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#weeklyfavorites #December

This library book will be finished before the New Year. So #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew or #OutWithTheOld

Had to pick up holds at the library, so of course I raided the “new” section. #libraryholds #libraryfinds. I am excited- did not know there was a new Bruno, Chief of Police, novel published in 2024.

Literally, “The people of Auberoque“, Auberoque being an imaginary village in #Dordogne in 1866, possibly a disguised Montignac-Lascaux (pic of its castle from wikimedia). A lot of politicking, meanness & stupidity. And two perfect MCs 😂

Another book set in #Dordogne (and Charente) : a graphic work about a still owner who travels from farm to farm to turn his customers' fruit into brandy. There weren't many of them left in 1999-2000 which is when the book is set, but there are even fewer now, both because life has changed and because hardly anybody is allowed a tax exemption on their first liters of alcohol, as it cannot be passed down the generations anymore.

Oh look, a book where “it“/“this“ is used for a woman, described as if she was livestock for sale. I'll read on to see if that is due to the character's voice, or the writer's, but I am not impressed.

#Dordogne

Another book for my #Dordogne challenge: 12th-century troubadour Giraut de Bornehl's cantos, in the original medieval #Occitan, with a word-by-word translation into modern French and comments. Giraut/Guiraut/Guirault de Bornelh/Borneil is mentioned by Dante as one of the best troubadours. Interesting and intellectually stimulating, but slow-going.