Amelie Nothomb's, " Tokyo Fiancee"

I am reading a delightful, darkly sardonic prose novel by Amelie Nothomb. Her twisty little books are brilliant and wash down fabulously with a slightly bitter raspberry tea and dark chocolate. Since I am only half done I am not going to comment just yet. Nothomb might be described as a Marguerite Duras turned stand up comic.

purple, purple flowers the color of Twilight

I'm feeling purple, said Princess Haiku and will blend in perfectly with the twilight.

Chedwick is looking for something different to read and once I start thinking about books it's hard to stop and so here is a summer reading list.


The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa
Stones from the River, Ursula Helgi


photo credit
Fires, Marguerite Yourcenar
The Character of Rain, Amelie Nothomb
The Blue Hour, Carolyn Forche,
Words in Stone, Yves Bonnefoy
Dictee, Theresa Hak Jyung Cha
The Pure and the Impure, Colette
Book of My Night, Li-Young Li
The Temple of my Familiar, Alice Walker
Wild Harmonies, Helene Grimaud

What are you reading?

Princess Haiku searches for an invisible book

Welcome to BookCrossing! (detailed information here)


Bookcrossing
The practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.

(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)

You've come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers' community. Our members love books enough to let them go — into the wild — to be found by others. Sharing your used books has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a free online book club of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. Inside, you'll find millions of book reviews and hundreds of thousands of passionate readers just like you.

Let's get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever!
The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing...

1. Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
2. Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
3. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records a journal entry for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!

Sounds easy, right? Well it is. It's also a fascinating exercise in fate, karma, or whatever you want to call the chain of events that can occur between two or more lives and one piece of literature. Oh, and we should mention, it's absolutely free and absolutely private, too.

So go grab a book or two from your shelves now (they're not doing anyone any good there, are they?), register them here, jot down our URL and the BCID we'll give you inside the covers, and then give them away or leave them where someone will find them.

If you like what you've heard about BookCrossing so far, and want to share some of your books with the world and track where they go forever, please take a quick minute and Join BookCrossing NOW - it's FREE and ALWAYS WILL BE!

Looking for a Good Book-Prix Goncourt 2006

26/08/2006

Prix Goncourt 2006

This year, Jonathan Littell gained celebrates his price for “the Benevolent Ones”. The price was decreed last on November 6.
These are the other 14 novels nominated by the jury.

The brother of Rousseau
Only sons

A bridge of birds
Antoine Audouard

The lover in short trousers
Alain Fleischer

Fault lines
Nancy Huston

Magic childhood

The wood of in love one
Gilles Lapouge

The désamour

Neither you nor me
Camille Laurens

Contours of the day which comes
Léonora Miano

Newspaper of Swallow
Amélie Nothomb

To disappear
Olivier and Patrick Pepper of Arvor

Marilyn last meetings
Michel Schneider

IN THE ZONE FOR A GOOD READ

Princess Haiku is looking for a good novel to read and enjoy literary fiction. I read a book, "Lullabies for Little Criminals," last week that was a very good first novel. Any suggestions?