The Edible Woman by Margaret ATWOOD 281 p. Read for my own Reading Challenge – published in 1969 – ABOUT THE BOOK The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world [...]
Archive for January, 2011
28 Jan
Good books for your week-end 01/29-30
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 01/28-29/2011 My own library Today the picture is not very fancy, but it shows the coziness of my own library-prayer corner. It’s a very small and quiet room, all you need for perfect reading hours. This past week was eventful, with – the last dot given to a 250 [...]
25 Jan
My Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge
Beth Fish Reads just posted on her blog a list of Reading Challenges I had not run into yet. Can you guess what happened? Of course I managed to join another Challenge, called My Dewey Decimal Challenge. It is hosted by The Introverted Reader. It is simple, you just need to read Non-Fiction books. There [...]
25 Jan
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LE CARRÉ 256 p. Read for this Reading Challenge: – What’s in a name. http://whatsinaname4.blogspot.com/. Category Movement Incidentally: I had chosen another title for this Challenge Category, Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs. The book description says “by turns horrifying and hilarious.” It was [...]
24 Jan
Graphic Classics: Mark Twain
Graphic Classics: Mark Twain by Mark Twain (Author), Tom Pomplun (Editor), George Sellas (Illustrator), Rick Geary (Illustrator), Shary Flenniken (Illustrator), Nick Miller (Illustrator), Simon Gane (Illustrator), Kirsten Ulve (Illustrator), Toni Pawlowsky (Illustrator), Lance Tooks (Illustrator), Lisa K. Weber (Illustrator), Annie Owens (Illustrator), Mary Fleener (Illustrator), Lesley Reppeteaux (Illustrator), William Brown (Illustrator), Florence Cestac (Illustrator), Kevin [...]
24 Jan
Introducing Benedict’s Rule
Introducing Benedict’s Rule: A Program of Formation by Michael CASEY ocso and David TOMLINS ocso 250 p. ABOUT THE BOOK I received this English book from a German publisher who requested me to translate it into French. The French edition will soon be published by the same publisher. If you are interested in [...]
22 Jan
Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
Book bloggers organize all kinds of challenges throughout the year, – some having you read books focused on one topic or another – click on my category Reading Challenges in the left menu of this blog to learn more about those, – some more time sensitive, such as Read-a-Thon, which consists in reading as much [...]
21 Jan
Good books for your week-end 01/22-23
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 01/22-23/2011 It’s cold outside, perfect reason for delving into a pile of good books, even if your home library is not as fancy as this one. Here is my selection, based on books that attracted my attention in book blogs visited this past week: -Blankets : an illustrated novel, [...]
20 Jan
A new book coming by Beth Hoffman!
Did you read my review of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt? Did you like this book as much as I did? If so, rejoice, Beth Hoffman’s 2nd novel is coming. See here
18 Jan
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David GRANN 277 p. ABOUT THE BOOK A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The [...]
17 Jan
The Good Novel bookstore in Paris
For my friends in Paris: http://www.thegoodnovel.com/ I juts love the name! A play on word with La Bonne Nouvelle – the Good News, meaning The Gospel, or just like when you receive a good news! Ah, ces Français!!
17 Jan
20,000 Bloggers Have Caught the BookSneeze Bug
20,000 Bloggers Have Caught the BookSneeze Bug (Nashville, Tenn.) In October 2008, Thomas Nelson launched a revolutionary new program mobilizing bloggers around the world to share reviews of the company’s latest products, Thomas Nelson Book Review Bloggers. The response was tremendous. In the first fourteen months, 7,500 bloggers signed on to read and review Nelson [...]
14 Jan
Good books for your week-end 01/15-16
GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUR WEEK-END 01/15-16/2011 Jimmy Stewart’s library – see here more pictures of private libraries I am trying to launch a one day a week event, – that I’ll post every Friday, hopefully, – to give you ideas of possible books to read, – and at the same time give me the opportunity [...]
13 Jan
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem ALEICHEM 374 p. ABOUT THE BOOK Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the [...]
8 Jan
History of the Monks of Egypt – on work
In a book on the Rule of Saint Benedict that I am currently translating from English into French, I just found this great passage on the Desert Fathers: In the country around Arsinoe, we saw a certain Serapion, priest and father of many monasteries: under his care he had more than ten thousand monks, in [...]
