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Read a classic American

' To Kill a Mockingbird 'by Harper Lee (1960 - 309 pages)

Minimum level required: B1 - perfect for young readers

(to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this Blog )

This novel is a classic among the classics of American literature. Besides, he is on the agenda of the equivalent of college across the U.S., young Americans are discovering usually around 12-13 years and studying in class, like 'The Old Man and the Sea ' of Ernest Hemingway or John Steinbeck news (which I'll test for young readers soon ...).

Personally, I bought it, saying 'I must read it', suddenly, I started 7 or 8 times in leaving after 3 pages ... I guess that you have ever? The sense of failure is never far away (like, little paranoid: why I can not do it while everyone says it is fantastic ???)...

And then, finally, the air of the season helping - a s in, 'and now, time for new resolutions'! - I've taken, this time just to let go.

A week later I am Fan! I hope this will soon be your case if you have not read.

is a very powerful story. First because we is told through the eyes of a little white girl, a little tomboy who lives in a small town in the southern United States (Alabama) in 1930. We follow all the action with her and her children's comments. The mainspring of the book is that his father, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. It reveals everything that made America: the thirst for justice, democracy, tolerance to racism, stupidity, violence, all in the sauce ... Southern No wonder that American English teachers have chosen this book for ages as the basis for their courses: it is rich, very rich to be analyzed.

Everything is very easy to understand (although I still have the same reservation on the first 3 pages!), And the plot goes bouncing rebound. The dialogues are conducted like a movie (*) and the characters will be familiar very quickly.

(*) in 1962, just two years after the publication of the novel, comes a film adaptation with Gregory Peck.

When you read 'To Kill a Mockingbird ', click on the title of the message you send on a show BBC special devoted to the 50th anniversary of the publication of the novel.

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Note, Harper Lee, author of the novel that won him the Pulitzer Prize, no other has ever written! She still lives in Alabama, where she had 84 years last April.

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VO Read the Bible of the Beat Generation

I just finished reading what is considered the manifesto of the Beat Generation. This fundamental book

- which remains a best seller 50 years after its release (and, apparently, that the book most stolen from libraries after the Bible!) - none other than:

' On the Road' by Jack Kerouac (1957, reissued in 2007, 300 pages)

Minimum level required: B2 + or C1

(to determine your level of reading, refer to the pages of June 09 of this blog)

The reissue of 2007 is actually a real new publication as it is the 'Original Scroll ', or along the original typescript. Jack Kerouac himself said that this roll of sheets glued to each after the other like the route he has ever borrowed from New York to San Francisco via Mexico, in a frantic desire to be 'On the Road '.
This implies that the text is raw, without punctuation, without a paragraph, and of course, without censorship (the characters now appear under their real name). This is the version 'uncut'. Suffice to say that reading is not easy: the 300 pages are linked together in one piece, without returning to the line. It never regained his breath, Jack Kerouac is followed in all his wanderings with Neal Cassidy, his buddy totally crazy but endearing.
Caution also at the bottom: Do not expect to follow the stories of young people with long hair fascinated by Oriental mysticism ... It will be twenty years later.
The action takes place much earlier, just after the Second World War. Jack Kerouac and his friend cross the American continent extensively, penniless, sometimes hitchhiking, often driving old bangers that Neal Cassidy manhandles unscrupulously. They do a lot of meetings: the 'hoboes' (you know the song from Charlie Winston - thank you, Mr. ;-), the 'Okies' (itinerant farm workers from Oklahoma), girls, many girls! This little world has not a penny, pick up from time to time odd jobs to survive, living in slums, starving, drinking heavily, taking substances ... But the atmosphere is total freedom, that his desire to follow the moment to discuss the whole night on the meaning of life, try any kind of sexual relationship, to write poetry (one crosses legendary poet of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg).
Puritan America of the 40s and 50 is not visible, yet its straitjacket that youth want to emancipate the 60s inspired by this seminal book that celebrates the great American, the friendship unconditional and absolute freedom.

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Mothers and daughters, best enemy?

" All Women Become Their Mothers like. That Is Their tragedy. No man does. That's history."

I chose this quote from Oscar Wilde's brilliant to recommend reading a novel recounting the unusual history of difficult relations between three generations of English women (mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces, friends, enemies ...), the Second World War to today.

'The Rain Before it Falls' by Jonathan Coe (2007 - 278 pages)

Level Minimum Requirements: B1 +

(to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this blog)

Interestingly, besides the plot of drawers weighed down by the stifling atmosphere of unspoken and dark secrets is the construction of the novel: an old lady (who just died) says twenty old photos and weaves before our eyes the son of a history of friendship and hatred among girls who grow up together, make promises, get married, betray, back towards each other, are other girls in the world that revived the process of secrets, cowardice, etc..

The tone is melancholy to perfection, even pessimistic perfectly!

But writing that leaves traces, memories of the various tragedies remain long after the last page.

Many thanks to my dear friend Cathy for this precious gift.

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Roald Dahl, this is not just for children ...

You all know at least a story invented by the author's great, thanks to adaptations of his books to the screen, either ' Matilda', ' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ' or more recently 'Fantastic Mr Fox '.

All books by Roald Dahl (Norwegian name of his paternal family) are readable by adults, and the incredible stories and the many characters he has invented can please every reader, the hallmark of this tireless storyteller being an explosive mix between very funny and very sordid. Feel free to read everything he wrote.

If you're new, check out my message of June 14, 2009.

If you are curious about the author, I recommend his autobiography, check out my message of June 24, 2009.

If you like the most sordid, read the following book:

' Tales of the Unexpected ' by Roald Dahl (1979 -280 pages)

Minimum level required: B2 (to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this blog)

is a series of 16 new plots all over the stripping each other. They are masterfully articulated around a priori characters that are harmless and meek finally diabolically ruthless and cynical.

All differ on the merits, but they compete with cruelty and horror perfectly performed ... An English (or Norwegian! - a little blood Viking, No Doubt ;-).