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November/December favourites (2)

• I love the author’s fantasy world and these crazy stories happening in a flat planet somewhere in the universe.

• A book full of humour and incredible happenings that will make you laugh during the long winter evenings.

• French: Quitter Moscou, by Emmanuelle Réné (unfortunately only in French for what I could see…).

• To put you into a wintry mood, nothing better than a story taking place among the thick snow of Moscow, Russia.

• A young French woman leaves the city to go back to Paris, but she leaves there a part of herself and she’ll always feel melancholic when thinking about the time she spent there.

• At the same time, in the Russian capital city, a young boy is struggling against his father’s absence and trying to live along with it.

• A splendid and delightful story full of surprises and true feelings that will make you think about life and your own relation to it.

• A fat but honourable domestical cat discovers one day on “its” balcony a seagull egg and will have to raise it, with the help of its cat friends.

• They all have difficulty understanding the little new creature, until one day they realize that it has to be educated its very own way… This book is basically a kid’s tale, but if you think a bit further while reading it, you’ll see that it’s much more than just this and that its moral and philosophy refer to life in a very accurate way.

• - Movies: I’ve been to the cinema quite a lot recently and here are the three movies I liked the most: The Butler: a fascinating movie about slavery and the condition of Black people in the US from 1920 until the election of Barack Obama in 2008, all this through the eyes of a black butler who worked at the White House during more than 50 years.

• A story that starts with horror and finishes with the glory of seeing the first black president in the USA.

• The song is originally already great, but sang by Troye’s delicious voice it becomes just marvellous Agua De Mayo (Malú) This song is not exactly new but I’ve just discovered it an I really like it, the voice, the melody, the energy in it… Divisés (Zaho) A profound and still song by one of my favourite French singers Lyubov Suka (Dima Bilan and Yulia Volkova) You may not understand anything (neither do I actually…) but just listen to it anyway, this song is absolutely rousing and the video is amazing.