en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:16:44 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 34454589 320 Margaret Atwood 1328879941 Alice 0 currently-reading 4.30 1985
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Alice
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]]> 222571179 272 Clémentine Beauvais Alice 5 4.25
author: Clémentine Beauvais
name: Alice
average rating: 4.25
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J'ai eu la chance de lire une première version de ce livre l'année dernière, quand je travaillais chez Sarbacane, que j'avais déjà adoré à l'époque, et j'avais extrêmement hâte de lire la version finale dont j'attendais la sortie avec impatience. Verdict : je suis tellement heureuse de vivre dans la même timeline que Clémentine Beauvais. Chacun de ses livres m'impressionne plus que le précédent, à la fois par leur ingéniosité, par leur originalité et par leur humour qui ose tellement de choses. Elle me donne l'impression que tout est possible, qu'on peut réellement écrire pour son propre plaisir et quand même rencontrer le succès. Cette enquête, qui m'a beaucoup fait penser aux Facétieuses dans le ton du récit, était à la fois drôle et captivante, et malgré mon grand âge, j'attends avec une impatience d'enfant la sortie du tome 2 !
]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]> 391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 Alice 5 4.34 2009
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Alice
average rating: 4.34
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rating: 5
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Third time reading it, for the first time after having read SOTR and everything hits so much harder and this series will never make me stop crying and gushing because it's SO GOOD. Can't wait to dive back into Mockingjay now, even though I know it's gonna hurt. A lot.
]]> 222533641 Une flamme s’allume et se propage. Et le silence devient plus bruyant que les mots.]]> 448 Coline Pierré 2080480111 Alice 0 to-read 4.59
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]]> 808627 A cette époque, des charrettes et des fiacres roulaient dans les rues, et quand une auto arrivait, on l'entendait venir de bien loin... Alors les chevaux prenaient le mors aux dents, et les gens couraient s'abriter sous les portes cochères... C'est pour vous dire que le monde change vite... Mais il y a une chose qui ne changera jamais : c'est l'amour des enfants pour leur mère, et j'ai écrit ce livre pour apprendre aux petites filles comment leurs fils les aimeront un jour...]]> 221 Marcel Pagnol 2877060519 Alice 4 4.12 1957
author: Marcel Pagnol
name: Alice
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1957
rating: 4
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]]> 199793628 From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself.

The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist.

With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that’s how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It’s easy enough, giving tours. Low risk of fire. High chance of getting bored talking about stained glass and nut cutlets and Prohibition.

Oh, and the deaths. Did anyone mention the deaths?]]> 384 Maureen Johnson 0063255952 Alice 4 3.71 2024
author: Maureen Johnson
name: Alice
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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I love everything Maureen Johnson writes and this book is no exception. After a terrible start of the month reading-wise, this YA mystery novel was more than welcome and I was instantly pulled into the story and wanted to keep reading. I agree with other reviews that there isn't much actual detective work being done for either of the plot points, as the stories kinda reveal themselves on their own, which is a bummer, but it was still very fun and enjoyable and I'm so happy I read it!!
]]> 2767052
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins Alice 5 4.34 2008
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Alice
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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March 2025 - this is my third time reading this book, the first time being 16 years ago when I was in middle school and the second time being 2 years ago, before The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out in theatres. This reread was of course prompted by my reading Sunrise on the Reaping, which gave me a completely new outlook at the original trilogy. Reading The Hunger Games this time around, with all this new knowledge about Haymitch's past, completely changed my point of view and the way I felt about the story and the characters. I was already a huge fan before that, but this last read WRECKED me and make me fully realize how incredibly intricate and well put-together this story is. Every little detail counts and the parallels between this book and SOTR are breathtaking. It was a pleasure (and a torture) to get through it and I can't wait to continue with my reread of Catching Fire!! Suzanne Collins, the woman you are!!!
]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 387 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Alice 5
THANK GOD FOR THIS BOOK which took me out of my reading slump!! I was so hyped for it and it 100% lived up to my expectations. Nothing compares to a worldwide buddy read like this, when everyone is so hyped for a new release and the book is all over the Internet. I'm living for the comeback of the Tiktok edits and I loved loved loved being able to talk through my read with my friends.

Even though the resolution was inevitable, I loved finally being able to learn about Haymitch's game, what *really* went down in the arena instead of what the capitol made us believe for all these years. I can't wait to dive back into the original trilogy with a new set of eyes now that I have all this new knowledge, and I am very admirative of Suzanne Collins' ability to write a book that fits so well into this universe, so many years after the first books came out. The fact that the topic is still relevant to our society is scary but SOTR carries a beautiful message of hope and resilience!!]]> 4.62 2025
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Alice
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2025
rating: 5
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THANK GOD FOR THIS BOOK which took me out of my reading slump!! I was so hyped for it and it 100% lived up to my expectations. Nothing compares to a worldwide buddy read like this, when everyone is so hyped for a new release and the book is all over the Internet. I'm living for the comeback of the Tiktok edits and I loved loved loved being able to talk through my read with my friends.

Even though the resolution was inevitable, I loved finally being able to learn about Haymitch's game, what *really* went down in the arena instead of what the capitol made us believe for all these years. I can't wait to dive back into the original trilogy with a new set of eyes now that I have all this new knowledge, and I am very admirative of Suzanne Collins' ability to write a book that fits so well into this universe, so many years after the first books came out. The fact that the topic is still relevant to our society is scary but SOTR carries a beautiful message of hope and resilience!!
]]> 222376889 The Hazel Wood meets Laini Taylor in this gorgeous speculative tale of sisterhood, ghosts and old family curses.

Are the four Farthing sisters really descended from Persephone? This is what their aunt has always told that the women in their family can trace their lineage right back to the Goddess of the Dead. And maybe she's right, because the Farthing girls do have a ghost in the attic of their Manhattan brownstone —a kind and gentle ghost named Henry, who only they can see.

