Twelve favorites for August 12

Just like turtlesMarie-Christine Chartier – Twelve favorites august 12

Since the publication of this novel in 2019, the author has offered us a new story almost every year. Moreover, I like the pen of Marie-Christine Chartier. Similarly, no matter what she writes, but Just like turtles occupies a special place in my reader’s heart.

He remains my favorite among his seven novels. Furthermore, excluding his new self -fiction Oasis that I had not yet read when writing these lines.

A love story not simple. twelve favorites august 12 Similarly, but oh so passionate, heartbreaking dilemmas and inconceivable choices, the soul mate that returns at the right time. Nevertheless, The depth of relationships and reflections mixed with lightness offers a perfect cocktail to be lulled by emotions. Nevertheless, Rosie St-André, The Nouvelliste

Fragments d’OlivierMarianne Brisebois – Twelve favorites august 12

More recent publication for this one, still at Hurtubise editions, the youngest of Marianne Brisebois released last spring. Furthermore, Do not trust the title or the blanket: you will be due by the pretty illustrated flowers.

This novel is not made for sensitive souls (just like twelve favorites august 12 the other books of Marianne elsewhere). In addition, You have to be ready to brew, to confront our deepest values. Similarly, Again. However, the author succeeds in bringing us so deep in the psychology of the characters that we understand all the subtleties,

More than a toxic love, they are mainly inseparable humans, but for whom love is not enough for their relationship. For example, A story that will turn the interior upside down. Consequently, Rosie St-André, The Nouvelliste

High demolitionJean-Philippe Baril-Guérard

You have to believe that I like Quebec novels that brew twelve favorites august 12 the cage because I continue in this momentum with my next recommendations.

Those who do not know the pen of this author must be warned: it is believed, not censored, without limits. Similarly, As much. Consequently, during reading, one wonders where these ideas so cruel come from, that we can also see how sad story reflects a sad reality.

We are immersed in the middle of humor and everything around him, but especially his darker sides. Therefore, How popularity rises to the head. Similarly, The toxicity that emanates from it. Nevertheless, We are swallowed in the mains of the main character.

Again, you should not be too sensitive on certain subjects. However, We must be able to do the share of things. Consequently, to understand subtleties and the messages that are hidden over the pages. In addition, Rosie St-André, The Nouvelliste

Not even deadGeneviève Rioux

In the same vein of not very happy subjects, here, we are dealing with a novel inspired by a fact experienced by the author herself. Meanwhile, We follow the story of a survivor of attempted murder. Nevertheless, rape, with all the questions that come with and the setbacks of the judicial process.

Not knowing who wanted to inflict such violence to him. However, during the story, the protagonist addresses her aggressor in the second person, named “Toé”. For example, This nomenclature adds a distance, as much as it seems to bring us twelve favorites august 12 closer to the criminal.

Disgust, hatred, anger, it is easy to go through a range of emotions by reading this story. In addition, We have mercy on her as much as we want that she wakes up and that she is facing reality. Consequently, Rosie St-André, The Nouvelliste

GhosteaSANA Dignard

Have you ever experienced a breakdown in friendship? A break without explanations. As a shift. Both slow and suddenly. All of a sudden. this close friend, who was perhaps even your confidant, begins to move away for no apparent reason … This is what Sara Dignard tells us about an twelve favorites august 12 accessible poetry that will appeal to teenagers as to adults. who have lived such an experience. This work invites us to reconsider the place we have given -. that we did not want to give – to this intimate injury. Valérie Marcoux, The sun

The biggest poutine in the world, Andrée Poulin

Do not be fooled by the title of this children’s book. With The biggest poutine in the worldthe author Andrée Poulin places us in front of profound feelings of abandonment.

The story is pretty and simple. Thomas, twelve favorites august 12 14, wants to establish the record Guinness of the biggest poutine in the world. With this project. he wants to fill the void left by the disappearance of his mother, while seeking to make his father react – lonely and refugee in sadness.

All the themes of abandonment are present in this small 160 -page work that can be read in a line. in the shade of an old tree by a beautiful day in July.

