#les chevalier d'emeraude

[lyraarylfyrefly]

everytime i see or remember poor little meow meows i think i don't have one and then i remember that i have had a poor little meow meow since i was little and din't know tumblr existed but i don't really know if he really classifies as one since i wouldn't even defend him, i just think his storyline is so fucking hilarious.

imagine possessing your descendant to get revenge on an immortal and getting the throne like you wanted 500 years ago, getting found out, possess your other descendant but not fully this time, btw he is married 4 times total two times 500 years ago, 1 for the royalty scam and another by the descendant but also he became him, he still does dark magic, he still tries to murder the immortal who's always been on the side of the good guys then after the good guys have won, he gets the throne through some bullshit, doesn't get to murder the immortal like he wanted to albeit the immortal is now some guy with magic and guess what his exploits aren't finished

next series, he is revealed to be a god in a human body that is above most of the gods we know bc guess what: instead of two layers of god there are now nonsensically a lot more, 3 bottom pantheons (they are still gods of couse so they're op), 2 creator gods + their siblings including the poor little meow meow, the real creator gods AND to create more nonsense the alternate universe pantheon of gods, I AM NOT FINISHED, HE CHEATS ON HIS WIFE WHO IS REVEALED TO TECHNICALLY BE HIS WIFE BC SHE'S HIS SISTER AND HER SOUL WAS SPLIT IN HALF

In short i find him hilarious bc everything goes his way eventually and the story is hilariously bad either way

feel free to add your own deranged summaries of your poor little meow meows in the reblogs

#poor little meow meow #this is #onyx a character from #les chevaliers d'émeraude #les chevaliers d'emeraude #he is still the best worst to me #and if i ever wrote fanfic about this shitty series of books it would be a rewrite like almost everyone else #but also probably a lot of fics about onyx being a terrible person and getting away with it lol

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#les chevaliers d'emeraude #anne robillard #tiburce oger #casterman #europe comics #bande dessinee #bande dessinée #poll

[drawnecromancy]

Je pense que, autant je suis convaincu que utiliser "tunique" a chaque putain de vêtement c'est méga abusé, autant y a moyen de faire des tuniques très sympa. Et c'est pas super dur a coudre donc... Peut-être Drawnecromancy en tunique rose incoming ?

#les chevaliers d'emeraude #aussi je viens de me rappeler que Kira quand elle devient chevalière elle insiste pour être en violet #je trouve ça si drôle

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #sixty eight rooms #fairy wings #les chevaliers d’émeraude #regarding the #ghost knight #the roman mysteries #the cloak society #the faerie realm #silver brumby

[mediawhorefics]

Book ask! 1, 10,19, 20! 💙

book answers <333

book you’ve reread the most times?

excluding the series that shall not be named... i have a few ~comfort reads that i've found myself revisting over the years. the watchmater of filigree street (natash pulley) is one of them. shocker i know, none of you expected this!! i've also read the captive prince series (c.s. pacat) a few times, esp. kings rising the last book. i really don't like diana gabaldon as a person (i think her stance on fanfiction is not only stupid as fuck but also hypocritical considering she stole her male lead from old doctor who episodes and didn't even change his name.) but the first outlander novel remains a favourite of mine in the historical romance department and i've read it many times. the series got lost along the way (at least i lost interest) but the first one is really entertaining! also time travel and scotland, you know i'm there for it. i've read red white & royal blue (casey mcquiston) a bunch. 3 or 4x ? it's got that classic romcom vibe and i deeply connected with the way it approaches grieving someone when you're young/for the first time. i've also read cyrano de bergerac (edmon rostand) a lot. both in the original french and different translations. it's excellent.

