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Lie With Me
Lie With Me | Philippe BESSON
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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June #readingroundup

Lie with me was my favorite read of the month, but I did also enjoy Ministry of Time, The Darkness Outside Us, and Margo's Got Money Trouble!

It was an okay reading month.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Gorgeously heartbreaking.

This is my second Besson book and now my favorite of his. The story of two boys who carry on a secret affair in highschool and then go on to live their lives separately, one going on to pass as a straight man the other openly gay.

I love how the novel is laid out and the language is beautiful. Big impact in a slim volume.

ChaoticMissAdventures If you enjoyed this or vice versa this reminded me of 5mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I cannot decide if this book is trying to tell me to go back and finish 1984 like I should be, or letting me know it is a natural progression and I just live in 1984 today.

Cuilin lol. I loved Lie with Me 🩷 5mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin I loved it too! Besson is such a beautiful writer. 5mo
Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures yes!! Have you read anything else by him? I haven‘t but want to. 5mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin I also read this one but I like Lie With Me a bit better. Both of them have the same dreamy simplicity, I am excited to read more of his. 5mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I forgot to tag it! 🤣 5mo
Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures I just looked up Goodreads and realized I read in the Absence of Men in April. 🤦‍♀️ It was so beautiful too. (edited) 5mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin and impactful? 🤣 I think these 2 are the only ones translated into English. I guess I will have to learn to read French! 5mo
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Cuilin
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Tagged book second favorite of the year!!!

Thanks to #GoldenAgeCrimeClub @Mitch for The Franchise Affair and #NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks for 🦋 book.

ChaoticMissAdventures I have Like With Me at the very top of my list for next year! So glad to see you enjoyed it. Swimming In The Dark was one of my favorites this year. And I read Besson's In The Absence of Men too, such great atmosphere in all of them. 10mo
Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures I loved it and will reread it. I should read more by Besson. 10mo
Mitch So glad it was a hit with you 🙌🏼 10mo
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Cuilin
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Drinking coffee this morning and I‘m in tears again. I stayed up to finish this beautiful written book, got to the last page and sobbed into my pillow trying not to wake my husband. Set in rural France in 1984, two teenage boys begin a secret relationship that can have no future. The writing sparse yet impactful.

TheLudicReader Translated by Molly Ringwald! 1y
Cuilin @TheLudicReader it‘s a great translation. Seriously beautiful. 1y
Cathythoughts Stacking ❤️ 1y
Cuilin @Cathythoughts You will need tissues 😢 1y
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Bookbuyingaddict
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Great little novella about first love written from memories and a chance meeting , saw a book vlogger on YouTube recommending it and picked up in the library on a whim , sometimes that‘s the best way of finding a little gem isn‘t it . Beautiful and highly recommended. Another book bingo read. Could be a full line for January 🙌#bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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bianka
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‘ i cannot stand the idea that he could be taken from me. that i could lose him. i discover for the first time- poor idiot- this stabbing pain of love.‘ 4.5/5 ; loved the poetic writing style of the author.

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Dilara
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Well, I finished this short autofiction about the author's first doomed love with another boy yesterday - I more or less read it in one sitting - and I got teary-eyed at the end, without feeling emotionally manipulated. Loved it.

(picture of Barbezieux (where the protagonists live), in the Cognac region of France, from Wikipedia)

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Dilara
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I saw the trailer for the film inspired by this novel the other day and thought I'd check out the book. I'd been meaning to read Besson for ages, and books are generally better anyway😄
Apparently, the actress Molly Ringwald translated it into English? It's about a gay writer who comes back to his native village, where he meets his first love's son.

(picture is a still from the film)

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Centique
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Thank you for this book @Reggie it was a lovely change of pace from a book about war. In this novella we see the beginnings of a love affair between two young men in France in 1984. They need to keep their meetings secret and we see how the weight of carrying this secret will impact them. A really moving story that reminded me of Duras.
(Photo of a spring posy given to my daughter)

Centique @Reggie did you see the dedication was to Thomas Andrieu (1966 - 2016). That broke my heart 💔 2y
Reggie I‘m glad you liked it. It‘s been a while since I read it, I don‘t remember. There is an elder gay at work who just lost his husband that he had been with for 30 years. I would think of this book sometimes thinking they were so lucky to have had so long with each other. When some gays can‘t even accept themselves. 2y
batsy Gorgeous flowers! 2y
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Centique @Reggie that‘s so sad and so hard. Yes in this book they only have a few months together when they‘re 18 and then one‘s inability to cope with the secrecy & shame makes him run away from the other. 😔 My BIL‘s brother has been with his husb for about 30 years too. A rare couple against all the odds 💕 2y
CarolynM Beautiful flowers and the book sounds good too. I already have it stacked, probably from your review @Reggie 🙂 2y
Megabooks What a beautiful photo!! 2y
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Ast_Arslan
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What a beautiful book.
Sometimes I felt the writing like a stream of consciousness, but in this case it perfectly suits the novel.
It's a powerful story even if it's sad... I didn't imagine the end so I'm still a bit shocked.
I think I will read more by Philippe Besson.
This is part of his life, now I'm curios about his fiction

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thevagabondlawyer
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My last read in 2020 turned out to be one of the very best I read in years. Unbelievable! LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson (translated by Molly Ringwald) is a touching, tragic love story that speaks so powerfully of longing, repression, identity, secrecy, lust, desire, and love in its barest, purest, precious form. This book can be read in one sitting because it's less than 200 pages but the emotional voyage is simply astounding. 👇

thevagabondlawyer It is wistful and devastating, and haunting but with a great deal of heart. Oftentimes, we are so afraid to confront who we are lest we be judged and condemned that we lost so much along the way, not living the life we ought to live, jettisoning the people we ought to be with in our lifetime. This is one of the themes evoked in this book that resonates so much on a personal level and reading this is a gift, an exceptionally beautiful gift! 👏
4y
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JennyM
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A love story about 2 teenage boys who meet and fall in love in the 80s. And it just about undid me 😭 Really lovely translation #ReadingEurope2020 #France

