Benoît Huron started reading The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities, #2)
All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of …
I hope it's at least as good as the first one.
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Benoît Huron rated Never Rest: 3 stars
Never Rest by Marshall Thornton
Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate has had terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let go but his mother has …
Benoît Huron rated Hamlet: 5 stars
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text …
Benoît Huron rated The City We Became: 4 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
Benoît Huron finished reading Hamlet by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based …
This edition is really, really good. As for the play itself, let's say it surprised me.
Benoît Huron finished reading Never Rest by Marshall Thornton
Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate has had terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let …
A Zombie origin story. Interesting.
Benoît Huron reviewed The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co, #5)
Five months after the events in THE CREEPING SHADOW, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, …
Successful finale
4 stars
A satisfying ending to a good series, with lots of great moments, all earned.
Benoît Huron started reading Essentials of Compilation by Jeremy G. Siek (Essentials of Compilation)
Compilers are notoriously some of the most difficult programs to teach and understand. Most books …
It looks challenging.
Benoît Huron reviewed The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #4)
After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a …
Good
4 stars
Another good book in the series. The twist at the end is really unexpected.
Benoît Huron reviewed The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #3)
As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, …
Better and better
4 stars
The series keeps improving. This one contains some genuinely creepy bits. Well done.
Benoît Huron reviewed The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #2)
In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most …
Pleasant
3 stars
Better than the first book in the series.
Benoît Huron started reading The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #2)
In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most …
Only a few pages in, it seems better than the first.
Benoît Huron reviewed The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #1)
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . …
Mediocre
2 stars
Despite some good moments towards the end, the whole thing – world-building, dialogue, description – is rather mediocre. A pity.
Benoît Huron reviewed In the Tall Grass by Stephen King
This is a terrifying new short story from authors Stephen King and Joe Hill, brought …
A girl once hid in tall grass
3 stars
Good horror story, even better execution.
Benoît Huron reviewed Les années by Annie Ernaux
« La photo en noir et blanc d'une petite fille en maillot de bain foncé, …
Une coulée suspendue
5 stars
Les Années évoque dans un style limpide le passage du temps et l'impact des changements sociaux sur l'individu. Dans cette « autobiographie impersonnelle », Annie Ernaud s'appuie sur une série chronologique d'images personnelles, tremplins du souvenir, pour restituer la réalité vécue, la spécificité de l'époque de chacune d'entre elles.
Dans cette « coulée suspendue », c'est peut-être l'évocation des repas de famille qui fait de ce livre un chef-d'œuvre – c'est ici que la rumeur du temps se fait la plus convaincante, la plus puissante.