When one of the sisters falls in love with the ghost, and another banishes him to the Underworld, the sisters are faced with even bigger questions about who they are. If they really are related to Persephone, and they really are a bit magic, then perhaps it’s up to them to save Henry, to save the world, and to save each other.]]> 336 Katrina Leno 1250342902 Alice 0 to-read 4.56 2025
author: Katrina Leno
name: Alice
average rating: 4.56
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]]> 24728470 M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.]]> 256 Patti Smith 1101875100 Alice 0 currently-reading 4.00 2015
author: Patti Smith
name: Alice
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
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]]> 20564834 Un faux carré pour retrouver les ambiances et leformat original des pleines pages réalisées par Claude Lapointe,une couverture avec dos effet toilé et une maquette éléganteet moderne font de ce titre phare de Pierre Gripari un album cadeau incontournable, à la fois traditionnel et actuel.]]> 193 Pierre Gripari 2246786916 Alice 2 4.42 1967
author: Pierre Gripari
name: Alice
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1967
rating: 2
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J'adorais la série télé des Contes de la rue Broca quand j'étais petite, j'ai toujours la chanson en tête et j'y repense souvent avec nostalgie. Malheureusement, j'aurais dû me contenter de mes souvenirs plutôt que de lire ces contes qui sont assez inconstants sur leur représentation - parfois étonnamment misogynes ou racistes, mais d'autres fois très ouverts et inclusifs. Globalement, beaucoup de ces contes m'ont dérangée pour une raison ou une autre et je n'aurais pas envie de les lire à des enfants.
]]> 195467897 It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known—where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.]]> 122 Anne de Marcken 180427075X Alice 5 3.81 2024
author: Anne de Marcken
name: Alice
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 5
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Oh this book. It is perfect. I have no words to describe it. There is something so poetic and beautiful and heartwrenching about zombies and the apocalypse, it just speaks to me so deeply. I knew I would love this story as soon as I heard about it, I searched for it everywhere but it was out of print, I ordered it not knowing when it would be available, and when it finally came to me I was afraid that it wouldn't meet my expectations but it did, and it did more than that, it was the book I had waited for this whole month, it made all of my previous, bad reads disappear, now I am whole again and I love reading and I want to keep this book under my pillow of carve a hole under my heart to store it in there.
]]> 177148776 128 Anne de Marcken 0811237850 Alice 5 3.70 2024
author: Anne de Marcken
name: Alice
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> 34510
But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill?

As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...

THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...

SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...

EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of "Blown Away," the oddest Civil War picture ever made...

A Passionate Saga Set Against the background of a World Gone Mad!

This Will Amaze You!

With a Thousand Elephants!

("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book...")]]> 396 Terry Pratchett 0552152943 Alice 3 I appreciate the incredible work that Pratchett has done with this one and found it just as funny as his other Discworld books, but I was painfully aware during the entirety of the book that he was making pop culture references that I just couldn't grasp. I am sure I would've enjoyed it more, had I possessed a greater knowledge of the world of Hollywood and - as I learned from reading another review - maybe Lovecraft in particular? Anyway, fun times, will definitely pick up the next in line at some point, I love to know that this series will follow me for many years to come!]]> 3.97 1990
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Alice
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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I appreciate the incredible work that Pratchett has done with this one and found it just as funny as his other Discworld books, but I was painfully aware during the entirety of the book that he was making pop culture references that I just couldn't grasp. I am sure I would've enjoyed it more, had I possessed a greater knowledge of the world of Hollywood and - as I learned from reading another review - maybe Lovecraft in particular? Anyway, fun times, will definitely pick up the next in line at some point, I love to know that this series will follow me for many years to come!
]]> 58900925 48 Cecilia Heikkilä 2366245904 Alice 4 4.42
author: Cecilia Heikkilä
name: Alice
average rating: 4.42
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]]> 56616095 (back cover)]]> 288 Sylvia Plath 0060837020 Alice 2 Was also very put off by the racism, homophobia and fatphobia present throughout this book, especially since on the other hand there were really strong feminist reflexions, but I guess these themes don't always go hand in hand, and especially at that time... Still, it was hard for me to just push past that.]]> 4.11 1963
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Alice
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1963
rating: 2
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Oook so this was NOT for me. I spent the first half of the book wondering when the story was going to pick up, only to suddenly be served the most depressing and morbid account of a life (can't really call it a "story", can we?). I am fully aware that the character of Esther was very much a self insert of Sylvia Plath and I believe this is not an exaggerated account of what being depressed can feel like, but as much as I can imagine how someone who feels the same might be able to relate to this book, I struggle to understand how it could be in any way helpful to them. I know it's not supposed to be a self help book or anything, and I was probably very ill at ease while reading this because I am not prone to depression and it always make me sad to walk in a depressed character's shoes and to be hit in the face with the reality that some people do live with these kinds of thoughts, but the truth is I don't want to suffer from cover to cover when I read a book. Maybe if I'd studied it in a class I would've been able to understand the meaningfulness of this book, but from a reading-should-be-fun standpoint, this was evidently a miss.
Was also very put off by the racism, homophobia and fatphobia present throughout this book, especially since on the other hand there were really strong feminist reflexions, but I guess these themes don't always go hand in hand, and especially at that time... Still, it was hard for me to just push past that.
]]> 713621 Mystérieusement libérées de leur geôle, elles entreprennent sur une terre déserte une longue errance à la recherche d’autres humains � ou d’une explication. Elles ne découvrent que d’autres caves analogues, peuplées de cadavres.
On a pu parler de Kafka, de Paul Auster ou du DĂ©sert des Tartares au sujet de cette Ĺ“uvre Ă  la fois cauchemardesque et sereine, impassible et bouleversante.]]> 192 Jacqueline Harpman Alice 0 to-read 4.19 1995
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Alice
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1995
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]]> 199698485 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.]]> 490 Liz Moore Alice 0 to-read 4.15 2024
author: Liz Moore
name: Alice
average rating: 4.15
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]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky Alice 3 In the end I think I simply didn't relate to Charlie as much as many people did, wether it be because I didn't go through big childhood traumas like he did, or because I am well past his age and simply can't relate to him *anymore* (even though I'm not sure I would've been able to relate to him 15 years ago either). I liked some parts of the book, there were some interesting conversations and reflexions, but it didn't wow me like I was told it would.]]> 4.24 1999
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: Alice
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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I'm a bit confused at this book and I'm not sure I understand it fully. I was certain Charlie was Autistic during the entirety of the book, but while reading some reviews, it appears this was not the author's intent. He's supposed to be an introvert, but his extroverted friends have no trouble "teaching" him how to get out of his shell and he seems okay with it, which doesn't really fit the attitude of an introverted person imo. In the end, I think that his attitude has less to do with potential autism or the fact that he's an introvert, and more with the result of some unprocessed trauma, even though I feel like it hasn't been explained in a very effective way.
In the end I think I simply didn't relate to Charlie as much as many people did, wether it be because I didn't go through big childhood traumas like he did, or because I am well past his age and simply can't relate to him *anymore* (even though I'm not sure I would've been able to relate to him 15 years ago either). I liked some parts of the book, there were some interesting conversations and reflexions, but it didn't wow me like I was told it would.
]]> 200742222
RĂŞvant d'ĂŞtre actrice, elle devient une des premières stars transgenres en entrant dans le cercle très fermĂ© d'Andy Warhol et sa Factory, en jouant dans une pièce de Tennessee Williams ""Off-Broadway"", et en interagissant avec le tout New York des annĂ©es 1960-1970.Ěý

