Welcome to Litsy!

I like her sarcastic style and exquisite approach on common philosophical themes with unusual and peculiar characters and circumstances.

Zoile and Astrolabe experience a love story so unique and disappointing that Zoile decides to comit suicide by highjacking an airplane to destroy the Eiffel Tour.

"To love a place, you have to see it from above. This must be why we imagine God above the Earth: otherwise how would he be able to love us?"

A less than average Nothomb. There are a few sparkling sentences here and there but the whole narrative is flat, non imaginative and nothing we haven't seen, read or heard. Woe is my white male condition, I'll take all with me because I got rejected. Maybe there is a second degree to this but I don't feel it. Good thing it was short. #julyinfrench

Fall French Book Haul. Yesterday was fall preview day for bookstore and librarians by one of the big distributors in Québec. That's my haul of new releases, advanced copies and swag. New Nothomb, new translated Atwood, new translated Whitehead are among the highlights. #frenchbookhaul #bookhaul