Sufi my love, Elif Shafak

Ella Rubinstein has seemingly everything to be happy: a beautiful house in Massachusetts, three beautiful children, a faithful dog. But on the eve of his fortieth birthday, she wonders if she has not gone beside herself. The infidelities of her husband are no longer a mystery and cooking classes on Thursday not enough to exalt his monotonous life. Decided to resume work, she was hired as a reader by a literary agent. His first assignment: write a note on a manuscript signed Aziz Z. Zahara. This novel, which recounts the encounter between the poet Rumi and the most famous dervish of the Muslim world, Shams of Tabriz, will be a revelation for Ella.Throughout the pages, she discovers Sufism, the rejection of convention and the splendor of love. This story proves to be the mirror of his own.Aziz - as Shams Rumi did for seven centuries ago - would it come release?

Impressions: No this is not a book on yet another depressed woman, no it is not just another book to rosewater for romantic housewife. Yes, the summary is a little draw, and yes it should read ...

A beautiful mystical tale straight out of the tales of Thousand and One Nights. An entertaining way and beautifully written to discover or deepen Sufism. The Muslim spirituality much closer to us than Islam hardcore ... A book on Love, a book about love ..

My detractors will always say that the end is a bit immoral, after all, Ella is a crisis of teen and she fits into a cult ... I agree but I think the key lies in the call to conversion, the quest for the Absolute

Philippe Sollers, Treasure of Love

"We live in Venice, therefore, Minna and me, away. We can not escape, you see nobody, water, books, birds, trees, boats, bells, silence, music, we agree on everything. Never enough time yet again. Late at night, a grand march to the ferry terminal and back, when all sleep. I get up early, the sun on the left, and that time again, and again time. You are silent much, that evidence means. The lovers are alone in the world because the world is done for them and by them. Love is in the vortex cell of chance, and those two had a chance to meet a few billion at the same time. Between French and Italian, there is a long and bizarre history. She asks, with Stendhal, only deepen. "

Philippe Sollers was born in Bordeaux. He founded the journal and the collection as it stood in 1960, then in 1983, the magazine and The Infinite Collection. Author of numerous novels and essays (Paradise, Women, Portrait of the players, the absolute heart, Day in Venice, The Secret, The War of taste, The rider of the Louvre, Casanova's admirable ...) it has published by Editions Gallimard fixed Passion (Vintage White, 2000, Folio No. 3566), The Star Lovers (Vintage White, 2002 Folio No. 4120), A Divine Life (Vintage White, 2006, Folio No. 4533), The Travelers Time (Vintage White, 2009), Great Speeches (Vintage White, 2010).

Impressions: I must confess right now, I'm not at all a fan of Sollers ... Author libertine and malicious, praised by all the cream-Pratini Germano, has a knack for exasperating me ...

But given all the critical praise and unanimous, so I went in trying to put my evil thoughts a bit muted reaction ...

I have conquered the first few pages, beautiful passages about Venice, about love, literature.But after a while ... pffff We are bored ... The journey of a dreamer becomes a bit disjointed Treaty on Stendhal and loves missed ....

Hardly enough to really masterpiece ... A pretentious book although I confess it is well written ...

You can safely do without and if you still want to shine in society, read a lagarde you will learn much about Stendhal without losing too much time!

The Will of Olympia, Chantal Thomas

The story of two sisters from a poor background and very religious. One of them escaped while the other is placed in a convent ....
After some years the youngest decides to go looking for one she admired so much ...

Brrrrr, it was not good to be a young woman in the eighteenth. Grandeur and decadence of a Cinderella who all failed to succeed.
A beautiful book that suits the author manages to make us forget his scholarship and to serve an exciting romantic intrigue.
We must however take this book as an anti fairy tale and not the absolute reality. The cartoon was omni-present and manifest anti-monarchy ....
For those who are sad (and me), reading this book can become quite painful ....