Book & tea

The reader’s rights by Daniel Pennac are from his book Comme un roman (Like a Novel) where he tries to desacralize the reading and open it to more people. 

These rights are

1) the right to not read

2) the right to jump pages

3) the right to not finish a book

4) the right to re-read a book

5) the right to read everything 

6) the right to bovarysme

7) the right to read everywhere

8) the right to scrunge 

9) the right to read aloud

10) the right to hold our tongue 

So : Read, no matter what. Just read <3 because it’s one of the few things where  you are totally free to do what you want .Even not read !

That’s not a real problem…

hu ?

Sorry ?

What did you say ? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of me screaming like a dinosaur trapped in a labyrinth because of a pre-school stress ;) 

The best of it all ?

I needed to read some books for my next school year… and how to put that ? My mind did a thing that I lOVE A LOT  :

he forgot about it !

So during my vacation I was like

“yeah ! sleep-food-tumblr-bit of fun books”…

and yesterday it was like

“Your inner internet connexion has been reestablished. You now can realize that you’ve to read 6 books for the next week.” 

Thanks mind. THANKS.

So be ready to know about The Picture of Dorian Gray; Proust; Flaubert and maybe another one before the end of the week :)

don’t thank me, my mind is really proud of himself (I can hear him giggling in the back of my head tss )…

I’m taking a little break between Flaubert and Boulgakov, because even if they are great authors, I missed this good ol’ fantasy ! And I was so lucky that I’ve finally found a copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman!!! Let’s do it !

ps : may I introduce you to Monsieur Crétin, who makes my life an actual misery ;) but he is really glad to show you what I’ve got (yeah, it’s a Raving Rabbids coming straight from the Moon) 

have a nice day / night love <3

30 DAY BOOK AND LITERATURE CHALLENGE  

Day 12 : Your favorite authors

This is quite hard for me to chose because I love a lot of writers. But I’ll pick only 6 so that I don’t overwhelme you with my fangirl’s screams :)

1) Be carefull everybody, it will surprise you but… F.S Fitzgerald is my top favorite author of all time and space ! No explanations ;) 

2) He is the philosopher I love the most but also a great play writer : J.P. Sartre. I discovered him 2 years ago and I can’t still get off his books ! I’m always thinking about them and the ideas and… well, everything :) (my favorite one is Dirty Hands , should check it out ^^) 

3) Shakespeare is just an obligation for me ! I’ve studied A Midsummer Night’s Dream for over a year, and I felt deeply in love with his style. I’ve read Hamlet before (my first Shakespeare) and it still is my favorite play ! 

4) Let’s go back to some fantasy,because fantasy is a classic : J.R.R Tolkien is the BEST of all, no one can’t say the contrary ;) he has such a great writting and there is so much adventures in his books ! 

5) I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but I’m a huge SF fan. My first discovery was Bradbury and I absolutely adore his books. I’ll read them over and over again without getting even slightly borred ! You can’t know how much I cried when he died. RIP.

6) Finally, I would say that Conan Doyle is one of my favorite. After all, Sherlock Holmes is such a great character, and there is so much things we learn through the books ! Definitely, you’ve got to  read one of them ! 

Have a nice day and more important : Have a nice reading <3

30 DAY BOOK AND LITERATURE CHALLENGE  

Day 10 : Name five absolutely great film adaptations of books. 

NB : I don’t know a lot of adaptation because I’ve got this habit of needing to read the book first. And since I can’t read a book as fast as that (which he is quite fast  ^^), it’s a bit short at the end… if you know what I mean.