Jeremiah Newton, son plus proche ami, nous confie les jalons de son parcours et nous plonge dans une intimité inédite qui révèle les épreuves traversées par cette femme disparue trop tôt, à l'âge de 29 ans. "]]> 0 Julian Voloj 2368467998 Alice 3 3.64
author: Julian Voloj
name: Alice
average rating: 3.64
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Un sujet très intéressant mais j'ai trouvé que les chapitres ne s'enchaînaient pas d'une manière assez fluide pour réussir à suivre confortablement l'histoire. Je crois que l'auteur a voulu trop en raconter (et je le comprends, j'aurais aimé en savoir plus sur tout ce qu'il a mentionné !) mais dans un format BD, il vaut parfois mieux se concentrer sur moins de choses pour mieux réussir à développer les points en profondeur. Là, tout n'était que survolé et chaque chapitre se terminait de manière abrupte en laissant plein de questions derrière eux. Ça reste néanmoins une bonne entrée en matière pour découvrir Candy Darling et ça pousse à vouloir se renseigner un peu plus sur sa vie et son entourage !
]]> 60700414
Rintarô Natsuki, lycéen flegmatique, est sur le point de fermer la librairie héritée de son grand-père quand il reçoit une visite inattendue. Au milieu des livres, il découvre un gros chat brun tigré, un chat qui parle ! Et ce félin exprime une requête plutôt inhabituelle : il demande - ou plutôt exige - l'aide de l'adolescent pour aller sauver des livres.
Le monde serait en effet peuplé de livres solitaires, non lus et mal aimés que le chat et Rintarô se doivent de libérer de leurs propriétaires négligents.
Le duo atypique se lance alors dans une quête périlleuse au coeur de labyrinthes extraordinaires...]]> 248 Sōsuke Natsukawa 2378910932 Alice 2 3.62 2017
author: SĹŤsuke Natsukawa
name: Alice
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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Bien que le propos du livre ait été intéressant (il parle avant tout d'amour pour les livre et du pouvoir qu'ils ont sur les lecteurs), je n'ai pas été une grande fan de l'exécution. J'ai trouvé que les péripéties étaient trop simples, avec des menaces trop faciles à éviter, et en même temps l'histoire était pleine de contradictions. J'ai eu beaucoup de mal avec la prose, je ne saurais dire à quel point c'était lié à la traduction ou au style de l'auteur en général, mais beaucoup de tournures de phrases et de réactions des personnages m'ont fait sortir de ma lecture. Au final, j'ai survolé le dernier quart et je pense que j'aurais abandonné ma lecture si le livre avait été plus long.
]]> 28051948 355 Benedict Wells 3257069588 Alice 0 to-read 4.49 2016
author: Benedict Wells
name: Alice
average rating: 4.49
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]]> 213111930
There’s a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us . . . It’s love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things.

What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs—Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?

The answer can only be chaos: There are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be believed.

There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love—and the joy and recognition of family.

Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) is a tender, motley, and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty—but also the visceral truth of the natural world—straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.]]> 240 Markus Zusak 0063426072 Alice 0 to-read 4.02 2024
author: Markus Zusak
name: Alice
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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The lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.
Ěý
Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.]]> 181 Tove Jansson 1590173295 Alice 0 to-read 3.90 1982
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]]> 891672 The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.]]> 208 Tove Jansson 0954899520 Alice 0 to-read 3.90 2006
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]]> 51190882
Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

Librarian Note: Older cover of B07VH6Y4JD.]]> 119 Nghi Vo Alice 4 3.91 2020
author: Nghi Vo
name: Alice
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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I listened to this story on audiobook and, while it was really enjoyable and I had a great time, I feel like I might have understood it better and connected with the characters a bit more if I had read it physically. Nevertheless, I found myself really drawn to this world and I'm curious to get to the next books in this series!
]]> 29939230 Witness the fate of beloved heroes - and enemies.

THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED...
The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.

WHO WILL CRUMBLE?
Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?

WHO WILL RISE?
Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.

WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?
And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.]]> 624 Victoria E. Schwab 0765387468 Alice 4 physical-tbr This one took me a very long time to read. I think I had trouble following along because of how much time has passed since I read books 1 and 2 (I'm talking like 5 years or so), so I had forgotten a lot of things, some of which stayed confusing until the end of the book. Maybe I should've reread the first installments before tackling this one, but I didn't want to. In the end, I still enjoyed it, but maybe not as much as I would've a few years ago. It's a satisfying ending to a series I adored and I'm always a sucker for VE Schwab's stories so I am mostly happy with it.
(I will say though, I found that the characters were drinking a tad too much for my liking, and I am somewhat disturbed by the concept of a magic system that requires constant self-harm, but those might be considerations I have to set aside if I want to enjoy fantasy, so I won't hold it too much against the book.)]]> 4.30 2017
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: Alice
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 4
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3.5
This one took me a very long time to read. I think I had trouble following along because of how much time has passed since I read books 1 and 2 (I'm talking like 5 years or so), so I had forgotten a lot of things, some of which stayed confusing until the end of the book. Maybe I should've reread the first installments before tackling this one, but I didn't want to. In the end, I still enjoyed it, but maybe not as much as I would've a few years ago. It's a satisfying ending to a series I adored and I'm always a sucker for VE Schwab's stories so I am mostly happy with it.
(I will say though, I found that the characters were drinking a tad too much for my liking, and I am somewhat disturbed by the concept of a magic system that requires constant self-harm, but those might be considerations I have to set aside if I want to enjoy fantasy, so I won't hold it too much against the book.)
]]> 220334 Recuerdos de la Infancia del cineasta y escritor francés Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). Pagnol fue un cuentista, un inventor de historias, un fabricante de sueños.]]> 216 Marcel Pagnol 2877065073 Alice 3 4.02 1957
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 217131856 IL EST SA CRÉATION.

ELLE NE SERA PAS SA CRÉATURE.

Le jour, Marie Couston est prof de français contractuelle dans un lycée. La nuit, elle écrit sous pseudo de la romance érotique. Mais lorsque son éditrice exige qu’elle abandonne ses romans cucul pour de la dark romance, Marie voit rouge. En clair, on lui demande de rendre sexy des violences conjugales et sexuelles� Sans regret, et un peu saoule, Marie décide de tuer son personnage principal avant de s’endormir.

