Not the tagged book, Elliot du Néant, but it was not in litsy database.
A sort of Alice in Wonderland based in Islande on Mallarmé's poetry...
My first book to finish now that the holidays started

Christelle Dabos was having a long chat at my library today, she is very nice and her genuine replies to the animator and the public made me want to read Nous, her new book and Et l imagination s enflamme her book about writing.

For a change of genre, I heard scott-heron music before but did not know he had written a book. I expect that murder mystery to be written with style.

Yes :) as an incentive to buying directly for her, the newest Gail Carriger book arrived a week in advance in my emails :) now off to read about otter-shifters (a warning that is the most explicit and adult series of hers)

I have two big reading questions lately :
1/ if you read while listening to music, where do you find music that goes with your book or at least does not clash ?
2// I want to find/organise a smallish reading retreat over my birthday : not traveling far, comfy place, maybe a good library, food catered for me .. Any tip on how to organize something like that ?

Mostly spend yesterday reading and napping while the flu and covid vaccines took effect. Today should be more of the same plus a walk to the library.

Recommended by at least 2 friends. I am already overreacting to all the sexism at work (who has work in engineering and still been "mistaken" for the secretary will see why). I need to brace myself for the rest ;)

Weekend at my dad's, nothing much to do except be with other humans and read

1st of november I am reading outside wearing a spaghetti top... Life is nice :)

Tea, book and watercolors... I don't need much ;)

So, again, the french edition is two books for the 4th in the series... But the cover is gorgeous :)

Very grey day here, so i ll be in my reading nook with an epic book

A book about a library, with a black cat on the cover, of course I had to get it, and I am enjoying the different character per chapter all connected by the same librarian.

Finally got it from the library, it has been in high demand :) really enjoying reading about the gang again.

It s been in my list forever, and i have not been reading enough scifi lately so here goes

Now for something différent, a book gifted by a friends. This is their favourite author and i never read anything by that author... Let's see.

When all the characters are book lovers, you can only relate :)

Finish the series, à bit slow at times: i wanted to push characters around

Another Lady Agatha short story collection, but this one seems a little different, probably because there is not a lot of murders and mystery solving, more some strange situations.

Getting back to lupin for a bit

I like the premise of a weird family accident prone just for a month per year, and the characters are likeable but the explanations are too déjà vus for me

Book 3 of the mallaussene saga (of 8), rereading to have everything in mind for the latest 2.
Also a nice change of pace after a dry non fiction book

Let s the 10 days of reading by the river begin :)

Not as much reading done as usual... Too much Olympics to watch ;)
Anyway, a short stories anthology before the vacations.

A friend lend us that book because we came back from Ireland and were talking about Connemara.
I am all for that, except... the book is nowhere near talking about Ireland.
The "connemara" of the title is a very Cheesy song from the 80s that is now stuck in my head... and the story is about people who grew up at the same time as i did, with jobs similar to what i do... not good for escapism !

Picture from my actual visit to connemara ;)

Yes it s july 6th and I am under a blanket, but it is raining and I am peopled-out but need to get out again for dinner with friends so ... A little quiet time (and the piano player in the back is using headphones)

Today s lunch : a run to the post office, slight hypoglycemia so i stopped on my way back for food, luckily i always carry my book for company

One last tea and scone at the airport

After 15 days in Ireland, i 'd call that a small book haul... Mostly restricted because we fly Ryanair...

Would you believe the day started with rain and fog ?
Enjoying the fair weather now and the kettle in every hotel room in Ireland

Found this in a cute café/library on the way today, very funny texts and illustrations.
Through the window there is a very foggy sea view.

Tea and cake and book in dingle after driving a fair bit. Beautiful roads in Ireland not a lot of reading ;)

this one had been in my TBR for ages, even taken out of the list, thinking I would get to it another time. But we watched the Netflix series recently and now I want to know if book Ripley is more like the Damon movie, the NFseries or the American Friend movie...anyway hoping to read most of it on a 2h flight.

When you die, what you lose first, it‘s life. Next it‘s illusions.

Finished the tagged book during a tea break this morning, now another book for my sunny lunch break :)

Preping for a trip to Ireland with that beautiful book.
Does it surprise anyone that not all the hotels are booked but my "for that trip to read Irish books" list is ready ?

Reading Hermione Granger fanfic in the hammock, not a bad way to end the day

It's cold and rainy outside, perfect excuse to start another book

Getting out that book I have since 1999... I can speak german, but I know my grammar is weak, and practising with Duolingo is not enough, I really need to learn the gender and cases, to speak correctly!

Discovered another of the librairies in my town yesterday, went for an exhibition and came back with 2 books. I can not remember who told me about this author but she is french and writing thrillers, so i had to try for myself. So good so far

New ereader cover for me

Second tea and first breakfast, lazy sunday morning to finish the vacation. #bookandtea

That one was written by a friend of my dad... not sure yet about the story or the style but it is taking place in a city I like, by the sea :)

Book break from a touristy day in porto. We are more interested in our books than the port wine.

OK, so it is counted as an Arsène Lupin book but he only appears for half a page in a discussion... As for the rest of the book, it's more a war/revenge/mystery story than what I was expecting, and a lot of WWI stuff so Germans are all bad and French all good... Too propagand-ish for me.

OK so the library card is renewed... But I ended up with 2 new books on my TBR...

Looking for a quiet and sunny place to read before the library opens and i can't return one of my doorstopper read of the week

Checked into an hôtel yesterday, nice breakfast and now i sort of do not want to move from the nice lourging chair.

I was struggling with Count Robert of Paris (100p in and still no signe of Robert) and a book discussed with a friend became available at the library... I was expecting 170p of non fiction... Not 661p !

Sunday post run breakfast. I am normally not a Poirot fan but this one is nice so far.