October 2008
9 posts from a month of reading and wandering
United States / Episode 2
I'm inventing a new saying: West Coast in summer, East Coast in fall. Or: July in San Francisco, October in New York. What I'm saying is I'm about to cross the Atlantic for the second time this year...
Read MoreThe Fanatics - Max Gallo
Julien Nori teaches ancient history at the Sorbonne. He claims both the legacy of the Enlightenment, his Sicilian roots, and the Christian culture his grandmother raised him in. So he's devastated when his brilliant daughter chooses a different path...
Read MoreHer Absence - Justine Augier
Literary season 2008. The narrator is an elderly, solitary man who works as a public writer, specializing in biographies of the deceased. One day a mother asks him to reconstruct the life of Aria, her daughter who disappeared at twenty-six...
Read MoreThe Childhood Friend - Antoine Sénanque
Literary season 2008. "I'm going through a rough patch. I'm a psychiatrist, I can't listen to my patients anymore, I've lived for twenty-five years with an obsessive woman who's getting worse, I have two ten-year-old kids, twins I keep confusing..."
Read MoreThe People of Balto - Faïza Guène
Literary season 2008. Joigny-les-Deux-Bouts, an ordinary suburban town: a housing development, a project, a small downtown with a few shops, the commuter rail station, and a bar called the Balto. Everyone knows everyone here, so when Jojo, the owner...
Read MoreLet It Rain - Agnès Jaoui
Feminist and bestselling author Agathe Villanova has decided to enter politics. She returns to her native region in the South of France for a few days to promote her candidacy. She finds the family house now occupied by others...
Read MoreI Love, I Love, I Love...
I love your blog! Armande was kind enough to mention me in this "who loves who?" tag and after much hesitation, I decided to continue the chain. Hesitations because there are dozens of blogs I read more or less regularly...
Read MoreThe Unnoticed - Sylvie Germain
Literary season 2008. Since her husband's death, Sabine has been raising her four children alone and running the family business alone. Like every year, she spends Christmas with her in-laws and tries to keep her distance from her brother-in-law's controlling nature...
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