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Titre: Le sabotage amoureux

Auteur: Amélie Nothomb

Narrateur: Pauline Huruguen

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-21-16

Éditeur: Éditions Thélème

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Aucun journal, aucune agence de presse, aucune historiographie n'a jamais mentionné la guerre mondiale du ghetto de San Li Tun, qui dura de 1972 à 1975. C'est à la faveur de cette barbarie que j'ai compris une vérité immense : grâce à l'ennemi, ce sinistre accident qu'est la vie devient une épopée. La mienne serait grandiose : les généraux de l'armée des Alliés m'avaient nommée éclaireur. Sans l'arrivée d'Elena, je serais restée invulnérable jusqu'au bout. Je l'ai aimée dès la première seconde. Elle fut ma belle Hélène, ma guerre de Troie, mon sabotage amoureux. J'ai tout vécu pendant ces trois années : l'héroïsme, la gloire, la traîtrise, l'amour, l'indifférence, la souffrance, l'humiliation. C'était en Chine, j'avais sept ans."

©1993 Albin Michel (P)2014 Éditions Thélème

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À propos de ce titre

Prix Jacques Chardonne 1993.

Avis des membres:

le sabotage amoureux

I NEVER received this book : Le Sabotage Amoureux. So I did not read it!!

Instead i received a second copy of Stupeur Et Tremblement.

Amelie Nathomb is extraordinary. She writes a beautiful sophisticated perfect French full of nostalgic and sometimes sarcastic humor.

For a French native it is a nectar.

Enchanting Moments

I just finished reading Le Sabotage Amoureux by Amelie Nothomb (English title: Loving Sabotage). This is the second book I've read by Nothomb. The first was Fear and Trembling.

Nothomb's writing is simple and flowing, yet she manages to surprise the reader with deep insights into everyday situations and happenings. In Le Sabotage Amoureux she writes from the perspective of a small girl, daughter to a Belgian diplomat, growing up in the early 70s in Beijing, China.

Based on her own experiences as a child, Nothomb succeeds to expose the intricacies of a child's mind and its charming imagination: skirmishes between children become an all-out war, a bicycle becomes a galloping horse and an infatuation with another girl becomes a dramatic love story.

Apparently, Nothomb has become somewhat of a cult figure among readers in francophone countries. It's easy to see why. Treat yourself to some enchanting moments with this short and delightful book.

Thoughtful presentation of the world of a child

In this autobiographical novel, Amelie Nothomb presents with verve and veracity the world as she sees it at seven years old. While set in China, where she lived from the age of 5 to 8, very little treatment of China itself is possible for her, given her age and isolation (like all foreigners at the time) from the Chinese. "Loving Sabotage" portrays the author, hopelessly "in love" (in the way we know love in childhood, not romantically) with a seemingly distant, unreachable 6-year-old Italian beauty.

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Title: When the Music's Over

Subtitle: The 23rd DCI Banks Mystery

Author: Peter Robinson

Narrator: Simon Slater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused and thrown from a moving van - before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks must do the same - but the crime Banks is investigating is the coldest of cases.

Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation, and it's Banks' first task as superintendent to find out the truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence.

With his investigation uncovering things from the past that would rather stay hidden, he will be led down a path even darker than the one he set out to investigate....

Members Reviews:

Bang up to the minute!

This is the 23rd of Peter Robinson's DCI Banks criminal investigations - and it could not be more of the moment. The two strands are the murder of 15 year-old Mimsie Moffat, thrown out naked into the darkness from a vehicle containing three Asian men, and the conviction of Danny Caxton, now in his eighties but one-time big name in the pop industry - and serial rapist.

What the author does extremely well is make a cracking good, meaty story out of these all too familiar themes, but without tabloid sensationalism. The various characters provide the stereotypical reactions to these kinds of events - such as saying that Mimsie and Linda Palmer, Paxton's virgin victim 50 years ago, were well up for it and deserved what they got - whilst the back stories as they emerge develop the realities of their lives. The social situations which have produced young girls like Mimsie susceptible to older Asian men's flattery and gifts are explored with subtlety and understanding, as well as the Asian men's views and experiences. Linda Palmer's family holiday in Blackpool which ended with her life-changing rape is vividly presented through her teenage diaries; Danny Caxton's past is gradually unwrapped and found to contain worse than rape. Through this fiction, hard-hitting and difficult social issues are explored with a vigour and toughness not generally found in the Press. At the same time, the author gives us understanding of the complexities and problems involved in the minds and experiences of the different people which make up our troubled society.

