"Avoiding the influence of the algorithm requires a conscious effort of resistance. Getting a book recommendation from your local bookseller or librarian or friend is a small act of resisting the algorithm" (John Warner).
I couldn't find any more good Japanese tv series on Netflix, so I decided to try BritBox, a platform with tons of British TV shows (and maybe more, I don't know). There, I found a nice TV series called Vera. It has (it seems) 4 episodes per season and 13 seasons available as of today,... Lire la Suite →
C'est Roz qui m'a donné envie de lire L'Impossible retour, par Amélie Nothomb. Je n'adore ni ne déteste Nothomb, j'ai lu quelques uns de ses bouquins et je ne m'en souviens plus vraiment. Je l'ai rencontrée, elle, en 2007 ou 2008, à l'Alliance française de Toronto où elle était venue parler de je ne sais... Lire la Suite →
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence took me to a different planet and a different time: November 2019 to November 2020, in Minneapolis. Towards the end of the novel, the main character, Tookie, says, "I want to forget this year, but I’m also afraid I won’t remember this year." This is how I feel, too, about 2020!... Lire la Suite →
https://youtu.be/RhBYzNv4N_E?feature=shared (this was too funny to not post here)
About a year ago, I read a book written by a Korean/American musician/artist, Michelle Zauner, about her childhood in the United States and the difficulties she encountered as a child who didn't look like her classmates, whose family didn't eat what her friends' families ate, whose parents had high expectations for her, and who had... Lire la Suite →
Après avoir terminé le dernier Kathy Reichs, j'ai acheté Middle England, de Jonathan Coe, que je me réjouissais de lire depuis longtemps. C'était un gros bouquin, mais comme j'allais faire un tour à Toronto, c'était parfait pour des heures de voiture. Hélas, le narrateur parlait très fort, SAUF quand il lisait les dialogues, et alors... Lire la Suite →
Ahhhh, I had been waiting for this new book by Kathy Reichs for a long time! I was surprised that they released the written, electronic, AND audio versions of Fire and Bones (8 hours and 41 minutes) all at the same time. This new Temperance Brennan story takes place in Washington DC and is a... Lire la Suite →
Things I don't Want To Know is a very short "living autobiography," as Deborah Levy, the author, calls it, and the first of a series of three books. In this first book, Levy tells about her childhood in South Africa and her family's exile to England. The writing is very British, with dry humour and... Lire la Suite →
L'écho des morts, par Johan Theorin, polar polaire, m'a été recommandé dans les commentaires par une lectrice fidèle 🙂 C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui déménage sur l'île d'Öland, un endroit très isolé, pour y vivre avec sa femme et ses enfants. Mais rapidement, la femme est retrouvée noyée et il se retrouve seul avec beaucoup... Lire la Suite →
I loved Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto! I laughed many times, and it was also touching and annoying and stressful and nail-biting and everything else a good summer novel should be. This was a perfect book to rest my poor brain after the death-focused summer (events and readings) I've had... Lire la Suite →
Bouquins et musique 
Oh don't worry, I use the words septante, huitante, et nonante as often as possible in my daily life and…
According to me, the French word « huitante » sounds like a bit of homesickness 🇨🇭. By the way, I…
De rien. (Comme quoi il y a malgré tout des morceaux de vraie vie dans ce blog qui semble pourtant…
Merci pour ce clip. (Et j'ai pensé à toi, pas plus tard que vendredi, en découvrant au tableau de la…
Visiblement beaucoup de gens se disent la même chose mais il y a une explication: https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-walk-of-life-by-dire-straits-and-how-it-was-inspired-by-a-photo/