Bookholic

Dear readers,

How are you? It has been, indeed, quite a long time, or at least a few weeks, that I didn't write. Let's say that I needed some inspiration. I don't like to write for writing, I really like and prefer writing when I'm inspired, when I know what to write, what to say to you. So, as I might have guess already, in the begin of this new month, I'm inspired. :)

Today, in this saturday, under the rain, or maybe almost on this sunday, I'm going to talk about something that I already talk about in this blog a few month ago. Something that transport me, something that makes me laugh, cry, or make me angry, something that makes me dream, imagine how the character could be, how they are, how they live, something that give me idea when I'm writing, something that ,with my dearest family, has always been there for me. And which also, if I'm really in the story, will make you impossible to talk to me! :)
This something, is of course, books. And the title gives you also a clue!
In this past few weeks, I read a lot of them, with great pleasure and I'd like to share it with you. Maybe after that, you'll want to read them too! :)

First, after a summer during the one I read too and me suis replongée avec délice dans quelques Katie Fforde ou autre auteurs comme James Patterson et son fameux héros, Alex Cross, j'ai découvert another book which was advise me by my dear dad:

- The Dog-Walker by Leslie Schnur. Story refreshing and quite unsepexted, I'd say. The plot?
Nina Shepard is a dog walker in New York. People ask her to walk their dog every day. And she has sometimes the key of their appartement and therefore have access to their lives. Sometimes, by curiosity, she snoops in and look at their lives.
Enter Daniel. Nina walks his dog. And she thinks, by snooping in his appartement, that she knows him.
But it is Daniel who holds the key to Nina's heart. One moonlit night on a pier overlooking the Hudson River they are pulled them into the treacherous waters of love. What she doesn't know is that Daniel is an imposter, pretending to be what he is not. And by the time she learns who he really is, after mishaps and mistaken identities, deception and lost dogs, it's too late. She's fallen for someone she never would have expected.

Je me suis ensuite plongée dans un livre d'un auteur que j'aime bien. Il s'agit de:

- Ken Follett: Un Monde sans fin (une suite, je dirais dans la lignée des Pilliers de la terre ( que je vous recommande également). Une saga porté par différent personnages au destin incroyable. Des personnages qui croit en la liberté, en un monde meilleur, qui croient en leurs rêves malgré un chemin tortueux et rempli d'embûches. Voici l'histoire: Kingsbridge, ville prospère, vivant à l'ombre de sa cathédrale et de son prieuré. 1327. En ce mois de Novembre et jour de la Toussaint, quatre enfants vont assister à un évènement, qui bouleversera leur vie. Ils jureront alors de ne rien dire sur ce qui s'est passé ce jour là. on les retrouve dix ans plus tard, chacun ayant emprunté un chemin différent. On peut les suivre à travers les années, voir ce qu'ils sont devenus. Des séries d'intrigues sont présentes tout au long du livre. Même si parfois on aimerait que ça avance un peu plus vite, ce livre est rempli de rebondissement et vous ne pourrez plus le lâcher. Des héros rempli d'ambitions (bonne ou mauvaise) et qui croient, malgré tout en leur rêve. Je vous laisse le découvrir à votre tour, en espèrant que vous l'apprécierez tout autant que moi. :)

Then I begin to read in english again, with great pleasure and delight.
Ok, that would maybe be a cliché, but I don't care, the book is good and liked it.

First, the title: A week-end with Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly. (Yes, I know!^^) The pitch?

Katherine Roberts, lecturer specialising in the work of Jane Austen, and give lecture in Oxford (yes!), is fed up. She has come to realise that the ideal man only exists within the pages of Pride&Prejudice.
Austen fanatic, Robyn Love, is blessed with a name full, of romance, but her love life, is far to be perfect. She is stuck in a rut with a bonehead boyfriend and she longs for an escape.

They both head to the annual Jane Austen conference, hoping to cast their troubles away. But, as you might have guessed, as chaos ensues, it seems an Austen week-end wouldn't be complete without a little intrigue and romance along the way...!
" Hold on to your bonnets!"

A refreshing book and also fun, attachant personnage. On se replonge avec delight dans l'univers improbable de Jane Austen. On a envie de savoir comment ça va se terminer. Ce livre is for all the Jane Austen's fan and for someone who will recognise herself and she should, I think like it as well. :)

After that great book, I found myself in the world of Julia Quinn and What happens in London. " Rumours and gossip...the life-blood of London." You'll like it, so much that you won't be able to stop reading. I finished this one in two days!!!
The story begin by a young woman Olivia Bevelstoke, who, when she heard a rumor about her new neighbour may have killed his fiancée! She doesn't believe it for a second, but still, curiosity wins. She can't resist. How can she help spying on him, just to be sure? And she begins to spy him by looking at her bedromm window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches and waits. She discovers a most intriging man who is definitely up to someting....
Sir Harry Valentine works for the boring branch of the War Office, translating documents vital to national security. He's not a spy but he's had all the training, and when a gorgeous blonde decides to watch him from her window he is instantly suspicious. But just as he decides that she's nothing than a noisy debutante, he discovers that she might be engaged to a foreign prince, who could plot against England. And when Harry is roped into spying on Olivia, he realises that he may well be falling for her himself.
Book fun and simple, original characters, full of envie. It's really good as well. :)