I gave overall 4 and not 5 because I found it rather long. Some tightening up (eg shortening some of the interviews) would have increased the intensity without sacrificing any of the content.

The topical crimes brought to life

Its hard to believe that this is the 23rd Detective Banks novel. Ive read or listened to them all and am glad to say that in the present book the author has maintained his high standard of story-telling. Though a crime and detection novel this particular book, more than the others, delves deeply into social, and racial issues around two story lines of topics recently much in the news: historical sexual assaults by celebrities and grooming of underage white girls by older, Asian men.

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Title: All the Time in the World

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Caroline Angell

Narrator: Barrie Kreinik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-12-16

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An unforgettable debut about a young woman's choice between the future she's always imagined and the people she's come to love.

Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising career when she takes a babysitting job with the McLeans, a glamorous Upper East Side Manhattan family. At first the nanny gig is just a way of tiding herself over until she has licked her wounds and figured out her next move as a composer in New York. But as it turns out, Charlotte is naturally good with children and becomes as deeply fond of the two little boys as they are of her.

When an unthinkable tragedy leaves the McLeans bereft, Charlotte is not the only one who realizes that she's the key to holding little George and Matty's world together. Suddenly, in addition to life's usual puzzles, such as sorting out which suitor is her best match, she finds herself with an impossible choice between her lifelong dreams and the torn-apart family she's come to love.

Caroline Angell's remarkable and generous debut is the story of a young woman's discovery of the things that matter most.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful Story

This is a story about grief and how people handle grief. Although there are many sad moments, it's also strangely uplifting with moments that make you smile and even laugh.

You'll absolutely fall in love with the heroine Charlotte as you follow your way watching her handle responsibilities no one in her position should be asked of, and also watching her figure out her own wants and needs.

This story jumps around time often, so keep that in mind if that's not your thing.

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Title: The Reunion

Subtitle: The Friessens, Book 1

Author: Lorhainne Eckhart

Narrator: Valerie Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-16

Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The family you thought you knew.

A reunion you'll never forget.

A love that lasts forever.

Welcome back to a very special Friessen reunion, in which Becky and Rodney renew their wedding vows. Joined by their sons Brad, Jed, Neil, and their nephew Andy, along with their wives and children. This family will show you how love will see them through all the heartache and obstacles life throws their way.

Members Reviews:

True to life

This celebration of family is a culmination of the other Friessen books. While I have not yet read them, the story is a true depiction of family life. We are confronted at first with the stroke of Becky, and just coming home from rehabilitation is ready to have her boys, daughter-in-laws and grandchildren surrounding her to help celebrate her anniversary with Rodney. The three sons each have a wife, each with their own struggles. I found this refreshing, the book is honest and gritty with the problems that each of the couples face and how they interact with each other. I do think this should not be the preface for the series though, knowing the backgrounds from the other books would have been helpful in understanding the depth of characters better.

Valerie Gilbert narrates this book with her incredible versatility. She is able to take a story like this and give each character it's own voice, easily discernible when listening. From the stroke victim of Becky and her difficulty of speaking all the way to the children's voices, her talent comes forth letting you feel the pain, angst and love of this family.

Book 1

Any additional comments?

I like all the little glimpses that The Reunion gave into the Friessen clan. This book gives a real look into what makes relationships work, the good, the bad, the ugly. And it shows the strength and love that comes from a family together.

The Reunion

This was my first book by this author and narrator and the both did an amazing job with this story. From the beginning Becky draws you in. You may feel great compassion for her since she is recovering from a stroke. But don't let that fool you this woman is stronger than that stroke. She has amazing strength and her mind is sharp! She is a wonderful character! If you are just starting the series, like I am, you get a bit of back story on each character. You do feel in some areas like you need a bit more info, but that would be wasted on veterans of the series. Which I now look forward to! Great story with real life issues!

Family

Any additional comments?

When starting this I felt a little lost and thinking this was part of another series that explained it a little better. As I continued to read I found this to be turn as the author talks about other storylines. It took me a little while to catch up but soon it all fell into place.

