BouquinerRegarder
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Ouh j'ai pas aimé ! L'héroïne ça va mais son amoureux non ! Il y a un peu les mêmes ingrédients que dans son autre romance (le temps qui passe, l'occasion manquée) mais là c'est raté !
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C'est bien fichu, avec pas mal de souffrances quand même (j'aime bien 😂) : l'héroïne a en partie raté sa vie au début du livre (bon elle a la trentaine, il lui reste de la marge), et elle est pétrie de regrets.
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Divertissant, sans plus.
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A beautiful novel with a very poetic writing about the life of Telumee, whose grand mother was a freed slave in Guadeloupe. It tells a life of hardships and happiness on a beautiful island. She writes a lot about the land, the plants and the sun, and Telumee tells us about her place on earth.
C'est un très beau roman à l'écriture poétique, très métaphorique, où Telumee nous raconte sa vie, en commençant par celle de sa grand-mère, première génération de noirs libres en Guadeloupe. Ça parle d'héritage et de la place qui nous est donnée sur terre, de celle que l'on se fait. De ce qu'on fait des souffrances de nos ancêtres aussi. Par contre je ne le choisis clairement pas pour le faire étudier à des Premières. Je le trouve trop difficile à lire pour cet âge.
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Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Télumée, paysanne de la Guadeloupe née au début du siècle, a été élevée par sa grand-mère, "haute négresse" justement nommée Reine Sans Nom. Télumée a souffert de sa condition de femme, de Noire et d'exploitée. Pourtant, qu'elle soit en compagnie d'Elie ou au côté d'Amboise, le révolté, sa volonté de bonheur, de "récolter par pleins paniers cette douceur qui tombe du ciel", est la plus forte. Voici l'univers des Antilles, avec ses couleurs, ses odeurs, sa vérité secrète, livré par une romancière qui s'approprie la langue française pour la soumettre à la musique noire.
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Difficile de mettre une critique sur une lecture obligatoire pour le programme du bac. Un roman arthurien classique.
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Aristote et Dante découvrent les secrets de l'univers
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Une histoire d'amour, d'une profondeur et d'une justesse bouleversantes ! Aristote, 15 ans, est un adolescent en colère dont le frère est en prison. Dante est un garçon du même âge, hyper expansif, qui voit le monde à sa façon. Quand ils se rencontrent à la piscine, ils semblent n'avoir rien en commun. Pourtant, ils commencent à passer du temps ensemble et développent une profonde amitié. Une de ces relations qui change la vie et dure pour toujours. Et ils en ont bien besoin car entre un frère absent dont personne ne parle, un père qui porte en lui les souvenirs de toute une guerre et des cauchemars terribles pour Ari, la vie est plus que difficile. Se tisse alors entre les deux garçon une véritable amitié d'abord, puis une histoire d'amour : c'est l'un avec l'autre et l'un pour l'autre, que les deux garçons vont partir en quête de leur identité et découvrir les secrets de l'univers.
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Le Chevalier de la Charrette
Chrétien de Troyes
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette a été composé vers la fin du 12ème siècle par Chrétien de Troyes et a fini par Godefroi de Lagny (dans le texte: «Le clerc Godefroi de Lagny a achevé La Charrette. Mais que personne ne lui reproche d'avoir continué le travail de Chrétien, car il l'a fait avec le complet accord de Chrétien qui l'a commencé.»: traduction de Daniel Poirion in Chrétien de Troyes, Œuvres complètes, Gallimard, La Pléiade, 1994, p. 682). Il a été terminé vers 1180 (sources: The Princeton Charrette Project à l'Universit" de Princeton et The Charrette Project 2 à l'Université de Baylor)
Ce poème a été le premier à introduire Lancelot comme l'une des figures principales de la légende du Roi Arthur. Il décrit la relation adultère entre Lancelot et Guenièvre, l'épouse du roi Arthur - et la volonté de Lancelot de se soumettre à l'humiliation d'être transporté dans la charrette, le véhicule honteux utilisé a transporter des hommes condamnés à la mort sur l'échafaud, afin de découvrir des nouvelles de la reine Guenièvre enlevée.
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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Tracy Deonn
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.
The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
Robin Hobb
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.
For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.
But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....
From the Paperback edition.
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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
S.A. Chakraborty
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
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The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1)
Saara El-Arifi
Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control.
Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistance.
Clear is the blood of the slaves, of the crushed, of the invisible.
Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the empire from the red-blooded ruling classes’ tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes.
Anoor has been told she’s nothing, no one, a disappointment, by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the empire. But when Sylah and Anoor meet, a fire burns between them that could consume the kingdom—and their hearts.
Hassa moves through the world unseen by upper classes, so she knows what it means to be invisible. But invisibility has its uses: It can hide the most dangerous of secrets, secrets that can reignite a revolution. And when she joins forces with Sylah and Anoor, together these grains of sand will become a storm.
As the empire begins a set of trials of combat and skill designed to find its new leaders, the stage is set for blood to flow, power to shift, and cities to burn.
Book One of The Ending Fire Trilogy
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She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
Shelley Parker-Chan
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…
In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.
When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu uses the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China.
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This is a very good one. The characters are very nicely done and the Oxbridge upper class students seems very realistic. The live story is nicely paced.
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See You at the Finish Line
Zac Hammett
Heartthrob George wants to prove he's smart enough to graduate. Nerdy Lucas wants to finally ask his crush out. They strike a deal to get what they want . . . but they may accidentally splash into a row-mance together in this queer, sports rom-com.George and Lucas can’t stand each other—which makes it very awkward being on the same Cambridge University rowing team. The uber-charming, all-American George got accepted at Cambridge for his sporting prowess, not his subpar grades. Economics whizz and sarcasm expert Lucas, meanwhile, works hard for everything he’s got, which sadly does not include a boyfriend.When the news leaks that George receives academic preferential treatment—Cambridge couldn’t lose their star athlete, after all—he’s told he must actually study this year to pass his exams. That’s when he zeroes in on Lucas for help. Lucas agrees, but on one George will teach Lucas his lothario ways so he can finally seduce his long-time crush, Amir.But soon they're in way over their heads, seducing and cheating their way to what they want. As they face rivals within their own squad and cutthroat competitors at Oxford, they find themselves unexpectedly becoming closer. What happens when your worst enemy may just be who you needed all along?
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Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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Our Perfect Storm
Carley Fortune
Best friends have one week in paradise to fix their friendship or fall apart in this heart-stopping, utterly romantic new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and One Golden Summer.
Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight years old. Both passionate, impulsive, and headstrong—they’ve always clashed . . . and come back together. Until now. It’s the eve of Frankie’s wedding weekend, and she doesn’t know where they stand or even if George will show up as her best man.
Then, at the start of the festivities, in walks George. For one glorious evening, surrounded by her loved ones, Frankie’s life is finally perfect. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancé dumps her the next morning, leaving only a note as an explanation.
Crushed and confused, Frankie returns to her family’s home to wallow. But George has a different idea and a plan for healing Frankie’s broken heart. He wants her to go on her honeymoon. With him. For one week, to the lush rainforests and misty beaches of Tofino.
Frankie agrees, seeing the trip for what it really is: one last chance to repair their friendship. Even if it means unearthing secrets and long buried feelings neither knows how to handle. Even if it means falling apart for good.
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