audiences and critics.

We're in the middle of the eighteenth century, during the disastrous Seven Years War, the reign of Louis XV.

Two sisters, Ursula and Apollonia, are the heroines of this story. They were born in Bordeaux, in a very religious. The father, a follower of Providence, engages with delight at the joy of doing nothing. The mother is praying. The family sinks into poverty. What Apolline barely noticed, while his older sister, driven by ambition and the spirit of freedom, has one wish: escape. The sisters lost sight of. Apolline is put into a convent, then became tutor in a castle. She emerges to find his dying sister, and discover, through a manuscript, the story of his adventures.

Ursula, renamed Olympus has managed to do take her to Paris by the Duke of Richelieu, the great governor of Aquitaine. She dreams of a career in theater, but the offer Richelieu to Louis XV at Versailles, which installs in his small house in the Parc-aux-Deer. A brilliant opening to her fate ...

As Farewell to the Queen, this novel is the result of an alchemy between erudition and fantasy. We plunge into an era, its colors, smells, rituals, and in a world dominated by the strange duo formed by the Duc de Richelieu, the most famous libertine of his century, and King Louis XV, inhabited by the taste death, the desire of women, and the sense of sin.

Impressions: Paper presented by Helen .. Your opinion?