This is the sotyr of a family, seen through the eyes of the 3 kids. This is a cruel story, but who is lived by very different ways by all the family members and somehow, their common unhappiness gather them together.

Il n’y a qu’une lettre qui ne sépare “lire” et “livre”. Si tu ne lis plus, tu es complètement enfermé.

Quand on est triste, on ne juge pas. Je connais plein de gens tristes qui sont méchants. Alors ce sont des gens malheureux.

Dans la vie, il y a des bas, mais ca remonte toujours.

This is the story of a woman, around 1860, living up norht in Sweden, as non maried and with two kids. She decides to move to Norway to esacape the shame that the church and the society want her to carry because of her two kids outside a marriage. So she moves. She gets herself in some relationship that will show that these times were hard and unfair for women (really?). I’m stricked by her naivity, even if as the same time, I can’t help to think that she should have been helped by other who understood better.

I read a whole book yesterday and I’m not sure what I think of it now. This is a book in Swedish called Mother, an advantage for the career and it gives advices on how to get forward thanks to your parenthood.

On one hand, there are quite good comparisons described in the book on how to act at work, being a better colleague, thanks to the behavior learnings you get while becoming a parent (like reading between the lines, being patient, choosing your fights).

But on the other hand, it supposes that you were bad at it before, that it came to you just by giving birth to a child and that everyone without kids are not so good at it either. I guess people without kid don’t have interest in reading this kind of literature but I also know a lots of people who have kids and who are bad at a lot.

Well, I guess the main purpose of the book is to give hope to new mothers in their future career and it could enlighten some. It took as I wrote one evening to read, so I would maybe recommend it because of that (and some humor in the texts as well).

Z has shown interest for letters recently. She points at them and says “ssss” or “ooooo” or “iiiii” depending on what she sees. Since I have a parental leave day, I decided to make her an alfabet. Well, we first spent the day and lunch out with good friends of us and while she was sleeping, I made the letter collection, both for French and swedish.

When I was au-pair, the kids I was taking care of went to a preschool working with Montessori method. The Montessori method views the child as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It attempts to develop children physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively.

I don’t pretend to learn Z how to read now, but she shows interest, so I want to encourage her to explore. Let’s see if it will work!

This is the last book I finished and I liked it a lot. If you are going to relax a bit for vacation and wonder how far you came with your relationships, then was this book, a guide to a evoluting relationship between a man and a woman who decided at a point to say yes to each other for the better and the worse.

More about the story here.

I just finished this book (not sure it is available in another language than swedish). It gave good advises to improve your life. Good words from successful people are also grouped in the book.

This is one more book I’ve read this year and I had the pleasure to make it outside. I like the story and the description about ifentity. Who am I when I am not living where I come from? This is something I have to deal with everyday and I thought a lot about my daughter will have to deal with it too. Well written I like this book very much. It gave me a lot of reflections.

This was an hilarious collection of short novels, which made me laugh while reading.

I recommend it if you find the time a bit long until the next holiday.

This is the first book I finished to read this year and I liked it.

Story of a family who fight for a living. It happens quite improbable things in a short period of time but it was a book easy to read. Good moral amd nice writp.

Picture borrowed here: https://www.jojomoyes.com/books/the-one-plus-one/

Scary book. Good but scary. I had to stop reading at night because i was having nightmares.

Did I say that I force myself to read more? Well, I do. Just because it gives me more than the same time playing with my phone.

My latest reading was “demain, j’arrête”, book I got from a good friend. It was a funny book, and themost interesting was that it felt as if it was my friend who wrote it. I recommend it for the ones who need some smiles.

I bought this book one day I had some dead time before a train I had to catch. The idea was to have something easy to read in order to kill the waiting. After having read all of the book now, I wonder when I’ll plan time to read it a second time.

This is easy written, no big litteratur there, but full of insights, tips and stories about how to have the life you dream on. You can use it fir your private life, at work and so on. I grew while reading it.

A novel based on real facts about US history, the not clean one. Touching, the last pages made me both sad and hopeful.