Valerie Gilbert did a great job on the narration. She gives a very smooth listen with wonderful character voice. She goes give wonderful emotion and you can tell what each are feeling. Her characters voices were great you did not have any trouble telling who was talking. I did enjoy her many character voices you could always tell who was talking and just what was on their mind. I found no background or any places where the volume was higher or lower at the beginning of a chapter. You could not tell if any breaks were taken the audio was a smooth clean lesson. Her male voices were a good as her female ones.

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Titre: La femme au carnet rouge

Auteur: Antoine Laurain

Narrateur: Bertrand Suarez-Pazos

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-30-16

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Un matin à Paris, alors qu'il ouvre sa librairie, Laurent Letellier découvre dans la rue un sac à main abandonné. Curieux, il en fait l'inventaire et découvre, faute de papiers d'identité, une foule d'objets personnels : photos, parfum... et un carnet rouge rempli de notes. Désireux de retrouver la propriétaire du sac, Laurent s'improvise détective. A mesure qu'il déchiffre les pages du carnet contenant les pensées intimes de l'inconnue, le jeu de piste se mue progressivement en une quête amoureuse qui va chambouler leurs vies.

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©2014 Les éditions J'ai lu (P)2016 Audible FR

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A delightful Paris-based novel involving parallel searches for two unknown people

Antoine Laurain, born at the start of the 1970s, began winning French literary prizes with his very first book and has enjoyed widespread popularity, both at home and abroad, ever since. "La femme au carnet rouge" (The Woman with the Red Notebook) illustrates why. It is a relatively short novel blessed by a disciplined writing style that calls to mind talented short-story authors and by a fascinating plot premise. An attractive middle-aged Parisian woman loses her handbag in the course of a brutal mugging. By the time that the handbag is found by a gentleman owner of a local bookstore, it has been stripped of key identifying information, and thus begins a detective story as he searches for the owner. "La femme au carnet rouge" was first published in 2014, about the time that the French novelist Patrick Modiano took home the Nobel Prize for Literature. Modiano, a master of complex books about memory, time, and identity, figures as a secondary character in the hunt for clues. In one chapter, Laurain seemingly tries to imitate Modiano's style, and this creates a somewhat disjunctive mood in what is otherwise a most charming narrative.

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Titre: La citadelle des neiges

Auteur: Matthieu Ricard

Narrateur: Matthieu Ricard

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 2 hrs and 10 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-21-16

Éditeur: Éditions Thélème

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Un conte empreint de sagesse et de poésie, qui parle à nos cœurs et nous ouvre les chemins de la sérénité.

©2002 Nil (P)2002 Éditions Thélème

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Titre: Dear you : Épisode 1

Auteur: Emily Blaine

Narrateur: Jessica Monceau

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 hr and 39 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-15-16

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Bienvenue au Peninsula, un palace de rêve au cœur de la ville qui ne dort jamais. C'est là qu'officie Kathleen, dont la mission, en tant qu'hôtesse d'accueil, est de satisfaire toutes les demandes de ses prestigieux clients. Pour la plupart dentre eux, elle est transparente - mais pas pour Andrew Blake. Dès son arrivée à lhôtel, ce magnat de la presse, secret et extrêmement charismatique, semble s'intéresser de très près à Kat. Depuis qu'elle occupe ce poste, c'est la première fois quon la remarque. Si elle se sent d'abord flattée, très vite, cette attention soudaine la déstabilise. Il faut dire que les exigences de son nouveau client sont plutôt troublantes...

©2014 Harlequin S.A. (P)2016 Audiolib

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Title: They Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Author: David Savill

Narrator: Malk Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-16

Publisher: Wholestory Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1994 Marko Novak's world is torn apart by the death of his best friend - Kemal Lekic, a soldier in the Bosnian war. After the funeral Marko flees to England, hoping to put his broken homeland behind him.

In 2004 human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a Bosnian man with blood on his hands. What no one can know is that a disaster as destructive as war is approaching...a disaster that will connect the fates of Marko and Anya across the years and continents.

Members Reviews:

Vivid and poetic

I finished reading this book around two weeks ago, and the characters are still populating my thoughts. Their love for one another, their struggles, their heart breaking stories of just-missed opportunities, invite the reader not only to share their sorrow, but also to join them in unravelling the threads of the questions that have plagued their thoughts after the calamitous deaths of Markoâs beloved friend Kemal and Williamâs lover Anya.

The stories of these four main characters are played out a decade apart, in 1994 during the Bosnian war and in 2004 at the time of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. As such, the novel is at times harrowing and at times joyously appreciative of the human condition.