Puis, me voilà, après quelques romances et intrigues drôles, plongé dans l'univers intriguant d'Harlan Coben, one his first novel: Play Dead. Really good and still couldn't read it, I had to know the end! I begin on a saturday, and finish on the following day, on the sunday!!! :) I'm crazy but the book is really reallly good again and you have to know the end. It's (almost) impossible otherwise!
The story? It should have been the happiest time of her life. But Laura Ayars' honeymoon turned into a nightmare when her sports superstard husband went for a swim and never returned.
Whilst struggling to cope with her almost overwhelming grief, Laura is plagued by questions and doubts. Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or is it some terrible, ill-judged hoax? As event unfold, Laura starts, to question David's mysterious disappearance. She begins to uncover a conspiracy which reaches deep into the past, and is now slowly begin to destroy everyone involved. And someone will do anything to keep Laura away from the truth. And she has no idea who she can trust...
Simply fascinating and again great book! :)

Then after an overwhelming book, I read another: The Love trainer by Julia Llewellyn
Katie Wallace had her heart broken once and doesn't want to have it again. Nor anyone or the other women. She struggles to find a job she likes, she discovers that she has some good social skills and also gives somme advice. Katie has this original idea that man can be trained like dogs! (no, you're not dreaming!) , and have all sorts of different theories around that subject. But she'll come to realises that, it's not always like that. Can you really coach a man like you would a dog? I'll let you discover the anwser...
Nice book, a lot of fun and you'll want to know the end! :)

After Carol Matthews ( english writer that I like) and her "The Chocolate Lovers Club" et ses heroÎnes toujours prêtes pour aider l'une des leurs, quoiqu'il arrive entre emmerdes et amours, voici: The Yorkshire Pudding Club written by Milly Johnson, a story of three good friends who becomes pregnant almost at the same time. Nine month' membership, A lifetime's friendship.
When three South Yorkdhire friends picnic on a top of a ancient fertility symbol, who would have known that within four months they would actually all have their eggs fertilised!
For Helen, pregnancy is a dream come true. But the more the baby growns inside her, the more she can see her outwardly perfect marriage crumbling before her eyes.
For a career woman like Janey, becoming pregnant, it's a nightmare. How could she got pregnant when with her husband, George ( enthusiastic about being a dad), they're always careful on contraception? How is that possible?
For Elizabeth, not only carrying a child she fears that she won't be able to love, she has to deal with the return of a man whose love she can never have.
A book full of surprise as you can see our three heroines becoming more and more pregnant, trying not to be scared. Three strong women, with their issues but who seems to be there for each other whatever happens. :) A good lecture about friendship, showing us that it's one the most important thing in life and that even if we find love, friends are always here, around us and it's really good to have them and do everything we can to help each other, to show them, that we care or simply say that we are here, not to far away. :)

Sur cette belle liste de livres lu this past few weeks, I was wondering whether I was normal or not, but I think I'm not et ça me va. J'aime beaucoup les livres and always like it. Je ne m'en cache pas, j'adore ça! (smile discreet). Peu importe, si l'on me prend pour un ovni. J'adore me plonger dans les livres et découvrir leur héros ou héroïnes tout au long du bouquin. C'est un délice! C'est un plaisir qui m'accompagne depuis toujours! :) Et vous savez quoi? Je ne m'en lasse pas! Bonne lecture à tous! :) ;)

Take care and see you soon for a new adventures and more details on my english life in Bognor Regis and Chichester and life at university! :)
After all this good books, I'm reading now, and for the need of the course, (again but not a problem) J'ai d'ailleurs revue récemment une des nombreusses versions adaptées, toujours auss bien que vous voulez savoir la suite. Des personnages haut en couleurs, très bien intréprétés par autre Toby Stephens (as Mr Rochester) and Ruth Wilson (as Jane Eyre). Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. A great story. Jane Eyre is an orphan and she is raised but her aunt, Mrs Reed and her three children. Her husband, John Reed made her promess to raise Jane as her own child. Which she won't do it and will treat badly. She doesn't like Jane Eyre at all. Fortunelately, Jane as a friend, Bessie, a servant, who is attached to her and helpl get through every day. But one day, Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood school. Life is not good and you die from diseases. Jane will have a good friend Helen Burns, who died, because she is very ill.
Years laters, Jane became a teatcher. She paints and draw very well and she has learn French.
One day, after having advetise, she becomes the governess of Adèle, a french girl, who is the ward of a certain Mr Rochester, who lives in Thornfield Hall. Peu a peu, une relation de confiance et de profond respect, for each other is settled. Soon it's becomes Loves. Despite of everything they fall in love. But Rochester has secret that could keep him and Jane forever apart... Can Jane choose bewteen what is right and her own happiness? Can Love come over everything?
I'll let you discover la suite en lisant ce magnifique novel, written by Charlotte Brontë, qui s'est entre autre inspiré de sa vie pour créer le personnage de Jane Eyre. :)

Sur ce ceux, je vais rejoindre le pays du sommeil et des rêves, mes yeux se ferment et j'ai dû mal à placer deux mots l'un devant l'autre. Je m'excuse donc par avance si quelques fautes de frappes se sont glissées. :) (rire).
Bonne nuit et faites de beaux rêves! Take care, see you soon for another article, xxx