10. do you have a guilty fav?

i don't know if i believe in guilty favs tbh! as long as it's not hurting anyone, why should i feel guilty about art that i enjoy? but for the sake of the game/for the sake of argument, i'll try to come up with a list. i guess i read a lot of star wars novels (big nerd over here) and they're very quick adventure-y types with a sprinkle of character study so it's hard to consider them as literature sometimes? so a few of those would be on the list. i really enjoyed the padme trilogy, padawan, master & apprentice, all of claudia gray's sw novels, the rots novelisation, brotherhood etc. there are a few het romances i also love a lot that i suppose i could include here? outlander is the first. but i adore emily henry's writing too which makes me feel pretty basic bitch, but she writes a lot of fun romances with bookish themes and that's like catnip to me. any of the darth vader comics ?? that counts, right? oh! i recently read an arthurian retelling that cast merlin as a queer teenager coming to camelot impersonating her brother and meeting young arthur and kind of falling in love with him. i suppose that had a cringe cover but i had so much fun with it. one of my fav ya i've read recently. it's the other merlin! idk that i'd describe it as a favourite book overall but....

19. most disliked popular books?

i loathe the all for the game series that was popular on tumblr a few years ago? there was nothing compelling about it to me. it wasn't that well written, the characters weren't that compelling, the sport was boring and the romance just didn't have the ooof i needed from it. i truly never understood the hype. i tried reading the kiss quotient (helen huang) which was huge in the romance circles a while back and never finished it. ok this one comes from the depth of my childhood and will not be relatable to many of you but les chevaliers d'emeraude (anne robillard) is SO awfully written it gives me hives. i don't know if it counts but i despise jules verne too. fuck that guy, i know he's ~classic but his writing is so fucking dull. and i haven't read albert camus since high school so my opinion might change if i revisit him, but i remember him making me soooooo angry. i think everything written by cassandra clare is pretty awful. i hate her style. sooooo many people were gushing over boyfriend material (alexis hall) and i hated that. the main character was annoying and immature and simply not charming at all to me. i don't think i laughed even once. i need to laugh in a romcom, come on!! it has a four stars rating on goodreads and i simply do not get it. it was boring and i hated the writing style. and apparently, there's a sequel too ??? talk about the most unnecessary book written ever. sorry to fans of it, it was just no my cup of tea.

20. what are things you look for in a book?

not necessarily all at once but:

a historical setting (i esp. love the first half of the 20th century)

some fantasy elements. it doesn't have to be high fantasy (though i like that too) but a little sprinkle is always fun.

romance !!!!! i love a good pinning, swooning, soft, tender romance!!! (duh) enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, strangers to friends to lovers. it HAS to be a slow burn because instalove turns me off.

i love a good found family/a good friend group!!

time travel is not a must but it's an easy way to seduce me

my main character type is heart of gold/noble intentions/heroic but struggling with anger issues... so a bit of that and i'm sorted.

snarky female characters. (actually just well-written female characters in general, which feels like a very basic ask but we allllll know it's not that easy)

i looooooove a good mystery. not a murder mystery, i'm not super into those. but i love a book that presents us with something to solve (like the shadow of the wind)

i'm not super into unhappy endings (tho. i don't mind them once in a while) but i love melancholic stories and Drama. just something that makes me FEEL.

it has to be atmospheric/it has to transport me.

i love poetic writing/beautiful prose.

also it (almost always) has to be gay. lbr.

book asks

#about me #books #book rec

[mask131]

My fantasy negative-list

This is a personal post more than anything.

It is a list of all the fantasy books I do not keep in my personal library or on my bookshelves for one reason or another. I make this list to be able to remember these books one day, despite them not being physically with me and me not thinking about them at all X).

This is a melting pot here, as you'll find down there series I actually hated ; books I didn't hate but thought were just badly written and/or uninteresting in terms of plot/world ; and books that simply did not click at the time I tried to read them (but maybe if I try them later, I'll get them). I will not be including here my "guilty pleasures" ; and I will update the list as the titles piles on.

English-speaking fantasy:

The Shannara series, by Terry Brooks.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

French-speaking fantasy:

Ombramère, by Pierre Saviste.

Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude, by Anne Robillard.

