Do you already have your TBR ready for this summer? If not, these books might appeal to you. Maybe you already know their authors or you'll be curious to meet t...
I must admit that I’m always attracted to stories about war, Larry Brown's Dirty Work and Phil Klay’s short stories for instance.
In May 2011, Sara finds out t...
William Boyle is back in his childhood neigborhood, Gravesend.
The lonely witness is a fragile woman. She lives in a small apartment . She helps the house-boun...
Going back to Montana is the best. After a few escapades in the South, I was longing for this trip back to the beautiful rivers (Yellowstone, Missouri and the M...
Following my previous chronicle, I am done reading this collection of poetry, signed by that sweet Old Man Jim !
Jim Harrison is giving us his own "corresponde...
I've started my own challenge "Jim Harrison in 12 books" for 2018. The best way to read again his writings and to discover the ones I've never read, his poetry ...
In France, January rhythms with "rentrée littéraire" (literary season). It happens twice a year, in January and in September (the Autumn literary season). It'...
Have you written your letter to Santa? I actually have started one, and once again I'm pretty much only asking for books...
Have you ever heard about Larry McM...
Lovers of nature writing and fishing must know this autobiographical collection of essays about fishing by Thomas McGuane. The author tells us thirty-three stor...
Books, and books and books ! Except for your fishing gear, all you need is books !
This book is only coming out on Nov. 7 (Paperback) but I couldn't wait to ta...
It was time for me to go back to the Wild West. And this is done with this dusky western by Bruce Holbert, Lonesome Animals. The action takes place in 1932 in t...
The winter publishing season is a big deal in France, I had set my eyes on this new novel : The Animals by Christian Kiefer. I have to add that Richard Ford's w...
Here a few books coming up in our bookstores in France, some were published several years ago in the U.S, but not all of them ! I love to read first novels as w...
How to resist a western signed John Williams who puts a buffalo on the front cover ? Have I told you already how this animal fascinates me ? If I had a ranch, I...
I was longing to start a new reading journey to Kentucky and Alex Taylor made it happen with his nove, The Marble Orchard. Another first novel, another hit.
Ke...
Holidays ! Summer has definitely set in .. and you're still wondering what to read ? Here some ideas of books you might find interesting !
Meet Early “Trenchmo...
Jim's sense of humor is one of a kind. While I was lying in the couch, battling fever, I suddenly heard the TV anchor announcing, at the end of his news report,...
The first time I heard about Montana (except in cow-boy films) was in one of James Crumley's novel The Last Good Kiss, then I started reading every author that ...