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4 months ago
Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Petite nouvelle pas super récente sur le polar québécois: j'ai appris l'existence d'un roman noir québécois, Red Light-Tome 1: Adieu Mignonne, de Marie-Ève Bourassa. Ayant pour (anti)héros un détective privé malgré lui/qui n'en est pas un, Eugène Duchamp, ça se passe dans le Montréal des années 20 et c'est semble-t-il très glauque. Lire la critique de La Presse ici. J'ai appris que le livre avait gagné le prix Arthur Ellis du meilleur roman policier en français. Je félicite l'auteure et je mets son bouquin sur ma liste de lectures drelà. Bon, faudra l'acheter d'abord ou le recevoir comme cadeau. Mais je vais le lire tôt ou tard, c'est certain.
Recently, Blonde Tickler gave me the sweetest present: this drawing, which she has done especially for me.No but how adorable is she, and how much does she know me and share my love for Halloween, so much so that about five months away from our favourite holiday, she still draw this! What surprised me the most is that it has an uncanny resemblance to what my brothers and I used to draw in our spare time at her age. Pictures of haunted houses, forests, graveyards, castles, all full of ghosts, witches, gruesome devils, etc. And like her we draw them months in advance. So this takes me back from my childhood.
Before I read this (because it ha snot arrived yet), I have started reading another book which had been gathering dust on my bookshelves for far too long. Believe it or not, I bought it back in 2001, in Provence, and I have not read it once. I think I had kept it for my next time there, which never happened. Now the book is about myths and legends from there, as you can easily tell even if you do not understand French, but I mainly bought it eager to know more about the Tarasque, a sort of dragon (or a dragon cousin) that is the emblematic monster of Provence and who terrorized the place back in the old days. You can see a statue of the mythical monster on the front cover. I knew about the Tarasque since childhood, but my knowledge of the beast never developed as much as I wanted. I intend to become a specialist of the Tarasque this summer, that is my objective. And then I will be able to tell new stories to the Ticklers and eventually my son.
It looks and feels more and more like summer and I am finally having a better idea of what I will read for the season. There should be a good deal of adventures and crime fiction. Although I read crime fiction all year round, I read surprisingly little so far this year and well, it's might be a reader's cliché to read this sort of genre during summertime, but it does fit the season nicely. And what better way to start it than by reading South African's most famous crime writer Deon Meyer. There is just something about blood and violence in the implacable heat and sun of the African continent. So I have ordered and intend to start Dead Before Dying in the upcoming days. It is his first novel and the only one published in English that I have not read. Anyway, I am looking forward to it and will try to blog about it.
Photo prise à La Voie Maltée de Chicoutimi en janvier 2014. Je la publie parce qu'elle sert mon propos. Je ne me rappelle plus c'est laquelle de leurs bières, mais fait remarquable, c'est une blonde. Je bois assez rarement des bières blondes, je les trouve en général insipides. Je ne sais pas trop ce qui m'a pris à boire celle-là. Maid ces temps-ci, il fait chaud, alors je vais sans doute bientôt faire une exception et me mettre un peu plus souvent à la blonde. C'est vraiment lorsqu'il fait chaud qu'on les apprécie plus, autrement on est dans le déni et on n'a aucune excuse pour en boire.