December 2016

End-of-year retrospectives are to December 31st what resolutions are to January 1st: mandatory. Here's my literary year in review. I read exactly 100 books this year (a personal record!) with only 7 graphic novels. The year started strong...

Loved Philip Pullman's trilogy, so I was eager to see the film adaptation—especially since that poster is killer. Borrowed two teenagers to give myself an excuse to head into those parallel worlds. What I found was...

Mademoiselle Aïssatou is gorgeous and confident—until she falls for her neighbor, Monsieur Bolobolo, who seems completely immune to her charms. To seduce him, she'll abandon diets and embrace her curves. A comic and heartfelt romance...

One of those uninspired library days where I wandered the aisles looking for anything worth checking out. Everything on my list was unavailable. Then my eye caught something on the shelf—a title that pulled me in. Sometimes the best finds...

Wishing everyone a gentle and glittering Christmas!

Finally here—December 23rd, the day we've all been waiting for! The day we can officially open our Scandinavian swap packages. I didn't waste a second tearing into mine. Here's everything that arrived, all the little treasures...

It's winter, so I'm giving my blog a new header. A melancholic photo taken on the hillsides of Moissac during my last Christmas with my father. A place I won't visit much anymore since our family house just sold...

It arrived! A big package straight from Belgium, courtesy of a blogger with a beautiful name: Thank you Lune de Pluie! Can't wait until Sunday to open it! And thanks to the lovely organizers of this swap...

Near the end of his life, Raj dreams of his friend David, dead for sixty years. The dream unleashes memories. Raj grew up in a slum in northern Mauritius between an alcoholic, brutal father and a tender, loving mother...

Wasn't rushing to read the latest Blondel. Too many mixed reviews, a new style, an unlikable protagonist—I was afraid of being disappointed by an author I love. Then Fairy Caroline passed by again with her magic wand...