Ruthiella Translated by Molly Ringwald! She‘s multi-talented!😀 4y
JennyM @Ruthiella I know! And it was a really good translation, too 4y
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Librarybelle Wow for the Molly Ringwald connection! 4y
BarbaraBB Great choice. I read another book by him and remember being impressed as well. 4y
JennyM @BarbaraBB @librarybelle it‘s a novella so you could get through it in a few hours. But it packs an emotional punch. I recommend tea and tissues 😘 4y
erzascarletbookgasm Molly Ringwald translated? Wow! 4y
JennyM @erzascarletbookgasm And she‘s done a marvellous job (edited) 4y
BarbaraBB I hope you will be joining us for #ReadingAsia2021! 4y
JennyM @BarbaraBB I will thankyou. I wanted to do one translated book a month for #readingeurope but I‘ve not quite made it. However...I‘ve read some books that I would never have done had it not been for the challenge, so it‘s still a win for me 🥳 And some have been amazing reads. Thanks for the tag and for hosting 😘 4y
BarbaraBB Good to have you. It‘s been great seeing your choices and be inspired by them! 4y
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Reggie
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I feel like I have become a little cynical as I felt impatient with this seemingly self indulgent writing about two boys in 80‘s France who share a secret love affair that sets them on 2 very different paths. But like all good stories this one sends a storm into the desert of my heart and quenches the dry cracked earth. (Who‘s self indulgent now?!!! Lol) I very much liked this book. A very Marguerite Duras‘s The Lover meets The Reader, pick!

Sharp_Cornaz Molly Ringwald the actress translated this. 4y
JennyM Hoping to get to this one soon. Fab review, Reggie 😊 4y
Reggie @Sharp_Cornaz “Andy why won‘t you just let me drop you off at your house?!!!” “Cause I‘m poor!!!” Lol yeah she did a great job. 4y
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Reggie @JennyM 😊 Thanks! I hope you enjoy it. It‘s only 150pgs. 4y
batsy The Lover meets the Reader plus Molly Ringwald the translator??? Yeah that jumped into my tbr 😁 4y
erzascarletbookgasm Great review! I‘ve only read The Reader. 4y
Reggie @batsy Lol yayyyy! I know you‘ll like it. 4y
Reggie @erzascarletbookgasm Thanks! I think you‘d love The Lover. The writing is superb. There is a passage I love that I talked about on here and it was cool because @batsy knew exactly which one I was talking about and she finished what the passage was about. 4y
batsy @Reggie Yup 🥰 I adore Duras' writing, @erzascarletbookgasm 🙂 4y
sprainedbrain Definitely adding this to my list. Great review! 4y
CarolynM Great review. Stacked (and I'm stacking The Lover too) 4y
Reggie @sprainedbrain you‘ll love it! 4y
Reggie @CarolynM Thanks, I think you‘ll like both of them. Both are short and well written. 4y
ReadingEnvy It's a good readalike for Stay with Me but I liked that book more. 4y
Reggie @ReadingEnvy the Adebayo? Cause when I look up the title there‘s quite a lot of books with the same name, lol. 4y
ReadingEnvy @Reggie I'm dumb and said the wrong book, meant 4y
Reggie @ReadingEnvy After a couple thousand books, I‘m sure it happens. 4y
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MMFinck
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Hooked by second page.

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ephemeralwaltz
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Flawless! A successful writer reviews his teenage years after catching a glimpse of someone he thinks he recognizes during an interview, Thomas. Gorgeous and heartbreaking, the narrator explores what is scary and what is reassuring about physical relationships when you're a teenager, what they can turn into, and how he and Thomas embarked on a journey they never really came back from.

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Chelsea.Poole
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More of a novella than a novel; it was extremely short. However, all of the emotion and feeling was present within the short story. I won't soon forget this one. Tragic. #audiobook

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Chelsea.Poole
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Switching gears to this short #audiobook translated from the French.

tournevis Molly Ringwald *translated* this! I knew she spoke French well, because Canada, but I'm astounded she knows it that well. Wow. 5y
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gretgretch
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“...[accepts an] absence that is not death...” A strange state of limbo to be in but applies to all kinds of relationships. #bookstagram #relationships #amreading

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Olivia306
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Only apparently simple, this book is absolutely stunning in its contained prose, its evocative nature, its unabashed rawness. Mr. Besson manages to tell a coming of age story with tenderness - a story that ultimately manages to become so much more with its devastating conclusion. It will continue to haunt me for a while.

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kindergartenkat
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Things that make you go hmmmm? Goodreads decided to recommend Pet Sematary because I enjoyed Lie With Me? Often their recs are fairly good - but what on Earth would link Lie With Me (a coming of age/reflection story about being gay in the late 80s in France) and Pet Semetary?

Chrissyreadit Maybe becoming dead and coming out to your mother in the 80‘s in Castle Rock? Also, without fail, I always hear the song lyric “I don‘t want to be buried in a pet cemetery “ every time I see the title. (By the Ramones 🖤)🤣😆😂 (edited) 5y
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LTOC
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Fucking spectacular.

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Lauren.Archer
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Simply stunning. This feels like a memoir than a novel.

Theaelizabet And translated by actress Molly Ringwald. Who knew? 6y
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