Here's a book that doesn't have an over-complicated plot full of twists you can't believe in. Rather, the world-building is smart and to the point, it has just enough explanations and backstory, and you're never bored.
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I read a lot of SFF, obscure LGBT, travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.
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ju a noté The Devil and Sherlock Holmes : 4 étoiles

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes de David Grann
Collection of the journalist's articles previously published in varous periodicals.
ju a noté Toutes les femmes sauf une : 4 étoiles
ju a noté Some Desperate Glory : 5 étoiles

Some Desperate Glory de Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the …
ju a publié une critique de The Mimicking of Known Successes par Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
ju a publié une critique de Red Seas Under Red Skies par Scott Lynch
ju a publié une critique de La chair est triste hélas par Ovidie
A striking essay
4 étoiles
At times funny, enraging and hard-hitting, this essay where Ovidie explains her sex strike should make everyone -- and especially straight cis-men -- think about their practice of love, sex and relationships.
ju a publié une critique de Sur la dalle par Fred Vargas
Nice but a bit disappointing
3 étoiles
Here's the thing with amazing authors : they get you used to amazing books. Unfortunately, this one isn't that, although it is always nice to read an Adamsberg novel. It's just that it's a bit long and boring at times, the charm of the previous novels isn't really there.
ju a noté A Country of Ghosts : 4 étoiles

A Country of Ghosts de Margaret Killjoy (Black Dawn, #2)
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
ju a publié une critique de Flames par Robbie Arnott
ju a noté The Lost City of Z : 4 étoiles

The Lost City of Z de David Grann
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration …
ju a publié une critique de Le Colonel ne dort pas par Emilienne Malfatto
ju a noté Le Colonel ne dort pas : 5 étoiles

Le Colonel ne dort pas de Emilienne Malfatto
Dans une grande ville d'un pays en guerre, un spécialiste de l'interrogatoire accomplit chaque jour son implacable office. La nuit, …
ju a noté Station Eleven : 5 étoiles

Station Eleven de Emily St. John Mandel
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …
ju a publié une critique de L'île de Yule par Johana Gustawsson
If you're fan of the genre
I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...