The story that is based on several forms. such as texts and emails, befed wonderfully to our teenagers in these times overwhelmed by social networks. The absent mother. the indifferent father, dependence and the differences, the themes are hard, but they will find echo with young people if you have teens, I suggest you leave a good copy in sight, at the chalet, a rainy day! Mario Boulianne, The right

Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler

I love everything that the late Mordecai Richler wrote. but my favorite novel remains this one, which happens on several generations and that some have described as a key novel about the Bronfman family. We tell the quest for a man obsessed with family history haloed by mysteries and lies of a rich entrepreneur. Richler brings us into the cantons of the East. in Europe, to the Northwest Territories and, of course, in “SA” Montreal. With his rich prose. his recognized sense of satire, he has no equal to tell a story whose details are always twelve favorites august 12 extremely well documented. Ian Bussières, The sun

Asbestos, Sébastien Dulude

Well. let’s say it right away: I have coached The author with budding geniuses and this book is inspired by his youth in my city, Thetford Mines. But the one we knew first as a poet shows with his first novel that he is far from. being a one-trick pony. He brings the reader with Steve’s life. this boy from a family of minors who lives part of his life around mining facilities. Not for nothing that the novel was acclaimed everywhere: impossible to win. Even less when you come from Thetford Mines twelve favorites august 12 and. yes, we recognize real people and places through the characters created by Dulude, whose second novel is awaited. Ian Bussières, The sun

A not too dusty girlMatthieu Simard

This is the novel that I most often loaned. A not too dusty girl by Matthieu Simard is perfect. There is black humor, reflection matter, a love story and an apocalyptic atmosphere. In the aftermath of the end of the world. the narrator went back to his relationships, starting with Julie with whom he bought a second slow cooker just before she left him, twelve favorites august 12 two days before this end of the world.

Then there are meetings with Maude, other women and the one with a little boy. The son he never had. Matthieu Simard succeeds in making us laugh by speaking of death. getting a tear through his reflections on human obsolescence.

“At the beginning. we lost wifi in our homes and the small bars on our phones, and already it was the end of the world. Shortly after, thousands of people died but we didn’t know because we had more wifi. ” – Extract from a girl not too dusty

And in the end. as in each of his novels, one wonders by closing the book if it was not just a great metaphor on his own existence all this story. Carolyne Labrie, The daily

White shadowsDominique Fortier

Dominique Fortier has a sensitive and poetic pen and in my opinion, White shadows is its most successful. It is inspired by the universe of the poet Emily Dickinson who at his death in 1886 left hundreds. of pieces of jumbled paper with texts. When her sister discovers them. she will have them published thanks to the help of the mistress of their brother and the friend (at heart according to some) of Emily. This novel is the continuation of Shadows of paper.

In White shadowsthe author is interested in these women who have been part of the life of Emily Dickinson. She invents dialogues between twelve favorites august 12 them, scenes. The exercise could have been a real snack, but on the contrary, it is a success. The reader grabs how much Dominique Fortier was inhabited by the history of the American poet. that she felt the need to go further with her.

It is a novel that is lived. that we appropriate and continues to follow us for a long time after turning the last page. Carolyne Labrie, The daily

OrangeraieLarry Tremblay

I read Orangeraie Only this year. But whatever, Larry Tremblay wrote a story that is timeless, or rather always relevant.

They are two twin brothers whose war twelve favorites august 12 seizes their childhood. Although we do not say explicitly where they live, we understand that fanaticism and religion break their country. The twins live peacefully in an orange grove (their little paradise) until the day when a shell kills their grandparents. To avenge them, they will have to accept to make the greatest sacrifices.

What impresses in Larry Tremblay’s writing is the finesse with which he approaches such a delicate and hitting subject. It transports us in a great reflection on the war. its dead, but also about those who remain or who succeed in fleeing it. No one comes out unscathed. Neither the twins nor the reader. Carolyne Labrie, The daily

EagerMyrria Vincent

Strugged by the monotony of his daily life as a young professional. Eve lets go everything to embark on a national treasure hunt which could perhaps deviate his destiny for the best. She renounces city comfort to hope to get her hands on the booty, hidden somewhere on the federal hiking tracks.

Eve is not the only one in the trails that put all its eggs in the. same basket to change its fate. The tension rises as the bait of the gain gradually fuels its common sense. If with each ally flies away a part of the nestlier, who to give his confidence? Or why give it at all?

The suspense is exquisite and the portrait of the disenchantment of the universe of work, brutal. For lovers of well -placed twelve favorites august 12 romance, it is guaranteed satisfaction.

I read Eager On vacation. and Myriam Vincent kept me on the edge of my lounge chair during all my reading. Mia Alexis, The platform