Au réveil, elle n’en croit pas ses yeux : un inconnu est assis sur son canapé. L’homme, très beau dans son costume sur mesure hors de prix, lui explique alors le plus sérieusement du monde qu’il est James Cooper, le mâle alpha de sa romance et de ses fantasmes�

Hilarante et engagée,
la comédie romantique que vous attendiez,
sans savoir que vous l’attendiez.

« Menée tambour battant, cette comédie maligne pose de vraies questions : peut-on être féministe et attirée par quelqu’un qu’on devrait détester ?
Des décennies de représentations stéréotypées du désir ont-elles bousillé nos boussoles ? Un “conte de fesses� qui fait à la fois rire et réfléchir ? Cucul a tout bon ! »
ELLE

Camille Emmanuelle est auteure, scénariste et journaliste, spécialisée sur les questions de sexualités et de genre. Son premier roman, Cucul, est en cours d’adaptation.]]> 238 Camille Emmanuelle 2386431827 Alice 0 to-read 3.70
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]]> 34607044
Patti Smith, a National Book Award-winning author, first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing.

The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.]]> 95 Patti Smith 0300218621 Alice 0 to-read 3.86 2017
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.86
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]]> 198806349
Ida ist eine Autorin ohne Worte. Ihr Kopf ist so leer wie die weißen Blätter Papier auf ihrem Schreibtisch. Aus der Not heraus nimmt sie einen Haushaltsjob an und lebt fortan bei der älteren Dame Ottilie, die ungern spricht und mit jedem Tag ohne Worte und Silben ein wenig mehr zu verblassen scheint. In dem heruntergekommenen Herrenhaus findet Ida bald unter dicken Schichten aus Staub, Moder und Vergangenheit unzählige Schätze aus Papier und Erinnerungen; Erinnerungen eines Lebens in Glanz, der nach und nach abblättert. Bald erkennt Ida, dass Ottilies Faden zur Gegenwart zu reißen droht � und Ida Worte finden muss, um Ottilies Verblassen zu verhindern. Im Schein des Kaminfeuers beginnt Ida eine Geschichte zu erzählen, die nicht nur Ottilies alte Wunden zu heilen vermag, sondern auch Ida eine Antwort auf ihre drängendste Frage liefert � jene nach dem Gewicht der Worte.]]> 257 Katharina Seck 3749906661 Alice 0 to-read 4.12 2024
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]]> 208430625 From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book� (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world.

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildestĚýimaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.

Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel.

But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures.

Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.]]> 224 Katherine Rundell 0385550820 Alice 0 to-read 4.18 2024
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]]> 51938590 Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with whatĚýhas becomeĚýknown as the “eel questionâ€�: Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogether? Even today, in an age of advanced science, no one has ever seen eels mating or giving birth, and we still don’t understand what drives them, after living for decades in freshwater, to swim great distances back to the ocean at the end of their lives. They remain a mystery.

Drawing on a breadth of research about eels in literature, history, and modern marine biology, as well as his own experience fishing for eels with his father, Patrik Svensson writes a book about this unusual animal.

InĚýThe Book of Eels,Ěýwe meet renowned historical thinkers, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud to Rachel Carson, for whom the eel was a singular obsession. And we meet the scientists who spearheaded the search for the eel’s point of origin, including Danish marine biologist Johannes Schmidt, who led research efforts in the early twentieth century, catching thousands upon thousands of eels, in the hopes of proving their birthing grounds in the Sargasso Sea.

Blending memoir and nature writing, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death.]]> 256 Patrik Svensson 0062968815 Alice 0 to-read 3.91 2019
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 60769830 How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.]]> 263 Sabrina Imbler 0316540536 Alice 0 to-read 4.10 2022
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.10
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]]> 43604087
Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that’ll inspire a work worthy of her parentage—and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley.

Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond the arts—in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Alas, no matter how precise Ada’s calculations, there’s always a man willing to claim her ingenious ideas as his own.

Pan, a.k.a. Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet: a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to make him truly autonomous . . . or how to make him work at all.

When fate connects our two masterminds, Mary and Ada learn that they are fae—magical people with the ability to make whatever they imagine become real. But when their dream team results in a living, breathing, thinking PAN, Mary and Ada find themselves hunted by a mad scientist who won't stop until he finds out how they made a real boy out of spare parts.

With comic genius and a truly electrifying sense of adventure, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn history on its head in this YA fantasy that’s perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.]]> 496 Cynthia Hand 0062930079 Alice 3 3.78 2022
author: Cynthia Hand
name: Alice
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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A bit disappointed by this installment, it didn't compare to the 3 Jane books for me... I think I had high expectations because I love Frankenstein and hoped for something similar (which I know is a fault of mine, I should've known it wouldn't be the same) and I was not pleased with the fae magic elements of the story. Still found it really funny as always, and I'm eager to read the two other Mary books in the series!
]]> 45754981 From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events–a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients� accounts. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.]]> 307 Emily St. John Mandel 0525521143 Alice 4 3.66 2020
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.66
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I really am in awe of Emily St John Mandel's writing and storytelling. It's gripping and fascinating and I don't know how she does it, but she manages to capture my attention even as she tells of stories that wouldn't normally interest me. A Ponzi scheme?? Sounds boring as HELL to me, *in theory* at least, but the truth is I couldn't put this book down and listened to it in a day! This is my third book of hers I listened to on audiobook and I really feel like it's the right way to experience her stories as she tackles subjects such as alternate realities and ghosts which, to me at least, take on a dreamy, atmospheric feeling when they are told to me rather than read by me. I guess it's easier for me to drift into the story when I don't have to focus on the page? In any case, I was hooked and although I liked Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility a little bit more because I found them more poetic and was more interested in their primary subjects, I was very pleasantly surprised with my reading of The Glass Hotel and can't wait to read more from EStJM!
]]> 13575836 233 Alexandre Dumas 2070300471 Alice 4 Je me suis beaucoup amusée à lire ce livre, Dumas est vraiment drôle et j'étais maintenue en haleine jusqu'au bout ! J'ai envie de lire Le comte de Monte Cristo depuis très longtemps, mais je suis contente d'avoir lu cette histoire-là d'abord pour me familiariser avec son écriture sur un texte bien plus court.]]> 3.70 1844
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Alice
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1844
rating: 4
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3.5
Je me suis beaucoup amusée à lire ce livre, Dumas est vraiment drôle et j'étais maintenue en haleine jusqu'au bout ! J'ai envie de lire Le comte de Monte Cristo depuis très longtemps, mais je suis contente d'avoir lu cette histoire-là d'abord pour me familiariser avec son écriture sur un texte bien plus court.
]]> 59003528
Comme tous les matins, Iode attend impatiemment cette lettre que le facteur tarde à lui apporter. Surement une blague de ce farceur de poisson-clown qui s’amuse à livrer son courrier aux voisins... Ou peut-être a-t-il simplement été égaré ? Il n'y a qu'un seul moyen d’en avoir le cœur net : se rendre en ville. Embarqué dans sa petite auto vert pomme, Iode fait la rencontre de Frangine, une autostoppeuse au caractère bien trempé qui effectue une livraison pour le compte du mystérieux groupe mafieux « la pieuvre ». Seulement, lorsque cette dernière décide de lui fausser compagnie, le jeune garçon s’inquiète et décide naïvement de partir à sa recherche. Sans le savoir, Iode vient de mettre les pieds dans une affaire qui le placera au cœur d'un terrible drame.

