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ju@lire.boitam.eu

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Photojournalist and many other things in -ist.

I read a lot of SFF, obscure LGBT, travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.

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a publié une critique de The Mimicking of Known Successes par Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Older: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …

A smart and easy read

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.

a publié une critique de La chair est triste hélas par Ovidie

Ovidie: La chair est triste hélas (Paperback, french language, Julliard)

J’ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m’étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas …

A striking essay

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.

a publié une critique de Sur la dalle par Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas: Sur la dalle (French language, 2023)

— Le dolmen dont tu m’as parlé, Johan, il est bien sur la route du …

Nice but a bit disappointing

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.

a publié une critique de L'île de Yule par Johana Gustawsson

Johana Gustawsson: L'île de Yule (Paperback, Français language, Calmann-Levy) Aucune note

Le coeur battant, Emma Lindahl cogne à la porte du manoir dressé sur une petite …

If you're fan of the genre

Aucune note

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...