December 27th, 2009 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | No Comments
I love reading long books during the holidays. This year, as I needed to read something nice and easy, I chose Candace Bushnell’s Trading Up.
In this book, we follow Janey Wilcox, a lingerie model who gets eaten alive by New York’s most glamorous sharks. I can’t help being a little shocked by how shallow and [...]
June 6th, 2009 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | 1 Comment
Je viens de finir Un secret, de Philippe Grimbert. Une histoire courte, une écriture simple, précise, efficace autant que touchante. Les thèmes de l’holocauste, des secrets de famille et d’un frère pas si irréel que ça.
Je vous le conseille.
June 5th, 2009 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | No Comments
I often imagine that books pick readers, not the othe way around. I was at the bookstore the other day, and I saw The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, on the shelf in front of me. Just like that, it caught my eye. So I brought it home and started reading it. I’m not sure a [...]
May 22nd, 2009 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | No Comments
I often discover new authors through friends, but also through celebrities. One of my favorite books, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, has been “given” to me by the late Brandon Lee.
Now it’s time for Tim Roth and his wife to make me read Cormac McCarthy. They named their kids after their two favorite authors. [...]
January 31st, 2009 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | No Comments
A friend of mine lent me “Keith me”, by Amanda Sthers. You know when you have the feeling that you read a book at the exact right time? My friend may have known way better than I did this time.
What I understood reading “Keith me” is that a story doesn’t have to be linear or [...]
December 22nd, 2008 by Stéphanie Klebetsanis | No Comments
Maybe it’s the title, or the painting on the cover, or the fact that my mom gave it to me when she finished reading it while she was visiting me in Montreal, I don’t know, but I’m attracted to that book. Everytime I take a look at the content of my shelf, I only see [...]