Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

 When American Ella Turner moves with her husband to Lisle-sur-Tarn, a small town in southwestern France, she hopes to qualify to practice as a midwife as well as to start a family of her own. Instead she is disrupted by less-than-idyllic village life and strange dreams of the color blue. Haunted by sleepless nights, bewildered by her unwelcoming neighbors, Ella tries to forge a bond with her new home by investigating her French ancestors, with...

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Eragon and Bag of Bones: True Crimes

EragonI just bought and read the last book of Eragon, Inheritance by Christopher Paolini. A little bit late, but considering the time and money needed to read the book, I think I bought it in quite the right time.  I’m in maternity leave and my husband was generous enough to allow me to buy Inheritance.The thing is, I read the third book, Brisingr, years ago (or it feels like years ago) and I already forgot some of the stories and the characters. So, I decided to read the whole pack once more, from Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and at last Inheritance...

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Hello World!

Hi, it has been a long time since my last post. It doesn’t mean I didn’t read and watch any books or movies…I was just too overwhelmed to write about anything. I watched King’s miniseries of Bag of Bones, downloaded series of The Mentalist, Bones, and Castle. I read Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier, Summerhouse and Knight in Shining Armor  by Jude Deveraux, Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan (Disney’s Official Site), re-read Bourne’s Trilogy by Robert Ludlum, Umberto Eco’s Name of The Roses, to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Taiko by Eiji...

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