month of February has been quite prolific on the side reading for me with 1421 + 500 pages Official pages of the book I'm read, for a grand total of almost 2000 pages. It's simple, if the book is good, I read all the time on my lunch hour, after dinner, before bed, on weekends when I do not know what to do ... it flies! And then the winter when it's cold or there is a storm, it's not as if there were many other things to do. Part as I'm here, I will have no problem reading the 52 books of the challenge! Taste
girls - Dany Laferriere, 331 pages
I might have chosen a better book from Dany Laferrière. Say it was not for me, but a must-read to find out. Dany style is interesting. Many dialogues and short sentences, making sure everything goes rather quickly. It is also a disadvantage because there are no descriptions in this novel. I could not imagine the scene or the characters. I should only see through their dialogue (or monologue, as sections of the book), which I was not so pleased. I have come to the obvious: I like descriptive novels. I like to describe the colors, textures and smells, they call the plants and trees in the background (even if very often, I have no idea which resemble those plants and trees). I like to feel that the places and characters really exist.
thistle and tartan - Diana Gabaldon, 647 pages
Here I must confess that I just found the next series I will read avidly this year. The thistle and tartan is exactly the kind of book I love: another place, another time. A note of fantastic, just what is needed. Charismatic characters, places spellbinding. I could not ask for anything better.
Here I must confess that I just found the next series I will read avidly this year. The thistle and tartan is exactly the kind of book I love: another place, another time. A note of fantastic, just what is needed. Charismatic characters, places spellbinding. I could not ask for anything better. Claire Beauchamp is on vacation with her husband, Frank Randall, Scotland, shortly after the end of World War II during which she worked as a nurse. DeFrank separated for several years, they are happy to finally find. During a walk in the forest, they discover a stone circle (kind of Stonehenge). Claire returns alone, passes through a split stone and finds himself 200 years earlier, in 1743, amid a échaufourrée between the English and Scots. It will be saved by the Scots, the McKenzie clan more precisely, and brought back to Castle Leoch. Itself being English, the Scots take time to trust him and accuse him of sorcery because his knowledge as a nurse. To escape the evil Captain Jonathan Randall English, she must marry against her will a Scotsman whose head is a price, Jamie Fraser, whom she eventually falls in love. Follows a series of adventures to save the skin of one and another and out of the clutches of British.
The characters are endearing, stunning scenery and detestable villains. The time seems to be well told. It reminds me the kind of Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Notice interested parties!).
Brigitte
of Wrath - Jerome Lafond, 178 pages
I read this book because it was written by a friend of a friend. At first it looked promising because it portrays a teenager with an atypical personality who lives in the Lower Laurentians, St. Scholastica. She loves cats abandoned, vampires, witches, cemeteries, the killers and bad guys. In short, you get the picture. Despite some very interesting characters and unusual situations (eg, a murderer who has plagued the region, leaving the bodies of his victims in slurry pits or troughs for cows), I found that this novel lacked depth and it was rather disjointed. It jumps from one scene to another without continuity. One begins to say something but there is no sequel. I kinda had the feeling of reading a draft of a novel promising. Like a movie trailer. I found that there was potential in the story, I am not bored while reading it but I stayed on my hunger. I hope the next novel will be more robust because it contained a world that has barely been touched.
I read this book because it was written by a friend of a friend. At first it looked promising because it portrays a teenager with an atypical personality who lives in the Lower Laurentians, St. Scholastica. She loves cats abandoned, vampires, witches, cemeteries, the killers and bad guys. In short, you get the picture. Despite some very interesting characters and unusual situations (eg, a murderer who has plagued the region, leaving the bodies of his victims in slurry pits or troughs for cows), I found that this novel lacked depth and it was rather disjointed. It jumps from one scene to another without continuity. One begins to say something but there is no sequel. I kinda had the feeling of reading a draft of a novel promising. Like a movie trailer. I found that there was potential in the story, I am not bored while reading it but I stayed on my hunger. I hope the next novel will be more robust because it contained a world that has barely been touched. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran - Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, 85 pages
This author was recommended to me by friends. Of all his books, I chose this one because I had already heard the title somewhere but I can not say where. It is a short book: 85 pages. Much shorter than I am used to read. And it's written very big. To be honest, I read in one go on my lunch hour. It took me 30 minutes maximum wholesale. I had the feeling of reading a new rather than a novel. It racontre history of Momo, a 16 year old who lives in Paris with her father, a disillusioned man who never smiles. Momo is taken Friendship for Ibrahim, a Muslim who runs the corner grocery store in a Jewish neighborhood. I will say no more otherwise it will do nothing for you to sink your teeth when you read the book.
