Month: July 2016
Le Château Magique, La Princesse Azara et l’affreux Génie, Katie Chase
La famille Campbell allait habiter dans un château. Le château appartenait autrefois à tante Clarisse. Tante Clarisse est la grande tante de Cléa. Cléa a un secret: dans le château il y a partout des princesses. En disant bonjour à la princesse, Cléa arrive vers un autre univers… J’ai voulu lire ce livre parce que j’aime la magie. Je me demandais qui est l’affreux génie. Je me de...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
This is the story of a seagull. All the other seagulls of the flock are centered on food. They use their wings to fly the short distances to find fish. Jonathan Seagull is different. He loves to fly. Instead of food, his purpose in life is flying; higher, lower, quicker, slower, better and easier. But as he spends his whole days practicing, he is rejected by his flock and then finally banished as ...
The Ladies of Missalonghi, Colleen McCullough
The three ladies of Missalonghi, Missy, her mom and her aunt, have always lived very poorly, having just enough to survive, cast away and suppressed by their rich family. 30-year-old Missy still knows nothing of the world, except what she read in books, and dreams of one day getting out of this town called Byron. One day a stranger turns up, and has bought Missy’s favorite valley. That’...
Das Fräulein von Scuderi, E.T.A. Hoffmann
In diesem Buch geht es um eine der ersten bedeutenden französischen Schriftstellerinnen, Madeleine von Scuderi. Mitten in der Nacht bekommt sie von einem mysteriösen Mann ein Paket. Er bittet sie um Hilfe. Somit wird sie in die Geschichte eingewickelt, wobei Olivier Brusson, der Lehrling des Goldschmieds Cardillac, Tortur abwartend im Gefängnis sitzt, des Mordes am abgestochenen Cardillacs beschul...
La Sorcière de la rue Mouffetard et autres contes de la rue Broca, Pierre Gripari
Voilà 7 contes originels, drôles à lire, avec un peu de tout: courage, héroïsme, romance, tristesse, mais, comme chaque enfant le préfère, avec un happy end. Ce livre m’a véritablement donné l’impression de voir dans l’esprit et l’imagination d’un enfant, ou même de redevenir un enfant moi-même, mais écrit de manière entièrement compréhensible quoique simple. Je recom...
12 years a slave, Solomon Northup
After living many peaceful years with his family in the free north state of New York as a free black man, having several children and a loving wife, Solomon Northup was misled and then kidnapped by two men, pretending to want him for his excellent skills on the violin, and woke to his new life as a slave, in a cell and in chains. As early as his first day he already nearly got his life beaten out ...