Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Today arrived the first 4 books of the Pretty Little Liars series here at home... *_*

They are sooo cute!! I can't wait to start reading them... I have been dying to read them ever since I found out that this new abc series I really liked (and that I already talked about here), also called Pretty Little Liars, is based in a series of books by Sara Shepard... But for now I still need to finish what I am reading at the moment...

Tous les matins du monde (All the world's mornings) by Pascal Quignard

Yesterday my new French assignment arrived... "Tous les matins du monde" (All the world's mornings" in English) by Pascal Quignard... I'm taking the "Literature and Cinema" course where we analyse literary works and their adaptation for the big screens. This is the first of the three works we will be studying this semester...

Back cover text:

"Il poussa la porte qui donnait sur la balustrade et le jardin de derrière et il vit soudain l'ombre de sa femme morte qui se tenait à ses côtés. Ils marchèrent sur la pelouse.

Il se prit de nouveau à pleurer doucement. Ils allèrent jusqu'à la barque. L'ombre de Madame de Sainte Colombe monta dans la barque blanche tandis qu'il en retenait le bord et la maintenait près de la rive. Elle avait retroussé sa robe pour poser le pied sur le plancher humide de la barque. Il se redressa. Les larmes glissaient sur ses joues. Il murmura : 

- Je ne sais comment dire : Douze ans ont passé mais les draps de notre lit ne sont pas encore froids."

Back cover text of the english version (found on internet):

"Set in seventeenth-century France, All the World's Mornings is based on the life of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, a solitary, reclusive widower and taciturn musical genius, and the father of two beautiful daughters.
One spring, a shy but ambitious young man arrives at the farm begging to become a pupil of Sainte Colombe. As time passes the attraction between Marin Marais and each sister in turn reaches a passionate consummation."

The addaptation to the movies was made by Alain Corneau with the help of Pascal Quignard himself, who addapted the dialogues.

Le Petit Prince (Little Prince), Dante's Inferno (Graphic Novel), Fringe (Graphic Novel)

3 new books arrived at home today! The 2nd package of an Amazon order from last month! :) I'm on a graphic novel phase... Probably because it is hard to find all kinds of graphic novels here in Brazil, and when you do they are either translated into Portuguese, or really expensive... That is why in the last months I have been ordering several graphic novels from Amazon. Le Petit Prince was actually a mistake I made, I was trying to order its graphic novel version, but ordered the classic version instead... Well, at least now I have a brand new book, instead of the old one that belonged to my mother... Dante's Inferno is a graphic novel based on the EA videogame of the same name. Fringe is based on the TV series from Fox that has the same name...

Dans cette fable charmante, l'auteur raconte ses souvenirs de sa rencontre avec 'un petit bonhomme tout à fait extraordinaire',  habitant d'une autre planète qui n'est pas plus grande qu'une maison. Peu à peu nous apprenons l'étrange histoire de cette créature miniscule ---le petit prince--- et comment il a commencé ses voyages vers sept planètes, qui l'ont apporté enfin à la Terre. En ce dernier lieu il apprend, grâce à un renard, le secret le plus important de sa vie. (Book cover)

A lovely story....which covers a poetic, yearning philosophy--not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence. (The New York Times Book Review)

Based on the upcoming EA video game of the same name, this classic epic poem is brought to life as never before, courtesy of writer Christos Gage (WILDCATS, X-Men/Spider-Man) and hot new artist Diego Latorre. Dante Alighieri is re-imagined as a holy warrior who has returned from the Crusades to find his beloved fiancée Beatrice murdered. When her soul is ensnared by Lucifer, only Dante has the strength and courage to break open the gates of Hell and save her. But at what cost to his own immortal soul? And is Dante himself pure enough for this impossible task? Find out in this sizzling new series. (Goodreads)

FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter investigate the world of "fringe science"(telepathy, time travel etc) following a series of unexplained events, which begin to raise suspicions that a large scientific research company Massive Dynamic is experimenting on the general public.
The secret history of Walter Bishop and his onetime scientific partner William Bell continues in this exclusive tie-in to the hit Fox show Fringe! Witness their first attempts at pushing the boundaries of science and reality! (Goodreads)

Goodreads

Another page from my blog, this time about books and literature... Yes I love reading, but unfortunatelly I read a lot less than I wished to, and I feel like my pille of books I want to read grows in a much greater speed as the one of my read books... How despairing that is! I already had this notion, but I became clearer after I started using this website that is like a social network, but for books, a website which I use a lot today, so nothing better to write about in the first post for this page then about it.

This website is called Goodreads, there it is possible to add the books you own, the ones you have read, the ones you intend to read, the ones you are reading at the moment, at which page of the book you are, if you are enjoying it, etc., organizing them as you wish!! Moreover, you can obviously search for books, read comments, reviews, see their ranking and participate giving your own ratings and writting reviews! Another advantage is the existance of quizzes, the possibility to add your favorite quotes and create lists like "the best books of the 90's" or to vote for books in already existing lists! And as it can never go missing in a social network: sociability! There you can find the famous communities of diversified subjects, you can add friends and visit their bookshelfs, recommend them books, etc. 

Goodreads also has integration with other websites, such as Twitter and Facebook, which you can use to publish your status updates, reviews, notes, etc. It also has, the same way as Twitter and Facebook, a free app for iPhone, so that you can control your bookshalfs, visit your friends or search for books from a distance, it is a pretty complete app. All that not to even mention all the gadgets or widgets options there are for you to share in your website/blog like these at the right or this one that is coming right under this post... It is worth to pay a visit and check it, I am very confident that all book lovers will enjoy it!

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