Sur l’île du soleil où poissons et humains cohabitent, mafieux sans vergognes et policiers incompétents sont monnaie courante. Une cavalcade absurde naviguant entre humour, douceur et drame mélancolique. Un premier roman graphique réalisé par un prodige du dessin nourri au travail de Hayao Miyazaki. Un récit où la rondeur du dessin et la beauté irradiante des couleurs forment paradoxalement une œuvre tragique qui perturbera les âmes les plus sensibles.]]> 200 Jim Bishop 2344043446 Alice 4 3.99 2021
author: Jim Bishop
name: Alice
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 4
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C'était absolument magnifique, à la fois hyper drôle et très sérieux, ça aurait été un énorme coup de coeur s'il n'y avait pas eu cette FIN ??? Je comprends pas ce choix narratif
]]> 200982373 Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him.

Kill for him.

High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for the only person who can ground him to reality―Thomas Rye, the boy with perpetually ink-stained hands and hair like autumn leaves. And with his twin sister, Dove, inexplicably keeping him at a cold distance upon their return to Wickwood Academy, Andrew finds himself leaning on his friend even more.

But something strange is going on with Thomas. His abusive parents have mysteriously vanished, and he arrives at school with blood on his sleeve. Thomas won't say a word about it, and shuts down whenever Andrew tries to ask him questions. Stranger still, Thomas is haunted by something, and he seems to have lost interest in his artwork―whimsically macabre sketches of the monsters from Andrew's wicked stories.

Desperate to figure out what's wrong with his friend, Andrew follows Thomas into the off-limits forest one night and catches him fighting a nightmarish monster―Thomas's drawings have come to life and are killing anyone close to him. To make sure no one else dies, the boys battle the monsters every night. But as their obsession with each other grows stronger, so do the monsters, and Andrew begins to fear that the only way to stop the creatures might be to destroy their creator...]]> 336 C.G. Drews 1250895669 Alice 0 to-read 4.11 2024
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]]> 135981738 Plus exactement Emily et Charlotte Brontë sont célébrées et mondialement reconnues. Leur cadette, Anne, est souvent oubliée, au mieux décrite comme la plus sensible des trois.
Prisonnière d'un monde qui a toujours attendu d'elle quiétude et douceur, Anne fait fi des mises en garde de ses aînées, prenant le risque d'écrire et de laisser jaillir sa propre voix...]]> 216 Paulina Spucches 2368466649 Alice 4 4.29
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name: Alice
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]]> 56590186 This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.

Marra never wanted to be a hero.

As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. But her sister wasn’t so fortunate—and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince.

Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks:
—build a dog of bones
—sew a cloak of nettles
—capture moonlight in a jar

But, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning.

Hero or not—now joined by a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar—Marra might finally have the courage to save her sister, and topple a throne.]]> 259 T. Kingfisher Alice 0 to-read 4.26 2022
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Alice
average rating: 4.26
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]]> 209789171 Entre les faussaires charmeurs, les hors-la-loi rugueux, les madames de lupanar, les majors poivre-et-sel, les héritières en fleur et autres rencontres fascinantes, vous aurez joyeusement l'occasion de vous fourrer dans le pétrin. Finirez-vous institutrice ? Chercheuse d'or ? Infirmière ? Trappeuse ? Épouse respectable ? Ou même... Reine de l'Ouest ?
Dans tous les cas, vous resterez vous-mĂŞme : brillante, drĂ´le et libre, l'inimitable Miss Jones !]]> 672 H. Lenoir Alice 4 4.07
author: H. Lenoir
name: Alice
average rating: 4.07
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J'ai vraiment adoré ce roman qui contient une multitude d'histoires, je l'ai trouvé addictif comme un jeu vidéo et même si j'ai évidemment été au bout de l'aventure avec mes personnages préférés en premier et qu'ils me restait ensuite les relations qui me plaisaient le moins, j'ai tout de même été happée jusqu'au dernier chapitre (parce que oui. J'ai fait un fichier excel et coché tous les chapitres lus pour être sûre d'avoir été au BOUT de ce livre.) parce que j'étais fascinée par la mécanique d'imbrication des différentes trames narratives, et que j'avais toujours envie de savoir où serait emmenée Miss Jones si j'avais fait un autre choix. Pour quelqu'un qui a du mal à prendre des decisions comme moi, ce type de livres est un vrai régal : I can just have it all!
]]> 220341389 John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.]]> 208 John Green 0525556575 Alice 0 to-read 4.52 2025
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]]> 56988057
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.

Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo hints at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats� secrets. He has one of his own, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act can have dangerous consequences: the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal.

