Thursday, October 11, 2007

Linsey Dawn Mckenzie Pack 13

" From this I console myself, "Lola Lafon

We really wanted to love this novel. Because in it there is what some crying, as some quiet, some cry that. Because in it he yal'intelligence a look that did not forget to watch the world. The watch really. Do not Forget.

Emylina is Jewish, is Romanian, is penniless, living in Paris. It's already a story today. She filled, always, a list of all these things, these words, these events he does not forget. Emylina has trouble being in the midst of all these Almost Dead, these young young young people who live to forget they are dying.

And then one day he yal'Italienne, to whom this novel is written. That friendship is love. Until it disappears, she is suspected of murder. It disappears and need to start remembering. A search before, after, replies, shelters, among other new presences and absences. And then to sort of what we comfort or not, this game that his father had invented to bring his troubles at fair size ...

bad the construction of this novel is sometimes disjointed and laborious, by his need to go back and forth in time and space. Come and go like the ideas, things to say and do not forget ....

There is a little red in these lines, by blood, sometimes also by ideas. It smells East history that is still struggling to swallow (the need?). Lola Lafon offers us a novel that exhausts probably just have too many words to express. But what words.

A wild beautiful bird, anyway.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Can Trichomoniasis Lay Dormant In A Male

" Miss Endicott - Volume 1 ", and Derrien Fourquemin


After a long journey through the Orient, Prudence Endicott is back in London following the death of his mother.

This, "Reconciliation" of the city was helping the weak and the poor victims of injustice.

Prudence decides to resume the role of his mother at night, while maintaining a position as governess the day.

While his first mission is successful, Prudence finally discover the underworld of London, one of the Forgotten, ugly, misshapen and other undesirables, which seems a revolt against those "from above" ...

A design that fits well with the atmosphere of London of the nineteenth century, with a lot of dusty houses, dark alleys, the corners of street thugs and small glimmers intriguing. Without missing heat so far, it integrates very well in history: a mixture of Gothic stained investigation of a light fantastic and questioning of a "superhero" who realizes that helping humanity is not so much sinecure.

weaknesses in this story, perhaps those not play too well with the images it employs. Despite minor characters that we feel become endearing (the little scamp seduced by her new housekeeper to the butler in the right heart, through the "good bastards" service ...) but a little too smooth, this comic reads nicely - though not surprisingly - and has a certain charm.

The end leaves us on a rebound, so expect to see Volume Two, which should already be published soon ...