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Serotonin | Michel Houellebecq

I drove a diesel 4kc — I mightn‘t have done much good in my life, but at least I contributed to the destruction of the planet — and I systematically sabotaged the selective recycling system put in place by the residents‘ association by chucking empty wine bottles in the bin meant for paper and packaging, and perishable rubbish in the glass collection bin.

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Letters of a Peruvian Woman | Franoise de Graffigny
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I 1st heard of this book when researching #Peru for #FoodAndLit but it wouldn't do b/c it's all about France. It is an 18th-c. epistolary novel written by a French woman. The narrator is an Inca “virgin of the sun“ snatched by Spanish conquistadores, then taken by French soldiers to France. Her letters to her Inca fiancé describe France & its mores from the point of view of an outsider - a “Noble Savage“ - uncorrupted by European civilisation.

Dilara A best-seller in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was then forgotten, like many works by female authors, and rediscovered recently. As it is in the list of books studied for the French 2026 baccalaureate, there are plenty of editions with added commentary and material to choose from! Mine is quite well made for readers who need a lot of hand-holding: each occurrence of a potentially difficult or semi-difficult word is explained. 3d
Dilara Pic of an aclla, or virgin of the sun, in the public domain from https://short-history.com/the-acllas-inca-women-of-the-sun-2184999efe45 3d
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Mauprat: A Novel | George Sand
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A lovely cover from library sale book.

TheBookHippie Love. 4w
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Mauprat: A Novel | George Sand
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Library Book Sale Haul

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Teresereading
Sundays in August | Patrick Modiano
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Eventually our eyes met.
Back in Nice!

#firstlinefridays
 @ShyBookOwl

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Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories | Honor de Balzac, Peter Collier, Patrick Coleman
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I have been reading Les Misérables since January. Taking it at a slow pace and enjoying its Reading Companion Podcast by Briana Lewis. Highly recommend to listen to it for a more in depth read. It does help with the infamous digressions ?. #lesmiserables#podcast#victorhugo#bigread#classics#frenchlit#read&listen

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French Women Writers | Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman
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I had to add this to my collection. Many books on French writers don‘t include very many women writers. They usually have Marie de France, Madame de La fayette , sometimes Simone de Beauvoir and George Sand and that‘s it.

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“It‘s most direct successor in modern French literature may be Baudelaire‘s post-romantic” Fleurs du mal”. It was only a few years after “The Regrets” that the wars of religion between varying factions of Protestants and Catholics (1562-98) profoundly changed French culture and set the stage for the more highly structured and often less personal literature of the 17th century”.

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BARZAKH | Moussa Ould Ebnou
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Reading Barzakh, a fantasy/SF novel by Mauritanian author Moussa Ould Ebnou. Doing a bit of research on Aoudaghost/Awdaghost, a city lost to the desert in the Middle-Ages, and on the Sahel region is helping a lot w/ timeline & geography.
Pic by Luca Abbate from https://wildmanlife.com/aoudaghost-economic-hub-of-the-sahara/ This page contains pics & detailed info & matches quite closely the descriptions in the book. Useful.
#Mauritania

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