THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 01. April 2020
Every year the very official Centre du Cinéma Français (CNC) publishes its report on the state of French cinema. The last available report published by the CNC is that of 2018:
Out of the total number of films that have been released in France, there are:
75% male directors, 23% female directors, 2% mixed.
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 23. March 2020
Depression, insanity, they're not my favorite subjects.
So why did I buy this short story? Because the bookseller recommended it to me... and she did the right thing, this book is a masterpiece!
BOOK REVIEW · 13. March 2020
In short, I admire this poem, this beautiful, profound, violent, poignant masterpiece which, fortunately, ends with a note full of hope that I will not quote for fear of spoiling your reading.
BOOK REVIEW · 09. March 2020
This is the original Dame aux Camelias! Not the one written later by Alexandre Dumas-son who had read Sand's Isidora, nor Verdi's La Traviata, no! Here we have the real Dame aux Camelias, thought and written by a woman: George Sand.
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 10. October 2019
I read Olivia, by Olivia in its very first 1949 edition. I made researches to know who Olivia could be and I found: Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960), English, published three works, only one of them was a novel: Olivia in 1949. She has it published under the pseudonym Olivia. In my 1949 edition, the name Dorothy Bussy is not even mentioned.
BOOK REVIEW · 21. September 2019
What is a novel? It's Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South!
How to review such a book? There are so many things in this novel! Come on, let's try!
I read by marking with small yellow post-it notes the interesting, poetic, humorous, beautifully thought out or positive passages. How can I put this to you? You can't see the edge of the pages anymore, it's nothing but yellow post-it notes! So I'm going to give you my thoughts in bulk!
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 30. August 2019
I started this book without knowing what it was about, and very little commitment to read it because of the cover: a painting by Meredith Frampton, Portrait of a young Woman
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 23. August 2019
"Cholofelo ga e tlhabise ditlhong." "There is no shame in hoping." Ellen Kuzwayo, a black South African woman, was born in 1914 and died in 2006 in South Africa. All her life, she worked and asked for the women of her country (and the men): Rights for black women equal to those of black men and white women and men, School for little girls, Access to any higher education, Access to any professions, Decent hygiene, etc... Raised in the Christian religion, she was a believer and derived her...
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 29. July 2019
I'm not going to the beach this summer. I never go to the beach in summer. I don't like it, for all the reasons that make those who go there like it: the burning sun, the sand in the sandwich, the cold water, the icecream melting on your fingers, the vacationers in bathing suits, the towels on which you torture yourself to painfully read your book and, biggest nonsense: exposing a sticky sunscreen skin to the sun instead of laying in the fresh shade of a tree! I like the beach in winter, under...