October 2024

Like every year, here's my roundup of what I read during the fall literary season. French Literature: The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet (Grasset) ♥♥♥ / Running After Shadows by Sigolène Vinson (POL) / An Impossible Love...

Fall 2024 Release. "Because how else do you describe a life spent watching for what you hope to represent in the eyes of others, constantly erasing, correcting, and modifying attitudes, gestures, and postures, solely to be..."

"There's an unfortunate truth every traveler eventually confronts: nowhere in the world exists, no matter how exotic, distant, or beautiful, where boredom doesn't eventually settle in." It starts when Mischa, a young American journalist...

This is the news I've been waiting for since the announcement three months ago: digital lending is finally available at Paris city libraries. Obviously it's restricted to registered library cardholders...

Fall 2024 Release. "Now I can admit it: the writing that had occupied me for so long, that had profoundly transformed my existence and was so precious to me, terrified me." Delphine is a writer. Her latest book, deeply personal...

Fall 2024 Release. "Sometimes it's difficult to express certain feelings. I wish I could express what I feel. But intimate things are the hardest to express." Let's be honest: reading Christine is complicated...

Fall 2024 Release. "The past never passes, it's not even the past - that's what Faulkner said - it's just a dimension of the present." For years, Enric Marco was a hero of Spanish history: civil war combatant...