#my fantasy negative list #personal post #fantasy literature #fantasy books

[lueur-sd]

Alors que l'Empereur Noir menace les différents Royaumes, la Confrérie des Chevaliers doit poursuivre ses entraînements et former de nouveaux guerriers. Humains, elfes, druides, sorciers... N'importe quelle créature peut se retrouver à intégrer le château d'Eroswall dès son plus jeune âge afin de devenir l'un des Chevaliers d'Ero. Lorsque ses parents ont découvert les aptitudes de leur fille Swan, qui avait environ 5 ans, c'est sans aucune hésitation qu'ils l'ont envoyée faire sa formation. Depuis, l'enfant n'a cessé d'améliorer ses capacités magiques mais également ses compétences au combat. Maniant l'épée et le bouclier avec force et grâce, elle sait également très bien se servir d'un arc, même si ce n'est pas son arme de prédilection. Sa famille maintenant, ce sont les autres Chevaliers d'Ero, avec qui elle a tissé des liens très forts.  Devenue une belle jeune femme plutôt confiante, Swan a souvent vu certains de ses frères d'armes lui faire la cour mais, jusqu'ici, aucun d'eux n'a su conquérir le cœur de la guerrière. Aujourd'hui, Swan doit partir au combat avec ses frères et soeurs d'arme. La menace est belle et bien présente, l'armée de l'Empereur Noir et ses guerriers insectes se rapprochent dangereusement du Royaume d'Eroswall... [ Inspirée des Chevaliers d'Emeraude ]

#écriture #roleplay #imagination #jeux de rôles #livre #saga #les chevaliers d'émeraude #les héritiers d'enkidiev

[auda-isarn]

La bibliothèque de mon cousin et de sa copine.

Outre les très belles figurines pop, on remarquera :

- Deux tomes de Twilight, j'avais bien aimé les lires, c'est toujours mieux que After.

- Les chevaliers d'Emeraude, que je n'ai malheureusement jamais commencé.

- Les Eragon j'ai jamais accroché.

- Narnia je commence à aimer.

- Le clan Otori, excellente littérature.

- Je ne savais pas que les studio Ghibli avaient fait des romans 😮.

[soso-dedeck]

Dessin de Kira des Chevaliers d’Emeraude

#kira #aquarelle #feutre #chevalier d'emeraude #character design #les chevalier d'emeraude #knight

[magrabelais]

Plongez dans l'univers fantastique des Chevaliers d'Emeraude !

"Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude" est une série de douze tomes écrite par Anne Robillard. Chaque tome fait plus ou moins 300 pages. Cette série raconte l'histoire d'un Ordre de Chevaliers – les Chevaliers d'Emeraude – qui défendent leur continent, Enkidiev, contre le terrible Empereur Noir, Amecareth, son sorcier maléfique, Asbeth, et sa puissante armée d'hommes-insectes et de dragons. Ils doivent pour cela protéger une petite fille à la peau mauve, Kira, qui elle-même devra défendre le fameux porteur de lumière, qui lui seul aura le pouvoir de détruire Amecareth, tout en protégeant le continent des fréquents raids des hommes-insectes, tous plus terribles les uns que les autres.

J'ai personnellement adoré cette série, pleine de mystères, de magie, de suspens, mais qui a pourtant quelques défauts : les dialogues ne sont pas très naturels (trop de langage soutenu) et il manque parfois quelques descriptions. Malgré cela je vous conseille fortement ces livres si vous aimez tout ce qui est fantasy, magie, créatures imaginaires... et surtout si vous aimez lire, parce que douze tomes, ça ne s'avale pas d'un coup ! D'autant plus que cette série en est suivie d'une autre, "Les Héritiers d'Enkidiev" qui raconte tout ce qui se passe après la guerre, qui fait aussi douze tomes, et qui est tout aussi bien, voir plus !

Simon DE PUTTER

#critique #livre #culture

[villainsincantations]

23/03/2020

Been reading a lot of fantasy lately so I'm trying to incorporate that into my language learning.

'Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude' is a French book series. I think its about the same level of difficulty as Harry Potter. I'm leaning lots of new vocab!

#langblr #learning French #les Chavaliers d'Emeraude #my learning log #french

[drawnecromancy]

amecareth is a monsterfucker? context? <3

OH god the context for that one is a series of fantasy books written in french by Anne Robillard, Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude (the Knights of Emerald in english, the 12 book series has been translated in english (!!rare thing to have happen) and is available as ebooks on her website but I don't really recommend them).

I'm going to put a content warning here for rape even though I'm not going to go into graphic detail.