June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.]]> 400 Maggie Stiefvater 0593655508 Alice 0 to-read 4.04 2025
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Alice
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 165553262 144 Liuba Gabriele 8833142620 Alice 2 Je ne sais pas si c'est la traduction qui est mauvaise mais je n'ai pas apprécié la manière dont c'était écrit (en plus des virgules intempestives et de la typo qui change pour les À, j'ai conscience d'être plus sensible que d'autres à ces petits détails) et j'ai trouvé que ça dressait un portrait extrêmement déprimant de la vie d'Emily Dickinson. Alors peut-être qu'elle a vraiment eu une vie déprimante et qu'on n'y peut rien, mais je reste déçue car j'espérais en découvrir plus sur elle...]]> 3.86
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2.5
Je ne sais pas si c'est la traduction qui est mauvaise mais je n'ai pas apprécié la manière dont c'était écrit (en plus des virgules intempestives et de la typo qui change pour les À, j'ai conscience d'être plus sensible que d'autres à ces petits détails) et j'ai trouvé que ça dressait un portrait extrêmement déprimant de la vie d'Emily Dickinson. Alors peut-être qu'elle a vraiment eu une vie déprimante et qu'on n'y peut rien, mais je reste déçue car j'espérais en découvrir plus sur elle...
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Entre un emploi qui lui prend tout son temps et une dépression qui la paralyse, Clara est incapable de terminer le recueil de poésie sur lequel elle travaille. Ses amies tentent de l'aider. Mais ce n'est pas toujours simple de s'ouvrir aux autres et d'expliquer ce que c'est, ce vide qui remplit tout. C'est comme ça que je disparais est le premier récit de fiction signé par Mirion Malle.]]> 206 Mirion Malle 2360121200 Alice 5 4.42 2020
author: Mirion Malle
name: Alice
average rating: 4.42
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rating: 5
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]]> 9057190 90 Wajdi Mouawad 2742783369 Alice 3 physical-tbr 4.39 2003
author: Wajdi Mouawad
name: Alice
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 30165203
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...]]> 635 Neil Gaiman Alice 5 4.11 2001
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Alice
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
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This is my third time reading it and I love it more each time I reread it. This story is perfect. Definitely one of my favorite books of all time.
]]> 136344764
Panayotis Pascot s’attaque d’une plume tranchante et moderne Ă  trois thĂ©matiques qu’il tisse pour composer un rĂ©cit autobiographiqueĚýaussi acideĚýqu’ultralucide. La relation au père, l’acceptation de son homosexualitĂ© et la dĂ©pression s’enchevĂŞtrent ici dans un violent passage Ă  l’âge adulte. Mais la lumière en sort toujours, d’un regard,Ěýd’une façon d’observer le quotidien avecĚýautant de tendresse et d’humour que de clairvoyance.]]> 240 Panayotis Pascot 2234092523 Alice 3 3.94 2023
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> 41052080 Ce livre en explore trois et examine ce qu’il en reste aujourd’hui, dans nos préjugés et nos représentations : la femme indépendante � puisque les veuves et les célibataires furent particulièrement visées ; la femme sans enfant � puisque l’époque des chasses a marqué la fin de la tolérance pour celles qui prétendaient contrôler leur fécondité ; et la femme âgée � devenue, et restée depuis, un objet d’horreur. Enfin, il sera aussi question de la vision du monde que la traque des sorcières a servi à promouvoir, du rapport guerrier qui s’est développé alors tant à l’égard des femmes que de la nature : une double malédiction qui reste à lever.]]> 232 Mona Chollet 2355221227 Alice 4 physical-tbr 4.33 2018
author: Mona Chollet
name: Alice
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> 199531989 Knives Out gets a rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers Christmas romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas.

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt:
She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He’s Mr. Big-Time Thriller Guy.

She hates his guts.

He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)

But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.

She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?

As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.

Assuming they don’t kill each other first.]]> 293 Ally Carter 0063276682 Alice 2 3.92 2024
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 2
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]]> 75715117 Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023'

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.

Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.]]> 288 Chloe Michelle Howarth 0857308416 Alice 0 to-read 4.33 2023
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.33
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]]> 25474173 325 Mona Chollet 2355220778 Alice 0 to-read 4.21 2015
author: Mona Chollet
name: Alice
average rating: 4.21
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]]> 57945316 From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .

Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?]]> 544 R.F. Kuang 0063021420 Alice 2 4.17 2022
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 53344030
Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.]]> 336 Alice Oseman 1444957651 Alice 4 4.47 2023
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.47
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]]> 202775514
Plus qu’� un concours de cuisine, Magda va devoir se confronter à elle-même
et choisir dans quel type de société elle veut vivre…]]> 168 Nicolas Wouters 2377317995 Alice 4 4.43
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]]> 196209072 Et la petite Ronce, qui avait une façon bien personnelle d’occuper les 10 % restants. C’est à cette époque-là que tout a vrillé. Là qu’Ortie a commis un impair de catégorie supérieure, qui lui a pavé la voie vers de très sérieux problèmes.
Premier tome d’un diptyque de fantasy inventif, chaleureux et trash : une histoire de sorcières qui renouvelle le genre, par l’autrice de Bordeterre.]]> 421 Julia Thevenot 2075179018 Alice 5 4.21
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]]> 57837156 104 Jonathan Garnier 2344042172 Alice 5 4.47
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]]> 199649548 224 Mirion Malle 2360121669 Alice 5 4.57 2024
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average rating: 4.57
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]]> 68930
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gulbrandsen, is less fortunate � shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.

Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real reason for Mr Gulbrandsen’s visit.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "They Do It with Mirrors." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."]]> 224 Agatha Christie 0451199901 Alice 4 physical-tbr 3.78 1952
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 202775511
Mais la jeune femme a besoin de renouer avec ses racines, et puisque son père ne veut pas parler, elle ira chercher des réponses ailleurs. À commencer auprès de ses amis, immigrés portugais, qui ont eux la langue bien pendue. De la région parisienne à Lisbonne, Madeleine recueille leurs récits de vie. Peu à peu, elle remonte le fil de l’histoire du Portugal et, à travers elle, tente d’en apprendre plus sur elle-même.]]> 176 Madeleine Pereira Alice 5 4.37 2024
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 5
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]]> 152267598 144 Jakob Martin Strid Alice 4 4.38
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name: Alice
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]]> 209789536 128 Anne-Fleur Multon Alice 4 3.92
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.92
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]]> 205009154 112 Anne-Fleur Multon Alice 3 4.19
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 62618860 0 Elodie BOUEDEC 2246830133 Alice 3 3.67
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]]> 91552 A Welton, un austère collège du Vermont, dans les années 60, la vie studieuse des pensionnaires est bouleversée par l'arrivée d'un nouveau professeur de lettres, M. Keating.
Ce pédagogue peu orthodoxe va leur communiquer sa passion de la poésie, de la liberté, de l'anticonformisme, secouant la poussière des autorités parentales, académiques et sociales.
Même si le drame - le suicide d'un adolescent - déchire finalement cette expérience unique, même si Keating doit quitter le collège, il restera pour tous celui qui leur a fait découvrir le sens de la vie.

Le roman du film-événement de Peter Weir, Oscar 1990 du meilleur scénario, qui a bouleversé des centaines de milliers de spectateurs.]]> 192 N.H. Kleinbaum 2253058157 Alice 4 4.21 1988
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.21
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]]> 210369254 J'ai placé l'égo devant le miroir de la salle de bains et les émotions dans les odeurs de la cuisine.
J'ai caché l'intime sous mon lit et j'ai soigneusement rangé les souvenirs au grenier.
C'est une maison que j'habite et qui m'habite aussi. Je n'en ai pas les clefs tous les jours mais je m'y sens bien.
Bienvenue à ma journée portes ouvertes.
Math]]> 224 Cht.am 2073075509 Alice 4 4.38
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]]> 218486052 L’Arabe du futur.

