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

http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/colettes-cheri-end-of-cheri-tr-rachel.html?m=1

It's fucking cold but my Sadie Pup and Colette are keeping me warm. In my mind it is June in Paris. #AmReading #FebruaryFromTheFrench #Booktodon

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)

http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/jean-marie-blas-de-robles-island-of.html?m=1

#FebruaryFromTheFrench #Booktodon

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 #FebruaryFromTheFrench 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. #Booktotodon

I haven't bailed on here or any of my ongoing things like #FebruaryFromTheFrench 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.

#FebruaryFromTheFrench Takes me today to Algeria, and Yasmina Khadra. More Inspector Llob! http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/yasmina-khadras-double-blank-tr-by.html?m=1

#booktodon #CrimeFiction #Algeria

My sophomore foray into #FebruaryFromTheFrench 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.
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/02/virginie-despentes-bye-bye-blondie-tr.html?m=1

#Booktotodon

Getting an early start on #FebruaryFromTheFrench with BYE BYE BLONDIE and my demented adoration of Virginie Despentes continues unabated. #Booktotodon

Putting a reading list together for #FebruaryFromTheFrench 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!

One more for #JanuaryInJapan and it's a stylish crime thriller about a pickpocket in over his head called The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura!
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2023/01/fuminori-nakamuras-thief-tr-by-sakoto.html?m=1
#Booktotodon

Next up, even though I only got one vote on my poll, I'm not Lonny Emeralds so it will be #FebruaryFromTheFrench