The Great Gatbsy 

héhéhé… My adoration for this book is back sorry ;) the movie with Robert Redford is really great and it is so close to the book if you think about it ^^. (at least more than the new movie seems to be… hurg I can’t get over it. It doesn’t look at all like the book or the ambiance in it… I am annoyed and annoying sorry >.> )

Hamlet

Well, It’s not really a movie ^^”, it’s a BBC adaptation created for Christmas 2 years ago I think (not sure). There was David Tennant in it (10th doctor ! for those who know) , and I totally felt in love with this “movie”. It was awesome, and as I love the original play, I was so glad to see it ! It is something you need to see absolutely ! This year, they were doing Richard II until Henry V I think (with Tom Hiddleston T_T) 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

THIS movie. Oh my Odin. This movie ! It was such a great time seing it :D . The book is really good (even if it’s a bit long) but the movie ! Ah ! Such a great cast : Gary Oldman; Benedict Cumberbatch; Colin Firth ; Tom Hardy… A huge spy movie for a complex and researched book ! 

I’ll stop there because I can’t go further (god damnit ! I can’t miss the closing ceremony of the Olympics !)

Have a nice day / night my dears <3 

I’m such an awful blogger ! I’ve absolutely forgot I had started a book challenge !

By Odin, I must repair this now. Let’s go for some late articles !!

Hope it won’t bother you to much ;)

Thank you so much for following me <3 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian novel published in 1932. It is basically the description of a future world where the society control every single thing in the life of its citizens. Conditioning, mass production…there is no religion, and science is absolutely everything. 

When I read this book, written 80 years ago, I was stroke by the obvious parallelism we can do between this futuristic society where nobody is allowed to do something on his own and has to follow the rule of the society (not only in its work but also in its extra-activities) and our current world. 

Everything in this novel is so much actual that it is a bit frightening.

It describes the mass consumption, the reject of the people who are different, who looks different, who thinks different or simply who don’t want to do as the other.Because we can’t denied the fact that, even if difference is somewhat accepted nowadays, it is still a point of criticism by a majority of persons. 

It talks about the mass effect, the never ending consumption of product created by the society to prevent us from thinking by our own, developping our proper ideas. It is quite the effect of what we are seeing on tv, watching in theatre, what they are showing in ads…I can’t believe this novel has such a true resonance for us now ! 

Also, this novel is about how science took the main place in the world. Don’t know if you’ve got the same feelings but for me, now, if you aren’t good in math/physic…, if you don’t do scientific studies, you are nothing more than … nothing basically. If you don’t have a scientific job or something related to numbers, you are a little idiot who doesn’t know how the world work. In this novel, science is everything. Nobody knows Shakespeare or Kant, or Tolstoi, and they don’t care. The society is about science, but not the real one, just a part of it. Because it is too dangerous to let people know about true science. It is I believe a possible consequence of the fordism for the writter :)

Apart from those great ideas that are kind of reflecting our modern society, Huxley gives us a nice little story. I’ve truly loved the beginning with all the explanation of  how the society is working, I’ve been excited when we follow the two main characters in their journey, but what I’ve prefered in all of these parts is the meeting between the head of society, and the Savage because it is the most thoughtful moment I’ve ever read.

This novel is awesome because it has such a huge amount of reflections but also develops an unachievable romance that gives some kind of suspens to it, it was an astonishing reading and I can’t believe I didn’t read it sooner !

I’ve loved it, loved it, loved it and I hope you’ll like it too if you read it one day :) 

Lots of love <3 and keep reading !

ps : pictures by Wisseh, Tskrening and Meifu

 I was suppose to get my Pride & Prejudice book today but , you know, it wouldn’t be funny if the shop had it (‘ve ordered it a month ago…! ). So my little trip to the bookshop ended up with two other books. I needed to fix my sadness.

I bought Player One by Douglas Coupland and Minority Report by Philip K. Dick. 

I’ve heard a lot of good review on the first one, and I was dying to read it. I hope it is as great as I’ve heard, otherwise, I will be a bit regretful… I took the second one because I’ve never actually read Philip. K. Dick and he is such a huge sf author that I’m ashamed of it ><

Did you read any of them ? If you did, I will be truly glad to know what you think of them ! :)

Have a nice day my dear  <3