The smartest promise ever made by an eighteen years old adolescent to her mother: “And I promised my mother I wouldn’t fall in love with anyone until I’m twenty-three.” And the reason for this promise is: “My mother says that the…
On HBO GO you can watch the series “Victoria”, realized after the book with the same name, written by Daisy Goodwin. It is always more comfortable for me to read historical facts through fiction. So, I was very interested in reading…
A long, long time ago, for every American girl (filthy rich) there was an English boy (poor but owning a great title). The contract which was not written but well understood in advance meant that the American girl by marrying the English…
This love story made quite an impression on me because it was for the first time that I read a book where one of the main characters had Asperger syndrome. Helen Hoang, the author of her first novel “The kiss quotient”,…
When I started reading this book, and I got to the scene where Hayes, the 20 years old singer of the band, flirts with Solène, the 40 years old mother of his fan, I wanted to stop reading because it…
Any relationship/ marriage has multiple facets, and the writer A.S.A. Harrison (who died before her first novel “A silent wife” was published) knew very well to show it to us. I must confess that when I read the book in 2013,…
I discovered the author Julian Fellowes in 2005 when I bought his book “Snobs”; this was happening five years before he created the famous series “Downton Abbey”. The action of the book takes place in England in the ’90s, and the…
I was in Berlin when I ate for the first time in a no-lights at all restaurant. As partially-blind waitresses served me, I realized what it means to be blind. And I lost my appetite, and I wanted to leave as…
“My name is Renée. I am 54 years old. For 27 years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into 8 luxury apartments, all of which…
When I read the book, I did not know that the main female character was based (more or less) on Laura Bush (the wife of the American president George W. Bush). I also did not know that the story of the…
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