The Big Bad Evil Guy, Emperor Amecareth of the Tanieth, has a hobby called "raping non-Tanieth people to have hybrid kids and have them learn magic and have a gaggle of superpowered evil kids to take over the world".

I think the Tanieth are meant to be beetle-humanoids ? But their home was once compared to an anthill so they're just ant guys in my brain. Little funny ants who are super tall and will kill you.

The manner in which Amecareth is written is very "he's evil and he rapes people for shock value, with 0 care attached to those kinds of storylines", and rape is rarely a subject I enjoy writing about, so I was just... writing a fanfic where he really is just the Tanieth equivalent of a monsterfucker, and doesn't rape people. Also he's the Tanieth equivalent of a very lost 20 year old in that fic.

I think he could be an immensely interesting character while still being an evil imperialist motherfucker (literally) without the need to go "yeah he's a rapist to tell you he's evil in a Shock Anecdote !"

But that would just loop back to my general gripes with Anne Robillard's writing - I think there's often very little care or substance on whatever she's writing/implying at any given moment. Amecareth being a rapist could be a useful character bit in the hands of another writer. I don't want to write that, as I don't think I have the skill to do so currently, so I'm chucking it out in the waste bin.

Now, realizing that political alliances with all sorts of human and non-human people is SUPER USEFUL if you HAVE KIDS WITH THEM ? and THEN using these kids as a way to give more power to your evil empire ? THAT's what I want to write about, and that's pretty much what "Amecareth is a monsterfucker" is about, if we add onto that first love and getting his ass handed to him.

A brief summary of the fic would be :

"Amecareth gets thrown out of his home by his father the emperor of the Tanieth for being too ambitious for his own good, and is told to go invade a southern continent about it on his own if he's THAT smart. Once there, Amecareth begins studying the people living there, finds love, war, and death in rapid succession.

This is the story that led to Enkidiev's First War against the Tanieth."

#cw rape #sorry about that ! it's present in the books and it'd be dishonest not to talk about it #so yeah this is basically an AU where Amecareth is slightly more decent. still evil but doesn't do *that* #asks #i do not have a problem with rape in media. i have a problem where it's so badly handled it's basically a fun little anecdote #that you forget 5 pages after it's said #despite one of the main characters being. Amecareth's daughter. guess what he did to her mom. #the way i'm writing this is almost as tactless as the way it was handled in the book #even if i had the skill to write about that without it being So Bad You Want To Puke i'm not sure i WOULD. (glancing nervously at realva.) #ANYWAY YEAH UH UNFORTUNATELY THE EVIL EMPEROR AND HIS EVIL BIRD SON ARE LIKE #MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS FROM THESE BOOKS #other favorites include : Wellan (basically the main character); Kira (Amecareth's daughter and SUCH a cool kid); Santo (beloved) #i have lots to say about these books I have considered making straight up video essays about them #i'd just. have to reread them. you know. #and write a script and all. #one day ! LOL i have too many projects and not enough time #thanks for asking! hope this was not an unpalatable answer !

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #casson family #jennifer hecate macbeth william mckinley and me elizabeth #unicorns of balinor #the divide #phantom stallion #miri and molly #iron hearted violet #sixty eight rooms #fairy wings #les chevaliers d’émeraude

[midnight-circus]

drama queen

no matter the AU rené loves a fuckin party

There is no sense, it has been said, in acquiring vast amounts of wealth without also acquiring the means to enjoy it.

The Château d'Emeraude stands as testament to this pledge. Nestled neatly in too many acres to count, it sparkles jewel-like in the embrace of its sculptured gardens, its windows glowing amber in the soft blue twilight. Across the rolling lawns and through the twisting maze of roses and peonies, the echoes of chamber music layers itself softly under the purr of water-fountains and the quiet rumble of voices and laughter; bodies drift across the lawn, walking, dancing, embracing in the dark, wandering in and out of the open veranda doors.

Open doors are a policy here. Even when closed, it’s always worth a knock.

