frenchliterature

Swann's Way (Estadounidense and Revised) | Marcel Proust

In February and March, I‘m reading Swann‘s Way with a few bookish friends. I love hearing everyone‘s comments each week. We are reading the Lydia Davis translation and just made it to the halfway point. Proust‘s meandering thoughts are beautiful, but exhausting at times. I love having a chance to savor his words and reflect on them each week instead of rushing through it.

BarbaraBB I took my time too to read these books. It‘s the only way I think. Good luck! (edited) 1h

AvidReader25 @BarbaraBB That‘s good to hear! 43m

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RowReads1

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile | Fran�oise Sagan

In graphic novel form. https://nbmpub.com/products/bonjour-tristesse

RowReads1 🤔Publication indefinitely postponed. Hey now! It‘s still coming up for sale in August on selling sites. 17h

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RowReads1

Les Enfants Terrible | Jean Cocteau

I‘m pretty sure I read this years ago. It is good to have a copy.

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merelybookish

Break of Day | Colette, Enid McLeod

The joy of the second-hand book. 😆 Up till now it's been a few little X's in the margin.

TheBookHippie Oh dear… 1w

dabbe Whoah. 😳 If it were highlighted in yellow it would look like my accounting book in college. 🤣 1w

Susanita Someone was bored in class? 1w

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OrangeMooseReads Were they breaking down the sentences? No need to circle like madperson! lol 1w

sarahbarnes 😆😆😆 1w

AlaMich wtf??😳 1w

Cathythoughts Brilliant 😂 1w

Reggie Lolol 1w

Ddzmini Why would anyone 👀 I understand annotation in books but this 🤦🏼‍♀️ 7d

merelybookish @TheBookHippie @dabbe @Susanita @OrangeMooseReads @sarahbarnes @AlaMich @Cathythoughts @Reggie @Ddzmini It's a mystery! Fortunately just that one page although there's some strange numbering on another page. 🤷 6d

TheBookHippie @merelybookish 😂😂😂😂😂😂 6d

charl08 Yikes. 6d

OrangeMooseReads Ahh it‘s a code then lol 6d

merelybookish @OrangeMooseReads Perhaps. 🤔 The numbers in the margins are 8s and 9s. It is truly bizarre! 5d

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CrowCAH

Madam Bovary | Gustave Flaubert

Started this #audiobook today for #SHPL Victorian Book Club.

Super happy #SimonVance is narrating! It makes me feel like I‘m supporting him even as he‘s trying to rebuild after the California fires took his house.

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charl08

A Woman's Story | Annie Ernaux

Tomorrow, it will be three weeks since the funeral. It was only the day before yesterday that I overcame the fear of writing 'My mother died' on a blank sheet of paper...

Suet624 Oh, Annie… 1w

BarbaraBB Wow what a quote. Stacking. 1w

charl08 @Suet624 @BarbaraBB I want to read everything. All her work. 1w

BarbaraBB I loved

The Young Man

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sisilia

Nana | Emile Zola

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LeahBergen Nice! 👍 2w

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Daisey

Therese Raquin (Revised) | Emile Zola

pick

This is a dark story, and although I appreciated it, it did not have the same impact on me as the other Zola novels I‘ve read. In this story of lust and guilt, there were strong feelings of dread, but I didn‘t really have any sympathy for the characters due to their choices.

#1001books #audiobook

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LisaBam

Submission | Michel Houellebecq

so-so

I chose this book because I wanted to read something controversial and provocative. Unfortunately, Submission did not live up to my expectations. The book mostly (re-) tells the life story and struggles of two characters: the narrator, a fictional French university professor, and the actual author Huysmans. Overall, a too overly academic story for my taste.

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sisilia

Nana | Emile Zola

I finished Part 1 of My Struggle Book 1 and needed a break. KOK is as intense as the way he looks! 😏 So I‘m back to 19th century France with Zola. I don‘t think this is a stroll-in-the-park kind of read, either 😅

AlaMich I just read Thérèse Raquin, my first Zola. There are images from that book that will stay with me forever, I think.

Th�r�se Raquin

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sisilia @AlaMich Ooohh lovely! Yes, that‘s what Zola does to the readers. For L‘Assomoir, La Bete Humaine, and Germinal, I needed about a week to decompress 🤭 My brain was doing “OMG OMG 😱😨😵‍💫” with hands flapping all the way 3w

AlaMich @sisilia ☺️ 3w

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Daisey @sisilia I still haven‘t made it to Nana, but @AlaMich Therese Raquin is on my list for this month. I‘m looking forward to Zola‘s writing while also dreading what he‘s going to put me through. 3w

AlaMich @Daisey I also listened to the Juliet Stevenson version of the audio and thought she was excellent. If audio is a thing that you do. 😊 3w

AlaMich @Daisey And Therese Raquin is quite a ride! 3w

sisilia @AlaMich I will check it out. Thank you! I like the reading & listening combo; the best way to read 🤗 3w

Daisey @AlaMich The Juliet Stevenson audio is already downloaded and just waiting for me to get to it! 3w

AlaMich @Daisey Great! I think she‘s a terrific narrator in general. Enjoy!! 3w

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