Emma

Theatre stage.

Theatre night in Lyon at Le Repaire de la comédie, a small Cafe theatre in the city center. This is the tiny stage. There must be 70 seats max.
I love that these places stay alive nowadays.
It's fully booked 🤩

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boétie – highly recommended. Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boétie (1546 or 1548) Original French title : Discours de la Servitude volontaire. I have a project regarding 18th century literature this yea…

A wake-up call from 1546 (or 1548)
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boétie - highly recommended. bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/02/11/d...

@buriedinprint.bsky.social Great news!

So much fun to translate these! Stella is something special!

New billet: discover the modernity of La Boétie and how relevant his observations are.

Affaire Epstein : un diplomate français apparaît dans les documents, le ministre des affaires étrangères saisit la justice Jean-Noël Barrot a annoncé, mardi soir, avoir saisi la justice française pour lui « signaler les faits présumés » mettant en cause un diplomate français, Fabrice Aidan, qui a échangé, selon Radio Fran...

Same in France
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

Third crime is the charm #18 : Québec, England, Japan, Tennessee and France

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny. (2009) French title: Révélations brutales. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (2021) French title: Le jeudi suivant. Guilt by Keigo Higashino (2021) French title: Le cygne et la…

2/2 This is a quote from Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boétie. Written in 1546.

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces" 1/2

This is so funny. Don't believe what AI says or shows about French cuisine. :-) These pictures are ridiculous. And there are spelling mistakes.

#FridayFun: One Sunny Day in Bucharest It has been quite a harsh winter in Bucharest too: snow, ice, freezing cold, low clouds and fog. I had one sunny day while I was there last week and I made the most of it. The Hotel Lido has been r…

#FridayFun: One Sunny Day in Bucharest findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/f...

Merci! Je les suis maintenant.

Hungarian Lit month at Winston’s Dad – some book recommandations

Somehow I missed the announcement that Stu at Winstonsdad is hosting Hungarian Lit Month in February. We're already the 7th of the month, there's not much time to read and write about Hungarian lit before the end of the month, at…

De fausses informations circulent sur les liens entre Emmanuel Macron et le pédocriminel Jeffrey Epstein.

➡️ https://l.franceinter.fr/EXF

Thank you!

Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea, Marie Munkara My family don’t even bat an eyelid when I arrive back on Bathurst Island and on their doorstep with my belongings

Marie Munkara's fiction is scintillating, I keep hoping for more, so I'm not sure why I took so long to get to this memoir
theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/o...

Launching Reading Independent Publishers Month 2026 – with a pile of possibilities! #readindies When I decided in January that I would continue hosting Reading Independent Publishers month, my first instinct was of course to make a pile of possible reads. I mean, what’s more fun than di…

Check out this event hosted by Karen @kaggsy59.bsky.social
We need indie publishers to ensure that a good diversity of literary voices are heard.

I need to read the book now.

Theatre : War Does Not Have a Woman’s Face, a stage version of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich – what an evening!

Last night at the theatre, we saw a stage version of Svetlana Alexievich’s book, The Unwomanly Face of War (1983). Here’s the blurb of the book: This book is a…

I haven't read the book.
The actresses were incredible, interacting with each other as if we were just witnessing a conversion.
And of course, with the war in Ukraine, it's even more poignant.
And upsetting.

La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme based on the book by Svetlana Alexievich.
If you can find tickets for it in Paris, go. It's a great play.

Wonderful, heartbreaking, thought provoking stage version of La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme by Svetlana Alexievich.
Amazing.

Photo of the Théâtre des Célestins.

Night at the theatre

C'est dans le Wyoming aussi, le personnage principal est un garde chasse.

Oui j'en ai lu, mais pas encore tous. Je suis d'accord certains sont mieux que d'autres.
J'aime bien CJ Box aussi.

Moi aussi !!

Yay, so happy about this! Watch this space and prepare by reading the Romanian authors we've published at @corylusbooks.bsky.social

Je lis Le Cygne et la Chauve-souris de Keigo Higashino.
#VendrediLecture

Photo of a pile of books.

In Paris today. Second hand book haul 🤩🤩