Crone Cold Kate SherrodMar 1, 2023
My final read for #FebruaryFromTheFrench was a young adult fantasy set in Victorian London. Imagine the Mothman as a little orphan girl who is also a missing heiress! PHALAINA by Alice Briére Haquet, translated by the marvelous Emma Ramadan.
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/alice-briere-haquets-phailana-tr-emma.html?m=1
Alice Brière-Haquet's PHAILANA (Tr Emma Ramadan)

What if the Mothman (of prophecy fame) were a little girl named Manon, lost in Jack the Ripper's London? Being relentlessly pursued by a wo...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodMar 1, 2023

My penultimate read for #FebruaryFromTheFrench is a classic by the great and mighty Colette, given audio perfection by Gabrielle de Cuir! It's Chéri & The End of Chéri!

http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/colettes-cheri-end-of-cheri-tr-rachel.html?m=1

Colette's CHÉRI & THE END OF CHÉRI (Tr Rachel Careau, Narr Gabrielle de Cuir)

A sort of anti-love love story in two phases, Colette's Chéri and the End of Chéri  takes very seriously an affair of the heart that was nev...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 24, 2023
It's fucking cold but my Sadie Pup and Colette are keeping me warm. In my mind it is June in Paris. #AmReading #FebruaryFromTheFrench #Booktodon
Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 22, 2023

In which I ponder if there is a French equivalent to "fnord" - Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' ISLAND OF POINT NEMO (Tr by Hannah Chute)

http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/jean-marie-blas-de-robles-island-of.html?m=1

#FebruaryFromTheFrench #Booktodon

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' ISLAND OF POINT NEMO (Tr Hannah Chute)

Was Hagbard Celine your bad literary boyfriend long before Hubertus Bigend burst on the spec fic scene? Is "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" your ...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 15, 2023
Not going to blog about it because there's been plenty written about it already, for centuries, but very much enjoying, at last, CANDIDE, for #FebruaryFromTheFrench I've got the free audio edition narrated by Jack Davenport, whom I still think of as Steve from Coupling, so imagining that hapless doofus as this other hapless doofus is an added comic dimension for the satire, or something. #Booktotodon
Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 12, 2023
I haven't bailed on here or any of my ongoing things like #FebruaryFromTheFrench but IRL stuff keeps happening and eating up way too much time. If it was remotely fun or social that would be fine but... sigh.
Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 7, 2023

#FebruaryFromTheFrench Takes me today to Algeria, and Yasmina Khadra. More Inspector Llob! http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/yasmina-khadras-double-blank-tr-by.html?m=1

#booktodon #CrimeFiction #Algeria

Yasmina Khadra's DOUBLE BLANK (tr by Aubrey Botsford)

February from the French now takes me back to Algeria, back to crime fiction, back to Yasmina Khadra and his incredible detective-cum-noveli...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 6, 2023

My sophomore foray into #FebruaryFromTheFrench brought me back into the aging punk-infested Paris and Nancy of the great Virginie Despentes. Bye Bye Blondie kicked my ass in the best way.
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/virginie-despentes-bye-bye-blondie-tr.html?m=1

#Booktotodon

Virginie Despentes' BYE BYE BLONDIE (Tr Siân Reynolds)

"Every time I find a guy I really like, I drive him nuts and he chucks me out... You know the effect I have on guys: at first they love it t...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 4, 2023

My first read in #FebruaryFromTheFrench is, as it were, on the books. Behold Marie Ndiaye's brilliant entry in the "my narrator is less reliable than yours sweepstakes," THE CHEFFE

http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/marie-ndiayes-cheffe-cooks-novel-tr.html?m=1

Marie Ndiaye's THE CHEFFE: A COOK'S NOVEL (Tr Jordan Stump, Narr Edoardo Ballerini)

Cuisine is an art form that still resists duplication. A painting can be made into prints, as can a film; a book can be re-printed in a vari...

Crone Cold Kate SherrodFeb 2, 2023
Spinal pain is off the charts today so spent the afternoon on a heating pad listening to the audio book of Marie Ndiaye's intensely astonishing The Cheffe. At one point I thought finding a month's worth of #FebruaryFromTheFrench that I was really excited for would be tough. Tee and also hee! #Booktotodon