In all honesty, this is not the kind of book I like for two reasons. First, it is a book that I would classify in the category and moral philosophy alongside the story of Pi or the Alchemist, two books that I did not particularly like but many have loved it. These are relatively simple and short stories that provide ideas about life. Personally, I do not read and think, I read to escape. This type of book suits me very little. Second, 85 pages written in block 16, it is much too short for me. I do not have time to immerse myself in places and characters that it's over. Just thirty minutes in my life who have passed like a flash and I do not remember probably in a week. I think I am made to read lengthy sagas and novels with a plot. Rather, this kind of reading that satisfies me.
I recommend the book if you like this kind of literature. I do not doubt that you will enjoy reading it. For my part, I defer to the second volume of the series Outlander by Diana Gabaldon!
The jitters around the world Volume 1 - Bruno Blanchet, 180 pages
I had no expectations for this book. Like Bruno Blanchet, I like travel stories, so I borrowed the book. I was not expecting what I discover. The book consists of a series of columns published in the newspaper La Presse in 2004-2005 and presented in a format scrapbook with photos, copies of plane tickets, etc.. We follow Bruno through the Pacific Islands and parts of Asia (Myanmar, Laos, China). He recounts his adventures. It is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes informative but always very well written. Because he has a pen-Tite our teeth! I laughed out loud at several passages, including hunting wild pig (like in Lost!), I even cried with laughter when he recounted his first meal in China or the way he recognize Chinese characters. It is a light book that reads quickly and leads us elsewhere. I recommend it to everyone, without exception. The only downside: the photos printed voluntarily poor. I would have liked to see the details of the images, but you end up with photos as a point, as if it had grown color photos of log. I guess it's a style we wanted to give the book.
Currently, I read The Talisman, the second book in the series the Thistle and the Tartan (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon. Much of the book happens in the region of Paris, the royal court and among the people of the nobility. It's still as good, but I much preferred the scenery of Scotland. I should finish this book in the first week of March. On my list for this month, I have the last two volumes of the jitter around the world of Bruno Blanchet and two Kathy Reichs coming up through interlibrary loan.
The jitters around the world Volume 1 - Bruno Blanchet, 180 pages
I had no expectations for this book. Like Bruno Blanchet, I like travel stories, so I borrowed the book. I was not expecting what I discover. The book consists of a series of columns published in the newspaper La Presse in 2004-2005 and presented in a format scrapbook with photos, copies of plane tickets, etc.. We follow Bruno through the Pacific Islands and parts of Asia (Myanmar, Laos, China). He recounts his adventures. It is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes informative but always very well written. Because he has a pen-Tite our teeth! I laughed out loud at several passages, including hunting wild pig (like in Lost!), I even cried with laughter when he recounted his first meal in China or the way he recognize Chinese characters. It is a light book that reads quickly and leads us elsewhere. I recommend it to everyone, without exception. The only downside: the photos printed voluntarily poor. I would have liked to see the details of the images, but you end up with photos as a point, as if it had grown color photos of log. I guess it's a style we wanted to give the book. Currently, I read The Talisman, the second book in the series the Thistle and the Tartan (Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon. Much of the book happens in the region of Paris, the royal court and among the people of the nobility. It's still as good, but I much preferred the scenery of Scotland. I should finish this book in the first week of March. On my list for this month, I have the last two volumes of the jitter around the world of Bruno Blanchet and two Kathy Reichs coming up through interlibrary loan.
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