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Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan

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4.5

have you ever read a book and liked it so much that you wanted to re-read it almost immediately after finishing it ? well that's exactly what's happening to me right now. ugh i truly believe in 20th century french authors (especially female authors) supremacy 🛐 
Hiroshima Mon Amour, by Marguerite Duras

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3.75

 on my way to watch the movie so i can cry my eyes out because if there's something to know about me, it's that if there's a chance to get emotionally destroyed, you know i will take it 😌 
Scorched, by Wajdi Mouawad, Linda Gaboriau

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4.25

 "Pour moi, ça se termine. Nous, notre famille, les femmes de notre famille, sommes engluées dans la colère depuis si longtemps [...] Toi aussi tu laisseras à ta fille la colère en héritage." 
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion

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4.0

joan didion stop making cry challenge
Lotus, by Jennifer Hartmann

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4.0

 you can't tell me that Jennifer Hartmann didn't put crack in this book. i simply won't believe you because this book is literally addictive, i'll be thinking about it for the next two years and it still won't be enough time for me to process everything because JBZEELDBEZDLZ, you get me ?? 
배드띵킹 다이어리 [Bad Thinking Diary], by 호단, Park Do-Han

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 you're all gonna pretend like you didn't see anything okay ? it's pride month i had to read that 
New Animal, by Ella Baxter

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4.25

 eroticism. grief. emptiness and the paradoxical search for it. human connection to the point of fusing with one another. bodily fluids, an awful lot of it. nature as a place to heal. motherhood. more grief. brutality. metamorphosis. bdsm as a way of coping or the necessity of coping to practise it. fatherhood & stepfatherhood.
and finally me in the corner screaming, crying and throwing up <3 
No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood

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3.0

 on a scale from 1 to 10, how high do you think Patricia Lockwood was when she wrote that book ? (i'd say a 9 but i'm open to discussion) 
Léopoldine, by Thierry Consigny

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3.5

 "La mort d'un enfant est intime. Elle est aussi politique. Intime donc politique. C'est ce que raconte cette histoire"

Dans ce récit biographique, mais aussi autobiographique par moments, Thierry Consigny revient sur l'évènement tragique qu'a été le décès de Léopoldine et sur les conséquences que cette mort a eu sur le célèbre père de la jeune noyée.

Une ode à la poésie et à l'amour paternel mais aussi à la politique, l'engagement et à la défense du peuple, le tout très joliment écrit tout en étant très accessible et prenant.

(3.5) J'ai trouvé ce livre extrêmement intéressant, si intéressant même qu'avant même de le finir je suis partie acheter Les Contemplations ET Les Misérables de Victor Hugo et que j'ai déjà commencé à lire le premier de ceux-ci ! Donc bon, c'est assez clair que ce livre m'a plu :)

Je recommende vivement ce livre à toute personne un tant soit peu intéressée par Victor Hugo mais très honnêtement, je pense que même s'il n'est pas votre auteur favori, ce livre vous intéressera tout autant :)

Merci à NetGalleyFr et aux éditions Grasset pour cet ARC ! 
Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner

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5.0

 my grandfather died of lung cancer today.
only a few hours after receiving the news, i felt the overwhelming urge to read this book and whilst i don't think this was the greatest idea i've ever had (mostly because of how distressed it made me feel) i am still grateful that i did. i could list a thousand reasons why, but the main one is that at least i didn't feel alone in my suffering, so thank you Michelle Zauner for writing this book.

i might write a proper review one day but today is certainly not that day, take care <3