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Flaubert’s desperate housewife Madame Bovary

2012 is coming to an end and I can rejoice for having read at least one classic this year: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. You would think they make us read it in French school, but no they don’t. We get other terribly boring literature (when you’re 14 that is) like Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac. Presumably to […]
December 21, 2012
La mémoire des murs by Tatiana de Rosnay

Another novel from de Rosnay. My local librarian must have taken a liking to her, most of her books are available there. Although, I must say I don’t mind at all, she is a very good writer after all.
November 15, 2012
The post that won’t be a post

This is somewhat embarrassing. I was about to write about Love over Scotland and how much I enjoyed Alexander McCall Smith’s series when I realised upon doing some research that I read volume 3 after volume 1 and skipped Espresso Tales. Well done me. I blame the librarians for their deceiving organisation (or lack of). So […]
November 04, 2012
Vous plaisantez, monsieur Tanner ?

For the first book from Jean-Paul Dubois, I might have picked the wrong one. The author is rather well-known in France and perhaps I raised my expectations too high, but I have not found the book to deserve the success it had.
October 14, 2012
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay

This is my latest read, although I read the French translation, Rose, and this is definitely a good book. First of all, I must say I feel like I live in a cave, for I never heard of the author until now and I borrowed the novel in my local library by chance. As it […]
October 06, 2012
David Lodge’s Home Truths

Ah, dear, dear Mr. David Lodge, should you read this blog post, know that you have become on of my favourite authors, although it did not start under the best circumstances. I first heard -and read -of David Lodge with The Art of Fiction (1992). It was actually the very first book on the reading list […]
June 15, 2011
Valérie Saubade’s Happy Birthday, Grand-Mère

Out of three books I rented out from Hamburg’s Main Library last week, two turned out to be dissapointing, to the point that I did not finish reading them. However, I will not slaughter those books for two reasons. First, I do not like to talk about things I do not like and second, I […]
June 05, 2011
Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series – over or not?

I just finished reading Larsson’s last (or latest?) opus of the Millenium trilogy. As you know, the Swedish author died in 2004 after handing in the three books featuring Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander to his editor. Larsson never got to witness the success story his work deserves – worldwide best sellers, movies, huge fan […]
May 08, 2011