The settings and the consciousness of the characters are drawn so poetically that there are lines from this novel that you will want to memorise. I will leave you with three beautiful examples (and defy you not to want to read this book!

âOver a black sea, the moon rolled a flickering ribbon of light.â

âWhatever lightness entered William on the way back from Bangkok, whatever sense of wonder for the world, it has stepped out of him and is walking away, leaving only the noise of the room swelling in his ears.â

âPeople are like those tipping cups in Japanese gardens, filled with a constant stream of water, compelled to tip. She will take what he has told her, and at some point or another, it will be tipped into someone else. And like this, drop by drop, the water will recede from him, taking Anya with it.â

I found this book a little hard to get into at the start but I am glad I continued as I was able to relate to ...

The book is based around the Bosnian war and a Tsunami disaster spanning over two different decades. The survival and effects each traumatic event had on the different characters lives, was very well potrayed by the author.

I found this book a little hard to get into at the start but I am glad I continued as I was able to relate to the characters as the story progressed.

4 stars from me and I look forward to reading further books from this author.

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in return for my honest review.

Hard to follow

I found this book very hard to follow. I am a fan of stories that move around time wise, but this one didn't quite work for me.

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Title: The Lubetkin Legacy

Author: Marina Lewycka

Narrator: Toby Longworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.

A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds.

Members Reviews:

If he was still alive he'd be spining in his grave

After Lewycka'sTractors in Ukraine I was looking forward to this, but was disappointed.

The extremely busy straggling plots centre on Bertold Sidebottom who imports Inna, an elderly, wildly eccentric Ukranian, to impersonate his mother in order to ensure that he doesn't lose the tenancy on the London council flat he shared with his mother before her death. Parallel to this story is Violet, the young Kenyan intent on doing her bit to stop violations (including that of her boss at International Wealth Preservation against herself) and against communal cherry trees threatened with the axe, and against international financial scams and swindles.

It's certainly immensely energetic and packed with gutsy and impassioned swipes at all the government-policies-induced ills in our society from zero hours contracts to bedroom tax and rubbish jobs; there's an entertaining potpourri of languages and a crowd of vibrant characters. The language is inventive and fun - from Ukraine, Kenya, management speak, young and old Londoners - and some dialogue made me laugh, like Bertold's old mother's words in the title to this review. I liked the 'lettuce-leaf handshake' and 'media-mouthed crap' too. The trouble is that there is just too much going on so that the characters never develop as real people, and the 'funny' parts can lose sight of reality and become just silly.

There's plenty of sharp observation, and there's pathos too. Legless Len dies because his electricity was cut off and he couldn't cool his insulin; Bertold is struggling to recover after the death of his young daughter and the disintegration of his marriage - but these elements are too rushed to engage the listener's sympathies and merely sit uncomfortably with the questionable slapstick-farce elements, such as the coffin of Bertold's mother bursting open at the funeral.

The whole is too heavy-handed. The repetition becomes irritating and any comic effect of hearing the phrases for the first time is lost. Flossie the Parrot squawks inappropriately and the door bell goes Ding Dong far too often; Inna must have rattled through her repertoire of Ukranian pies and cakes more than fifty times; Bertold constantly makes comparisons between himself and George Clooney which add nothing. Chunks of background information - the war-history of Odessa; corruption in Kenya - stick out awkwardly from the narrative.

All of that said, if you want a fun-romp with some food for thought, you won't be disappointed.

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Title: After the Last Dance

Author: Sarra Manning

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-16

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Kings Cross station, 1943: As the bombs fall, Rose loses her heart to a pilot but will lose so much more before the war has done its worst. Las Vegas, present day: A beautiful woman in a wedding dress walks into a seedy bar and asks the first man she sees to marry her.

So when Jane meets Rose, now a formidable older lady, there's no love lost between them. But with time running out, can Rose and Jane come together to make peace with the secrets that have haunted their lives?

Critic Reviews:

After the Last Dance is an extraordinary story of two women, separated by time but connected by fate, that will make you believe in the redemptive power of unexpected love.

"Sarra Manning pulls you straight in with another fantastically addictive, beautifully written read." PAIGE TOON on It Felt Like a Kiss

Members Reviews:

Perfection

Truly the best audiobook that I've listened to. It's touched me on so many levels, I loved every word.