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April 2024 Archive

The Scouts - Antoine Bello

Les éclaireurs - Antoine Bello

CFR series, book 2. "How's work going?" she asked. "You know how it is. After moving mountains in the rainforest, I'm struggling to find motivation for fixing commas in World Bank reports." A few characters return...

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The Falsifiers - Antoine Bello

Les Falsificateurs - Antoine Bello

CFR series, book 1. "Let me get this straight. I'm telling a story about a completely fictional African tribe that discovered an exceptional diamond deposit they must defend against a greedy South African corporation. I've never set foot there..."

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A Beach at the North Pole – Arnaud Dudek

Une plage au Pôle Nord – Arnaud Dudek

"Life is grim sometimes, even for good guys." It starts with a lost camera. The woman who finds it, Françoise, is widowed, retired, has time to kill, and decides to track down the owner by going through the photos...

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Ice Ages - Fred Vargas

Temps glaciaires - Fred Vargas

"How can you distance yourself from something when you don't even know where you are?" Without a small graffiti on the bathroom wall, Commissioner Bourlin would've easily concluded it was suicide after finding an old woman with slashed wrists...

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Loves - Léonor de Récondo

Amours - Léonor de Récondo

"Why did they lie to us so much during childhood? About married life, about everything that's supposed to make a woman happy?" Early 20th century in a small provincial town. Victoire is a bourgeois woman who's bored. She's married...

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Flee - Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Fuir - Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Marie's faint voice literally transported me, the way thought, dream, or reading can, when it separates body from mind, the body stays static and the mind travels, expands and extends, and slowly, behind...

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The Well - Ivan Repila

Le puits - Ivan Repila

"Don't be scared of dreams, they're not real. They're thoughts mixing in our heads, memories we can't express with words." Two brothers at the bottom of a well, with a bag of food. The Big one is strong, the Little one is weak...

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"The Magic of Pure Feeling"

"The magic of pure feeling"

Holiday magazine, a luxury review (written in English) dedicated to travel, devotes its latest issue to Japan, the country I'm most obsessed with right now (trip planned for 2025, if I manage to meet all the conditions I set for myself...)...

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Politeness - François Bégaudeau

La politesse - François Bégaudeau

"I want art to be art, the possibility of personal reappropriation, not a tool for manufacturing well-behaved children or citizens." Is this topic trending? After Yasmina Reza (theater), Posy Simmons (comics), Serge Joncour...

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