Champagne flows freely in the ballroom, filling outstretched crystal glasses like water, slicking the Venetian tiles like oil. Decorum has very little place at Emeraude – one does not come here to stand on ceremony. One does not come here to be witnessed. The discretion of the host is well-known and well-trusted, if only for the simple reason that he behaves just as badly himself. Daggers at each other’s back nevertheless maintains a sense of ill-gotten trust, one way or another.

He can be found, as he can always be found, in the centre of the room – centre of the room, centre of attention, centre of the world, holding court as though he belongs there (which of course, he does), his smile bright, his voice loud. Marquis René Chevalier, with his dark, dishevelled curls and disarming good looks, has a knack for drawing the eye – he swans through the ballroom as though on a cloud, pouring wine, pouring compliments, stroking arms and hair and egos in equal measure. He laughs with one group, commiserates with another; denounces the royal family and then turns around to exalt them, ever charming, ever smiling. He kisses the hand of a handsome newblood noble, and shakes the hand of his pretty wife – they are enamoured by his eccentricity, and he holds them both to him as he circles the room, one in each arm. He will not sleep with them tonight, but he will allow them to think that he might, and when his name next shows up on the commendations list at the palace they will remember his charm, his efficacy.

He has been climbing the social ladder since the day he realised there was one to climb, and he is so close now – so close to the top. Emeraude is his reward, certainly, and he is devoted to it – it is a glittering testament to his success – but at the same time it is a tantalising reminder of his proximity to the palace.

He is limitless. He will stop at nothing to taste it.

***

“Ambassador! I ask you.”

Downstairs, the festivities roll on into the night. They are still in their youth – the clock struck two only a little while ago – and it will be many hours yet until they begin to die down. René has excused himself, spilling self-depreciating apologies, pleading forgiveness against the mock-anger of his current companions who saw him off with affection. They will discuss him for the next hour, at least – that he has made quite sure of. Now he lounges in an upstairs parlour, settled in a well-padded wingback. He sits sideways, his legs slung over the leather arm, his cravat loose around his throat; his maroon waistcoat has been dropped in front of the carved hearth, where the firelight catches on the skeins of gold threading through the silk like veins. He may go back down; he may not. Either way, he doesn’t intend to button himself back up again tonight. Visitors to Emeraude have all seen him far more debauched than this.

“You heard that, didn’t you?” He goes on, waving a glass of port that threatens to spill down his shirt if he flourishes it any more vigorously. “It wasn’t just me?”

“I w-wasn’t there.” The man in the room with him is doing a very good job of pretending to rearrange the bookshelves. He watches René warily, like one might watch an unfamiliar dog who has been introduced as ‘very friendly, most of the time’.

“Oh, that’s right. Of course you weren’t.” He brings the glass to his lips, draining the last of it, and immediately fills it up again from the decanter on the sidetable beside him. It flows into the glass as thick and sweet as mulberry syrup. “Although, Quill, you know you’re perfectly welcome to hang off my arm whenever you like.”

The man, Quill, doesn’t reply, because he can’t really think of anything worse. Not because it’s René – there is very little he wouldn’t do if René smiled at him and asked – but because the party downstairs is a singular example of his idea of Hell. A small, quiet man with nerves as frail as Iberian glass, he can envisage no more terrible fate than being thrown to the wolves that are the Gaullian nobility. Particularly when none of them understand a word he says.

“Y-you were sss-saying?” He says quietly, hoping to move swiftly on from his lacking presence at René’s frequent revelries. “S-ss-something ab-b-bout an am…amm-mbass-s-sador?”

He dearly hopes the word will not come up in conversation again. It would take him as long to say it as it would for himself to become it.

“Oh, yes, of course.” René stands up smoothly. There is no evidence in his behaviour that he is quite spectacularly drunk. “No, I was talking politics with Raphael Dejardins earlier – you know he’s a vicomte? You never would have guessed, not from the state he’s in downstairs – that’s certainly not his wife’s skirt he’s got his hand inside. Anyway, the rumour-mill is hard at work on the grist – there’s an ambassadorial role at stake at the next soirée, and it would appear I’ve been put forward. It would appear, in fact, that I’m the only name on the list.”

“Oh,” says Quill, rather pointlessly. “Is … is that g-g-good?”