Ce nouveau projet repose sur les histoires que Riad Sattouf a recueillies en 2011 et 2012 auprès de son frère Fadi Sattouf.

Dans ce récit, c’est Fadi le narrateur : il retrace son parcours incroyable, de son enfance heureuse en Bretagne auprès de sa mère adorée et de ses grands frères, Riad et Yahya, jusqu’� la Syrie de son père, rude et inconnue pour lui...]]> 136 Riad Sattouf 2959133722 Alice 0 to-read 4.51 2024
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average rating: 4.51
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]]> 219425537 »Wörter für Sex gibt es in drei Kategorien.

In der ersten Kategorie sind die Wörter, die im Biologiebuch stehen und die Erwachsene benutzen, wenn sie mit Kindern darüber reden. So Wörter wie ›Geschlechtsverkehr� und ›Koitus� zum Beispiel. Wo du denkst: Das ist definiftiv keine Sache, die Spaß macht.

In der zweiten Kategorie sind Wörter wie bumsen, ficken, vögeln, poppen, schrauben, rammeln, knallen, nageln, pimpern, flachlegen und so weiter. Wörter, die nach Baumarkt klingen und nach Schweiß. Auf jeden Fall nach etwas, bei dem du die Zähne zusammenbeißen musst, um durchzuhalten.

In der dritten Kategorie sind die weichen Wörter, die Kuschelwörter, die alles ganz rosa und harmlos machen. Sowas wie: Liebe machen. Die Nacht zusammen verbringen. Miteinander schlafen.

Und wenn du es noch nie gemacht hast, guckst du dir das an und denkst dir: HOW THE FUCK KÖNNEN ALL DIESE WÖRTER EIN UND DIESELBE SACHE BESCHREIBEN?«]]> 176 Eva Rottmann 396428243X Alice 5 4.25
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]]> 202174539
Un texte engagé dans lequel Clémentine Beauvais fait de l’éducation au plaisir de lire un véritable enjeu de société.

CLÉMENTINE BEAUVAIS est autrice, traductrice et enseignante-chercheuse. Elle a écrit, entre autres, Les Petites Reines, Songe à la douceur et l’essai sur la littérature jeunesse Écrire comme une abeille. Elle est également la marraine des Petits Champions de la Lecture et chronique ses lectures sur @clementinebleue]]> 32 Clémentine Beauvais Alice 5 4.02 2024
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 50514474 379 Samantha Bailly 2266305697 Alice 0 to-read 3.60
author: Samantha Bailly
name: Alice
average rating: 3.60
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]]> 60623087 Sur internet, il est Zora, pilier de la communauté de fans des Mondes invisibles, la série fantastique culte de Maria Zumaï.
Dans la vraie vie, il est le garçon le moins cool de l'internat.
Un lycéen qui aime discuter en ligne avec Xena, écrire des fanfictions, lire des histoires où deux garçons s'embrassent et se promener au bord d'un lac.

Mais quand la mystérieuse Maria Zumaï interrompt brusquement sa saga, Lucien se retrouve embarqué malgré lui dans une enquête. Une enquête dans les livres pour trouver des vérités dans la vie.]]> 400 Esmé Planchon Alice 0 to-read 4.34
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name: Alice
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]]> 3188842 216 Deb Olin Unferth 1934781096 Alice 0 to-read 3.65 2008
author: Deb Olin Unferth
name: Alice
average rating: 3.65
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]]> 54847474 144 Ariane Lessard 2897071052 Alice 4 3.23 2020
author: Ariane Lessard
name: Alice
average rating: 3.23
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Pas sûre d'avoir tout compris (pas sûre qu'il faille tout comprendre) mais je ne pouvais pas le lâcher et l'ai lu d'une traite. J'ai adoré l'ambiance hypnotique et très imagée.
]]> 202775449 224 El Diablo 2377317928 Alice 4 4.19
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]]> 28813731 Tomes 1 Ă  3 de l'attaque des titans.]]> 580 Hajime Isayama 2811623256 Alice 4 4.54 2010
author: Hajime Isayama
name: Alice
average rating: 4.54
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rating: 4
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]]> 79687792 193 Mariana Enríquez Alice 1 Ce sont des histoires d'horreur, mais pas parce qu'elles font peur : il s'agit plutôt de body horror qui cherche à choquer et dégoûter. C'était gratuit et grossier, et je n'ai pas terminé une seule nouvelle sans avoir cette sensation désagréable de frustration. Le seul avantage de ce livre est qu'il se lit très vite parce que les phrases sont simples, et ce n'est pas vraiment un compliment.]]> 3.73 2009
author: Mariana EnrĂ­quez
name: Alice
average rating: 3.73
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Ça fait bien longtemps que je n'avais pas à ce point détesté une lecture... Je ne sais pas si c'est mal écrit ou simplement mal traduit, mais quelque chose m'a vraiment dérangée dans le style de ces nouvelles. Chacune d'elles se termine sur une phrase qui semble être un milieu de paragraphe, c'est très abrupte et il n'y a jamais de conclusion. Je n'ai pas compris où l'autrice voulait en venir, même lorsque le concept aurait pu être intéressant elle s'arrangeait pour terminer l'histoire sans apporter de résolution.
Ce sont des histoires d'horreur, mais pas parce qu'elles font peur : il s'agit plutôt de body horror qui cherche à choquer et dégoûter. C'était gratuit et grossier, et je n'ai pas terminé une seule nouvelle sans avoir cette sensation désagréable de frustration. Le seul avantage de ce livre est qu'il se lit très vite parce que les phrases sont simples, et ce n'est pas vraiment un compliment.
]]> 57185878 Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.

Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.

Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth.

It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong.

It wasn't her.

Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyyreka, the Land Beneath the Lake--and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people.

But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.]]> 160 Seanan McGuire Alice 0 to-read 4.03 2025
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]]> 127305800 Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning series.

Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.

When her fellow students realize that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, she's forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.

Along the way, temptations are dangled, decisions are reinforced, and a departure to a world populated by dinosaurs brings untold dangers and one or two other surprises!

