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This library book will be finished before the New Year. So #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew or #OutWithTheOld
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.
pickHorribly behind with my reviews, so here I go. I read this in my holidays. It was a nice and fast read, though not my favourite in this series. The storyline seemed a bit easy.
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.
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.
A novel by Georges de Peyrebrune, a half-forgotten 19th-century female author with a male pseudonym. Free on wikisource. I read it because of its pro-working-class, proto-feminist leanings and because it is set in #Dordogne, which is the French département I'll be exploring in books this year. It is a page-turner and I really felt for the main character, a strong but dim girl raised in an orphanage without love or the skills to face the world.
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