Second book of the vacations and it didn’t last long. I needed two evenings to be done with it and it showed the side of the genocide in Rwanda, seen from the eyes of a boy. Very much poetry for a hard story.

Second book of this summer, in French this time. The story was very unpredictable and I liked this. I can easily be bored with books which story is too easy to figure out and these 800 pages were exciting to read. The story reminded me of the serie “the affair”  somehow but with a murder twist.

Well, I recommend it.

This is the last book I listened to and iy wa surprisingly good. Well, to be honest,  I had no big ideas about it before the reading and even if it was a book about end of relationship,  I got scared as with a good murder story. 

The book is read by the author herself and I have to say that the audio book may be much better than the papper form. She was a good narrative. 

This is the last book I read, from 2017. It’s very accurate this week with the week of Almedalen which just began. The story reminds me of a nice House of cards bathing in prejudice from life in Stockholm.  Even Blondinbella is in the book. 

It was an ok book, specially interesting when you know that the author was Reinfeldt’s PR man. Somehow,  when I was comparing with my own professional life, I thought that it was even too nice in the book sometimes. Maybe time for me toget some vacations…

Vacations for me this year is synonymous with reading. Long time ago I read that much and it was almost 2000 pages from Pierre Lemaitre that occupied my mind.

I began with four of his crime novels, which were very surprising and finished yesterdsy with the book he got a price Goncourt for. I warmly recommend this book for the one who like hunir, cynism and surprising stories. Long time ago I couldn’t let a book on the table because I wanted to know what happens next.

Last week, I attented something new for me. I went to a book release and on the top of that: I knew for real one of the authors! It was intresting to listen to them talking about the books and to read a part of them as well. Like story telling for adults. Wonderfull!

I came back home with a load of energy to read but… no. I haven’t read a line since then. I get some kind of anxious behaviour when I take a book, sit myself somewhere confortable and tell to myself: “now, you will read a book and be a good girl”. And it doesn’t matter which book it is, I have plenty of books I genuinly am interested in, but the fact to sit and read stresses me. Which is a big paradox. It is as if I wasn’t done to sit calmly and use my brain.

Well, luxury problem, somehow but I will read your book D, I promise!

This is not every day I can tell that I know a writer. For real! Our friend David Norlin publishes his first novel and I cannot wait to read it myself!

Here you get a recension in swedish: http://bearbooks.se/2016/01/15/recension-dagar-utan-ljus-natter-utan-morker-av-david-norlin/

And you can buy the book (in Swedish)  here.

picture borrowed from here: http://www.weylerforlag.se/bocker/dagar-utan-ljus-natter-utan-morker/

This book that I read today is a dramatic description of being different in a poor, very poor area of France at the beginning of the 2000′. Even if I grew up in much better conditions, I can recognize the “traditions” of kids, teenagers and adults when one people is different. This book talks about homosexuality, but I’m sure every too smart or too easy girl, every too darkskined people would have felt the same. Main problem: how do I fit in? Second problem: how do I escape?

The book was very well written and gets a lots of likes from me, even if the subject is sad. Never forget how difficult it was, or still is, in some places of the world, just to have the right to be different.

I found it difficult to come into this book. It is written like a poem but it’s a prose. You can guess that something aweful will happen (story of a German Jew girl that begins in the 30′) but somehow, it took 150 pages to become interesting.

I am not really into reading about others unlucky life’s. I use to think that life is terrible enough in itself, so I prefer action and job for my brain. This book was full of romance and sadness and craziness. At the end of the reading, I feel bad by discovering one more unlucky love, broken destiny and terrible misunderstandings. During the reading I forgot a bit about this poem form thing.

Well, it depends of your tastes but this will not be the book of the year for me.

Life on the country side is lonely and boring when it’s raining outside. I experienced it yesterday. It rained the whole day and the temperature went down a lot. Even in the house, which made that I spent the evening in bed, with an extra blanket, reading.

I noticed this morning that I am dreaming a lot here during the night. I guess it’s because I don’t pollute my brain with computer watching (no internet).

For the rest, I was very happy this morning to read that Damon Albarn, 47 years old, did not want to leave the scene at the Roskikde festival. Good, good Damon!