A story that reminds us that finding what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.]]> 146 Seanan McGuire 1250848504 Alice 0 to-read 4.01 2024
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name: Alice
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 209789587 192 Raphaël Geffray 2377318118 Alice 4 3.56
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name: Alice
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]]> 209789291 128 Benoît Guillaume Alice 3 2.67
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name: Alice
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]]> 36302495 40 Pierre Vaquez 2377310206 Alice 3 4.20
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name: Alice
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]]> 53443538 29 Didier LĂ©vy 2377312500 Alice 3 3.42 2019
author: Didier LĂ©vy
name: Alice
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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]]> 214631681 Ryung et Won-shik sont deux lycéens que tout oppose. Pourtant, quand ils se rencontrent lors d'une soirée, ils décident de se donner rendez-vous pour perdre leur virginité. Très vite pourtant, ils abandonnent cette idée, et s'accordent à n'être " rien " l'un pour l'autre, rien que des inconnus.
Mais c'est sans compter l'attirance mutuelle et la curiosité, qui les amènent à se croiser, à se fuir et à se chercher, presque malgré eux...


Au fil des saisons, une relation entre amitié, hésitations et sentiments amoureux se tisse entre les deux adolescents, mêlant découverte de soi et découverte de l'autre.


Dans la même collection, retrouve les romans Fire on Ice � Livre I, Fire on Ice � Livre II, Dis-le à la mer (Solène Mérono), Page 341 (Élodie Condé), Amour, K-pop et gâteau de riz (Dana Blue), Journal d'une Idol (Nina Dubois) et À un clic de toi (Eva Kim).]]> 258 Blanche Seigneur 2821218052 Alice 5 4.06
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]]> 61685822 From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.]]> 257 Claire Dederer 0525655115 Alice 4 3.75 2023
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]]> 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens� life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters� trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 Alice 0 to-read 4.09 2022
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]]> 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Alice 5 4.22 1929
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]]> 200539015 My heart has made its mind up
And I'm afraid it's you.

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling, and best-loved poets.

In poems that go from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling—and being—in love to how to manage a painful break-up to cherishing the memories of people loved and lost, this is a collection to savour and share.]]> 53 Wendy Cope 057138952X Alice 0 to-read 4.13 2023
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]]> 207298106 Brought to you by Penguin.

Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls , finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business.

Kelly Bishop’s storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.
Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades.

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]]> 57666546
Rien n’est trop grand pour les deux soeurs, mais sauront-elles rester unies face aux dangers qui les guettent ?]]> 160 Tom Aureille 2377316131 Alice 3 3.82 2022
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]]> 58558604 From the critically acclaimed author of Pet and The Death of Vivek Oji, Bitter, a companion novel to Pet, takes a timely and riveting look at the power of youth, protest and art.

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the town of Lucille.

Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus . . . but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that the adults say is "just the way things are." Pulled between old friendships, her creative passion, and a new romance, Bitter isn't sure where she belongs - in the art studio or in the streets. And if she does find a way to help the revolution while being true to who she is, she must also ask: at what cost?]]> 272 Akwaeke Emezi 0571371205 Alice 4 physical-tbr 4.12 2022
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]]> 25606558 377 Jules Verne Alice 0 3.65 1872
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]]> 55959421
Connecticut, 1950: Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They’ve grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian house, mostly neglected by their distant father and troubled mother, who believes that their house is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons. The girls long to escape, and for most of them, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching consequences.

Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her family, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the family curse forever?]]> 432 Sarai Walker 0358251877 Alice 0 to-read 3.94 2022
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]]> 55761476
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not in the mood for her friend's murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920's fancy dress and pretending that their town, Little Kilton, is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn't the only case on her mind ... Contains mature content, for older readers.]]> 130 Holly Jackson Alice 5 3.74 2021
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]]> 200776812 The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.

There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.

Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back.

Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought?

Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, "The Konkatsu Killer," Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.]]> 464 Asako Yuzuki 0063236400 Alice 0 to-read 3.50 2017
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]]> 21412202 Storm the castle once more

Standing on the stage for the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Princess Bride, I felt an almost overwhelming sense of gratitude and nostalgia. It was a remarkable night and it brought back vivid memories of being part of what appears to have become a cult classic film about pirates and princesses, giants and jesters, cliffs of insanity, and of course rodents of unusual size.

It truly was as fun to make the movie as it is to watch it, from getting to work on William Goldman's brilliant screenplay to being directed by the inimitable Rob Reiner. It is not an exaggeration to say that most days on set were exhilarating, from wrestling André the Giant, to the impossibility of playing mostly dead with Billy Crystal cracking jokes above me, to choreographing the Greatest Sword Fight in Modern Times with Mandy Patinkin, to being part of the Kiss That Left All the Others Behind with Robin Wright.

In this book I've gathered many more behind-the-scenes stories and hopefully answers to many of the questions we've all received over the years from fans. Additionally, Robin, Billy, Rob, and Mandy, as well as Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Fred Savage, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, and William Goldman graciously share their own memories and stories from making this treasured film.

If you'd like to know a little more about the making of The Princess Bride as seen through the eyes of a young actor who got much more than he bargained for, along with the rest of this brilliant cast, then all I can say is...as you wish.]]> 259 Cary Elwes 1476764026 Alice 5 4.16 2014
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]]> 58719208 From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the bad decisions we sometimes make... and the people who help get us back on the right path.

Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and What If It's Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.

Just days before spring break, Neil Kearney is set to fly across the country with his childhood friend (and current friend-with-benefits) Josh, to attend his brother's wedding—until Josh tells Neil that he's in love with him and Neil doesn't return the sentiment.

With Josh still attending the wedding, Neil needs to find a new date to bring along. And, almost against his will, roommate Wyatt is drafted.

At first, Wyatt (correctly) thinks Neil is acting like a jerk. But when they get to LA, Wyatt sees a little more of where it's coming from. Slowly, Neil and Wyatt begin to understand one another� and maybe, just maybe, fall in love for the first time…]]> 343 Mason Deaver 1338777661 Alice 3 3.77 2022
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]]> 209789407 168 Lucie Bryon Alice 5 4.50 2024
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]]> 58706120
The novel of Lauren James' hugely popular online story "An Unauthorised Fan Treatise"

When Delilah meets Sawyer Saffitz (son of Anya Saffitz, aka Hollywood royalty), she becomes hooked on a decade-old scandal. In her quest for the truth, Delilah uncovers blogposts written by the mysterious “gottiewrites� and is soon caught up in a world of greed, fandom conspiracy theories � and murder. And the deeper Delilah digs, the more dangerous it becomes � because someone is willing to kill to hide the truth.]]> 314 Lauren James 1406397393 Alice 5 3.70 2024
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.70
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]]> 50496875
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed� Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations.]]> 640 Emily M. Danforth 0062942859 Alice 5 3.64 2020
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name: Alice
average rating: 3.64
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