“Mon cher, of course it’s not good.” He swallows the rest of his second glass and abruptly opens his hand, dropping it onto the hearth. It explodes into dust, scattering microscopic shards across the flagstones. Quill takes a hasty step towards the door. “It’s the last thing I need. What I need is to be here – to remain here, where I can assure that my face and presence is going to be remembered.”

Quill is holding a book tight to his chest; he relaxes his arms slightly and glances at the title. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He wonders if someone up there is playing a trick on him.

“I-it’s a step up, though, is-sn’t it?” He asks, as if he knows what that entails. Realistically, he understands approximately only 60% of what René is talking about at any given time, but it’s easier to pretend otherwise. “It’s t-t-trustworthy. They t-take you suh-s-ssseriously.”

René doesn’t seem to hear him which, again, is not uncommon.

“And Albion, of all places,” the marquis continues with a curl to his lip (as though the word itself sits bitter and heavy on his tongue), glaring into the flames; it sparks some colour into his eyes, which are among the darkest Quill has ever seen, dark enough to be almost black. In the firelight, they flicker a disconcerting gold. “Not that I have an innate dislike for the people, of course, but one can only guess how awful -”

And then, all at once, a smile steals it way slowly onto his face. He turns away from the fireplace and looks at Quill, and Quill is not sure he likes the look of that smile at all.

“Mon coeur,” René purrs. “Mon cher, mon amour, pick an epithet, any one you like – how would you like to go home?”

#FAverse1 #rene1 #drabbles1 #feat. quill

[chocoblondie]

Get to know me! (Tag meme)                                                      

Thanks @chocobutt-trash for tagging me!

Name: //

Nickname: Lulu

Height: 5'9  (174cm)

Ethnicity: caucasian

Favourite fruit(s)/berries: mango and strawberry 

Favourite season: Hm... spring

Favourite book(s): L'empire des anges by Bernard Werber, La quêtes d'Ewilan & Les mondes d'Ewilan by Pierre Bottero, Les chevaliers d'Emeraude by Anne Robillard and just like @chocobutt-trash I also loved la métaphysique des tubes and would recommend it to everyone.

Favourite flower(s): Lily of the valley, roses and before  everything, hyacinths.

Favourite animal(s): CAAAAAATS. And rats, they're so adorable and smart. If I didn't have so many cats already, I'd get two lovely rats.

Favourite beverage: porto. And a nice beer when it’s too hot outside.

Favourite fictional character(s): Prompto Argentum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ardyn Izunia, Erwin Smith, Levi Ackerman, Lulu (FFX), Kero (Sakura card captor)

Number of blankets you sleep with: 1

Dream trip: A long trip from China, Taiwan, Japan and back to South Korea

Blog created: Wow can’t remember

Number of followers: 1800+ … Don't ask me how, idk either. Just so thankful to all the people following me

Tagging @prompto-cam @valkyrieofardyn @poisonous-panda @dirtyffxvconfession

#this is fun

[trashmel]

Hey there! For the bookish questions: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 (which is in fact OUR country of birth, hehe :D), 12 (even though I'm sure you told me about it), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (no, not a TW book, that's not fair ;) ), 19, 22, 25, 26, 27, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50. Have fun with that :D (and no, I won't let you talk about 1 and 23 because I already know the answers and I'm an asshole ♥)

You are crazy. Also : Challenge accepted! See how I can talk about Bottero almost everywhere!

2. What is thelongest book you have ever read? How many pages?

Apparently it's HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix (which is pretty cool ;D)with around 800 pages (says wiki, I'm too lazy to move to check. Alsothe French and English versions probably don't have the samepagination... Anyway who cares, you all know this book!)

3. What is the oldestbook you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

Gorgias by Plato, as for the date? I don’t know. Wiki says “around 380 BC”

5. What book or bookseries would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

….. OH YES I CAN TALKABOUT BOTTERO AFTER ALL ;D

Ahem. I mean, I would haveto say Ellana (I mean the whole series, Le Pact des Marchombres) by Pierre Botterojust to see a badass woman fighting and writing haiku? I mean Iwould sell my soul to watch this. Please someone just turn this intoa TV show already!

