Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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My penultimate read for is a classic by the great and mighty Colette, given audio perfection by Gabrielle de Cuir! It's Chéri & The End of Chéri!

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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It's fucking cold but my Sadie Pup and Colette are keeping me warm. In my mind it is June in Paris.

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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In which I ponder if there is a French equivalent to "fnord" - Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' ISLAND OF POINT NEMO (Tr by Hannah Chute)

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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Not going to blog about it because there's been plenty written about it already, for centuries, but very much enjoying, at last, CANDIDE, for I've got the free audio edition narrated by Jack Davenport, whom I still think of as Steve from Coupling, so imagining that hapless doofus as this other hapless doofus is an added comic dimension for the satire, or something.

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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I haven't bailed on here or any of my ongoing things like but IRL stuff keeps happening and eating up way too much time. If it was remotely fun or social that would be fine but... sigh.

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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My sophomore foray into brought me back into the aging punk-infested Paris and Nancy of the great Virginie Despentes. Bye Bye Blondie kicked my ass in the best way.
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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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Getting an early start on with BYE BYE BLONDIE and my demented adoration of Virginie Despentes continues unabated.

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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Putting a reading list together for and it's heavy on classics because I have the collected works of Balzac, Verne, Hugo, etc, plus I've never read Candide (I know, I know). I'd like some contemporary recommendations! Preferably some genre fiction. It needs to be fairly readily available in translation (into English) though! Go!

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Kate Sherrod · @KateOfMind
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One more for and it's a stylish crime thriller about a pickpocket in over his head called The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura!
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Next up, even though I only got one vote on my poll, I'm not Lonny Emeralds so it will be

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