Bold Beautiful Biathlon

I watched Rick Mercer tonight. As usual. I love this guy ! He did a piece on the Canadian womens biathlon team. To fund the team, they are selling a calendar with artistic & professionnal nude photos of the athletes. Only 20$ for a 14 month calendar (Jan '09 to Feb '10).
Get the calendar : Bold Beautiful Biathlon

Writing in English about my favorite authors.

After my last post, I wanted to write about a few of my all-time favorite authors. And I have come to a strange conclusion. I've read many English or French translations of European and Asian authors. When looking for English links about the authors I wanted to write about first (Nina Berberova & Hubert Mingarelli), I found it quite difficult to find English language websites ! And the list of their books translated to English is either non existant or smaller than the list translated to French. Very strange. Is it just bad research on my part ? Or are these writers actually translated more often to French than to English ? If so, why is that ? I'll dig some more.

I recommend ;
Le Roseau Révolté, Nina Berberova (link to English language Wikipedia)
Quatre Soldats, Hubert Mingarelli (link to French language Wikipedia)

Those are the first book of each author that I stumbled on. I immediately researched their work and then read everything I could get my hands on. That's what I'm planning to do about Thomas Wharton... I have the list of his books in my wallet now...

Thomas Wharton - Salamander

A wonderful trip. I consider myself a heavy reader. I probably read over 100 books every year. This is now my top one. And I haven't even finished yet ! I'm looking forward to reading Thomas Wharton's other books.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Source & more review quotes : Here.
«Spellbinding, original, Salamander careens through a world of ideas and stories in which the transforming power of books, the thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of immortality become erotic. It is also a universal story of love and obsession. Set in the eighteenth century, the narrative revolves around a world-spanning quest for the infinite book. Along the way the novel gathers stories that range from a Chinese tale of jealousy and lost love to the remarkable history of Alexandria’s other great library and to epoch-making moments on the battlefields of colonial America. At the centre of the novel’s unforgettable cast of characters is the London printer Nicholas Flood, a dedicated craftsman who is unprepared for all that awaits him when he accepts an unusual commission. Intricate, humane, infused with humour and pathos, Salamander is an exhilarating, elegantly crafted novel.»


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Source & full article : Here.
«The process was more painful than it sounds. All of Salamander’s original frame story was dumped. Convoluted subplots hit walls for weeks on end. He wrote himself into corners and trashed “tons of material.” To free his mind, Wharton turned to nonsensical tasks. He points to an elaborate, two-page pop-up in the centre of his scrapbook. “That took me four hours. I came up from the basement and showed my wife and she just looked at me and said, ‘This is what you’ve been doing? I thought you were working on your book.’ Well, I was.”»

Thomas Wharton's blog : Here.

The wonderful world of Loya

The beauty that is expressed in the lines she draws is sometimes overwhelming to me. My daughter (16yrs), the artist.

See more : Loya on DeviantArt

I'd be late for work...

Yup, I'd be really late for work if this was the sky I saw when I walked out of the house one morning.

Awesome, isn't it ?

Source : Astronomy Picture of the day

New Day

Nothing more to say here. I'm a fan. I'm a believer.

I live in Quebec, I consider myself a Quebecoise (and a bit Canadian) but a deep part of me will always be American - I was born in the USA and raised there until the age of 13, long enough to have deep roots. Actually, I only discovered how deep on September 11th 2001... But I hated Bush. So much. So deeply. It hurt. He shamed my American heart.

It's new day. Good Luck Sir ! May God be with you !

Photo source : Vanity Fair

Deleted my old blog

Yup ! I was looking at the crap on my old blog to see if there was anything I wanted to transfer to this one. A few good posts that took time to write and sometimes research. I was going through the list and all of a sudden something just snapped and I decided to delete the whole darn thing. No second thoughts. Click! Wow. Feels good. Like fresh linens from the clothes line. Crisp. Clean. New.

New Space

I have found it rather inconvenient to have people I know bite me for things I wrote on my former blog. So this is my new space. I'll try to keep it interesting but I'm a selfish blogger. This is just a place where I mumble things to myself. Of course it's nice when others seem to appreciate too. But that's extra, not the goal. Sorry.