My only reading challenge for this year is the French Female Writers Throughout the Ages. I guess it says a lot about what's been going on this year in RL that I've only started reading the first of the five books of this 2011 challenge in October...


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An article from the Guardian caught my eye... again... I found it to be very funny...

It begins as such: "It has come to my attention, via a small but seemingly quite flourishing eddy of publishing, that French women are creatures to be emulated."

Now, I wasn't aware that, as a French woman, I was perceived as such when I went abroad. So really ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm posting every day!

... Don't get used to it though ;-)

Anyway, a friend of mine just pointed this out. It's about our President's latest youtube moment and how it would translate in English, Spanish, Italian, German and Polish.

Possible English translations of "Casse-toi pauvre con": 
-  "Then get lost, you poor jerk !" 
- "Get lost then you ( Read more... )

A French magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur found it tasteful to publish a picture of Simone de Beauvoir naked... rumors has it it's been touched, but really that's not the point... in fact, what *is* the point?

They claim that because all her life, Simone de Beauvoir enjoyed provoking and shocking French bourgeoisie... but I'm not sure I see anything ( Read more... )

I've all bored you to death with podcast recommendations in the past few months, and so, here's yet another one...  Utopod.

This one is a little different since it's a French speaking science fiction podcast hosted by Lucas Moreno and Marc Tiefenauer. Based on the same idea as Escape Pod, each new episod (they haven't decided on the show's ( Read more... )

So, I'm sick. My beloved Titus (AKA my wonderful laptop... what you gotta a problem with my naming my compy? Geez, if only that were the lesser of my mental issues...) has been violently taken away from me because he is sick too! University's still on strike... am terribly bored... what's a girl to do without a library or internet?

I've been told ( Read more... )