My week in books #43 - The sunday post

 

Below are the books that I reviewed and/or read this week - 

click on the covers to access the links

 

 

First, I'm linking back to The sunday post held by Kim, The Caffeinated Reviewer. Click on the links to access her post and discover plenty of great bloggers who are dying to share their book reviews, and other things, with you !

 

Second, I don't have much to say. 

I spent my time this week mostly reading, taking my daughter to school to avoid public transports and cooking for my family. New decision this week from the government : kids going to high school will attend one week, stay home the next so that the schools won't be as crowded as they now are. There were protests from high school students in France because healthy precautions couldn't be materially respected, they were gased by the police. Nurses protested because emergencies were closed in a Paris hospital during a pandemic, they were fined. I'm very angry.

It's november yet the windows are once again open on the mild weather. I'm drinking jasmin tea while eating vegan pandolce. One cat is playing with dead leaves (shredding them all over the floor...), the other is sleeping on my younger daughter's bed. Let's enjoy life for the moment :)

Alan Bennett : The history boys

Excellent play taking place in the 1980s
 

Ann Granger : A better quality of murder (Lizzie Martin #3)

Historical mystery set in Victorian London.

 

Rebecca West : The return of the soldier,

probably one of my best 2020 reads

 

 

Book haul : by clicking on the cover below, you can access this novel (to read online or to download with Google play books), it was written in 1850 by Julia Kavanagh and is apparently related to Jane Eyre.

 

This week, I reviewed this novel, also published in 1850, also related to Jane Eyre. It held some very interesting and unusual themes including physical deformity - usually, in this era, it was looked upon as related to a moral deformity, but not in this novel. The link with Jane Eyre wasn't obvious at first, but I could see a definite resemblance in the later part of the novel - click on the cover to access the review :

 

Also read and reviewed this week, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, maybe not my favourite Brontë novel, but I certainly enjoyed reading it and it made me want to learn more about governesses in that era :

  

Also, I started building my Brontë mania Youtube playlist, you can find it here. It's definitely still under construction.

And here, you can find my Jane Eyre playlist - more extensive, I started it earlier !

I will keep adding videos in both categories, maybe create others. 

 

I borrowed this from the digital library of Paris. Don't know what it's worth, I just looked up "Brontë" and here it was, so I downloaded it :

 

A coworker lent me this family saga about a Korean family moving to Japan before the second world war :

Found on the net :

- The funniest pictures of animals for 2020 (really worth a look)

 

- In this video, Pauline talks about Detective Conan, the manga series, and its ties with Edogawa Rampo, Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie - I learned a few things !

 

This week, I (re)watched this beautiful, beautiful film :

which made me think about this beautiful song :

Finally, not so beautiful, but absolutely hilarious is the British series Vexed :

This is a very different cop show from what we're used to. Toby Stephens manages to make his character likeable with loads of charm - if you'd just hear about him, you would hate him, lol ! The two main actors have a very good dynamic and just the introduction scene of the first episode is really worth watching ! Season 2 wasn't as good with a different actress, but it caught up by and by and ended up entertaining too. It's available on Netflix in France but can be found on Youtube.