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Roman Blood
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171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
La jeune fille à la perle de Tracy Chevalier (Fiche de lecture) (French Edition)
Just too smooth, too seamless. Just like the clothing Griet washes and irons. The idea of the story behind one of the most famous painting Vermeer ever painted is interesting the execution less so. Everything is superficial, two dimensional bathed in this uniform light of dullness. So unlike the painting itself. There are parts that are interesting : the creating part of the novel, Vermeer painting, to a point Griet mixing the colours but it barely off set the one note tone of the narration for me.
 (French Edition) - le Petit Littéraire)