{"id":1508,"date":"2024-01-27T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2024-01-27T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T12:47:06","slug":"a-book-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/a-book-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"A book in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oil on cardboard \u2013 8 x 8 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love reading. It is a fact. I’ve been reading since I was little. Well, since I could read! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What if, by any chance, I was asked what books I would take to a desert island… My answer has been there, ready-made for years! In reading order, at the age of 18, I discovered L’Atlantide by Pierre Benoit, which my father recommended to me. I read it in a weekend. Which never happens to me because I read very slowly. I enjoy, I taste… Years later, I wanted to reread it. A very very very bad idea. I didn’t get past halfway through the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second one is a\nthriller, still under the reading advice of my father. It is called\nla Nuit des enfants rois by Bernard Lenteric. I was 21 years old. I\nremember it like it was yesterday. I finished the book sitting on the\nbathroom floor waiting for a washing machine to finish. It\u2019s a\nmemory that cannot be made up. It’s so uninspiring. But it feels\ngood, it reassures, it brings humanity to everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My last and\nfavorite: Consuelo, la Comtesse de Rudolstadt by George Sand. George\nSand is my favorite writer since La Mare au Diable and La petite\nfadette, the books I read when I was 10. I no longer know how or why\nI opened Consuelo. I had trouble finding it. A library in a\nneighboring town had it, I had difficulty obtaining proof of address\nto be able to borrow the three volumes of this story\u2026. Actually, I\nwill spare you the details of a complicated family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time I dove\ninto reading this novel, I was on my balcony comfortably seated in my\nIk\u00e9a Poang armchair, a little music that I love, not to name it, my\nfavorite singer \u00c9tienne Daho, and I entered in another world. The\nworld of the 18th century combining emancipation and freedom. I was\n32!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is still MY book\ntoday. I wanted to buy it for years but never manage to find it. It\nwas no longer published. And then this Christmas my daughter offered\nit to me… A book that must necessarily be in one of the second-hand\nbooksellers along the Seine. A little box of wonders under the care\nof talented people passionate about literature. A Parisian curiosity\nthat is certainly worth the detour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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