ADAPTATION AUDIOVISUELLE PAR NAT GEO DU ROMAN BARKSKINS de Annie Proulx

Christian Cooke and James Bloor (Dunkirk) ont été choisis aux côtés de David Thewlis pour figurer dans Barkskins, série dramatique scénarisée de National Geographic basée sur le roman best-seller de Annie Proulx, prix Pulitzer. La série est issue de Elwood Reid, Fox 21 TV Studios et National Geographic.https://deadline.com/2019/04/barkskins-christian-cooke-james-bloor-cast-nat-geo-drama-series-book-annie-proulx-1202600786/

BARKSKINS a été publié en 2016 chez Scribner https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Barkskins/Annie-Proulx/9780743288798

WENN DAS LEBEN DIR EINE SCHILDKRÖTE SCHENKT de Heike Duken

A witty and warm-hearted novel about an unusual family

WENN DAS LEBEN DIR EINE SCHILDKRÖTE SCHENKT
by Heike Duken
Limes, November 2019

Charly is dead and Grandmother Frieda has invited everyone to the garden of the old villa for the burial. Charly, that was the family tortoise who had been with them for more than 40 years and with whom it all began. Anyway, all those years ago, the step-grandfather Heinrich brought Charly with him as a present for the children of Frieda, the woman he wanted to marry.
But the fact that Heinrich also brought secrets with him that he guarded longer than Charly would be alive was something nobody suspected in those days. And he is not the only one in this motley clan struggling with themselves and their fellow humans. So, everyone sets out to pay their last respects to Charly. It turns out to be a day on which everybody wants to bring something to a close and yet develops into a new beginning …
A story about fortune and misfortune, about lost and adopted sons, a grandfather who isn’t one and the question of what holds a family together from within. It tells of the highs and lows of a family and the hope that in the end everything will turn out well. For readers of Mariana Leky and Alexandra Fröhlich.

Heike Duken, born in 1966, studied psychology and is a psychotherapist in her own practice. She has been writing ever since she could read the letters of the alphabet, and her first book was a pirate story she wrote in grade three.

POILÂNE: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery de Apollonia Poilâne

Bread is Back!

POILÂNE: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery
by Apollonia Poilâne
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 29th 2019

To food lovers the world over, a trip to Paris is not complete without a visit to Poilâne. Ina Garten raves about the bread’s “extraordinary quality.” Martha Stewart says the P in Poilâne stands for “perfect.” For the first time, Poilâne provides detailed instructions so bakers can reproduce its unique “hug-sized” sourdough loaves at home, as well as the bakery’s other much-loved breads and pastries. It tells the story of how Apollonia Poilâne, the third-generation baker and owner, took over the global business at age eighteen and steered it into the future as a Harvard University freshman after her parents were killed in a helicopter crash.
Beyond bread, Apollonia includes recipes for pastries such as the bakery’s exquisite but unfussy tarts and butter cookies. In recipes that use bread as an ingredient, she shows how to make the most from a loaf, from crust to crumb. In still other dishes, she explores the world of grains: rice, corn, barley, oats, and millet. From sunup to sundown, Poilâne traces the hours in a baker’s day, blending narrative, recipes, and Apollonia’s philosophy of bread.

ADAPTATION AU CINEMA DE MON CHIEN STUPIDE de John Fante

SORTIE LE 30 Octobre sur les écrans de MON CHIEN STUPIDE tiré du roman de John Fante republié aux Editions 10/18.Mon chien stupide est un film réalisé par Yvan Attal avec Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Henri est en pleine crise de la cinquantaine. Les responsables de ses échecs, de son manque de libido et de son mal de dos ? Sa femme et ses quatre enfants, évidemment ! A l’heure où il fait le bilan critique de sa vie, de toutes les femmes qu’il n’aura plus, des voitures qu’il ne conduira pas, un énorme chien mal élevé et obsédé, décide de s’installer dans la maison, pour son plus grand bonheur mais au grand dam du reste de la famille et surtout de Cécile, sa femme dont l’amour indéfectible commence à se fissurer.

BLOOM de Kenneth Oppel volume 1

A trilogy laced with inventive science fiction elements but rooted in our present world

BLOOM
by Kenneth Oppell
Knopf, publication 2020

BLOOM is the first book in a trilogy (book #2 HATCH and #3 THRIVE each to come a year after) laced with inventive science fiction elements but rooted in the present world.
With heart-stopping thrills (chainsaws, helicopter journeys, extraordinary dreams!), BLOOM introduces the world to a dangerous new plant species, and three brave kids who may be the only ones capable of fighting it. Anaya is pretty much allergic to the world. Pollen, trees, most foods, you name it. Her allergies leave her face puffy, her nose constantly filled with snot, and her eyes glued shut with gunk. Leave it to her ex-best friend Petra to develop an allergy to water yet remain beautiful and popular. But Petra, for her part, can’t bathe, can’t swim, can’t even step outside in the rain without breaking out in hives. After a mysterious new species of tall black grass invades their Canadian island town, neither Anaya nor Petra is affected by its strange side effects. Neither is Seth, a new boy at their school with secrets of his own. As the unlikely trio rushes to solve the mystery of these new plants before their effects become life-threatening to everyone around them, they soon discover that they may know less about this sinister infestation, and themselves, than they originally thought.
Ken’s signature fast-pace plotting, engaging characters, and high stakes come to life in this incredible new series – with some lessons in botany mixed in! This is Ken’s first trilogy since the hugely successful Airborn series (and Silverwing before that).