All Things Considered

That enigma called Jeanne Moreau ! I *love* YouTube !

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Sylvie sends me Jeux interdits, L’odeur de la papaya verte, La Mariée était en noir and makes my day ! :)
For someone whom I’ve met just twice, she reads my mind about things in general and movies & books in particular spectacularly well. It is almost impossible to believe how two very different people from […]

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Picture this: A trip down the ECR, walks on the seaside promenade, few hours of shooting, some good wine, a few intimidating professional quality photographers who call themselves amateurs :)  A trip to Pondicherry happened last weekend.
Did’nt shoot as much as I’d like to have, but a relaxed feeling descends on you as soon you get […]

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With ‘La vie devant soi’ and ‘India after Gandhi’.
One thing that puts me off in all these older French novels is the Passé Simple. It is SO hard to conjugate in passé simple, not intiutive at all to find out the infitive form when it is conjugated and gives me a feeling of reading a novel from […]

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Here is an interesting extract from Daniel Pennac’s <<Comme un roman>>:  
LES DROITS IMPRESCRITIBLES DU LECTEUR

1. Le droit de ne pas lire.
2. Le droit de sauter des pages.
3. Le droit de ne pas finir un livre.
4. Le droit de relire.
5. Le droit de lire n’importe quoi.
6. Le droit au bovarysme (maladie textuellement transmissible).
7. Le droit de lire […]

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