6. What is yourfavourite stand-alone book?

Every book can stand byitself, I can't say (Okay, okay I just couldn't choose one thatseemed to be “the one” because I mainly read series...)

9. What is a book youhave read that is set in your country of birth?

Urgh, the first two thatcame to my mind were The Sun Also Rises byErnest Hemingway and La Bête Humaine byEmile Zola... I despise both books and I hated reading them!

12. What book do youpassionately hate?

Despite what I just said:Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe. Okay they're all books from school, so it doesn't help me, butman, this book? I read 100 pages and I couldn't go any furtherbecause it was just so loooong and boriiiing and oh my god he had tostop killing and eating animals. And really, a book to show me how tobe a good Christian? No thanks.

13. What is thebiggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?

… See, I can still talkabout Bottero :D (Oh I'm doing this on purpose, yes.)

Okayactually this is a tie?? I wasn't expecting this. So the first onewas Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude +Les Héritiers d'Enkidiev with 12 books for the former and I don't know how many for the latter. Istopped at 2 for the second, so that's a total of 14 books I actually read.

Thesecond one is Pierre Bottero's series set in Gwendalavir, with 4trilogies, one “stand-alone” (*cries*) and a short story; so 14 books as well,that I consider as a book series because everything is linked and setin the same imaginary world.

14. What book givesyou happy memories?

OH COME ON I'MTRYING... I gotta go with Ellanaby Pierre Bottero because thepoetry touched me, and oh my God I see the next question, but thisbook is probably one of the first that made me cried for acharacter's death (although I don't think it occurs in the firstbook...), and it was just so so goodand it's the one that got me to read Bottero. So kudos and yay!

15. What book madeyou cry?

Just so I do NOT talkabout Bottero again, and stop with the French books, recently Isobbed madly while reading The Sweet Hereafter byRussell Banks. It was great. But yeah, I was ugly crying more thanonce.

16. What book madeyou laugh?

I had to mention that atsome point, but it has to go to Anything Goes byJohn & Carole E. Barrowman because just looking at the book makes me smile and Ilaughed a lot while reading it.

17. What is yourfavourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

La Meute bySlimane-Baptiste Berhoun (OH YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING, DIDYOU?) because I couldn't really find another book with lgbt+characters, sadly, and actually why would I? I loved that book.

19. Have you read abook set on another planet? What is it?

Technically Bottero'sbook must be set on another planet as they travel in our world :D(also I'm not sure I have read one clearly set on another planet soyou gotta accept that)

22. What famousauthor have you not read any books by?

Any recent famous author.The first I thought about was Stephen King, so there you go.

25. How many books doyou own?

Roughly, 40 (I mean, thatare really mine, not generally my family's) because I am pooooorand spent my childhood reading thanks to libraries so never really buying books ;)

26. What is yourfavourite non-fiction book?

Oh God I don't know whydon't you ask someone else?! (I really have no idea my brain won'twork)

27. What is yourfavourite children’s/middle-grade book?

… Les Âmes Croiséesby Pierre Bottero? :D (And I amnot kidding...) but this book is just... so... wonderful. It makes mego through a shit ton of emotions every time I read it, and it's justso wonderfully written and it kinda became a dream to follow. Eitherthe characters, or the fact that I want to write something asbeautiful as this, I don't know, but it helped me a great deal and Ienjoyed it a lot.

39. What bookoffended you?

The Cursed Child byI-don't-know-who-wrote-this-but-they-surely-never-touched-a-HP-book-in-their-lifebecause I read only a few pages and couldn't really go through it.Or, I mean, the mere existence of Fifty Shades of Greyoffends me.

40. What is theweirdest book you have read?

Suddenly Last Summer byTennessee Williams which is a play that I finished thinking “so whathappened??” and realised afterwards that I had understood nothing.When I mean nothing, I mean NOTHING: there was a rape? Really? Thedead guy was gay? I missed that? It was about cannibalism? What theheck people? (I must have been tired when reading...) But even once Iunderstood it, well, it still is a weird one ;)

43. What book did youbuy because of its cover?

Le Chant du Troll byPierre Bottero because it's prettyyyyy pretty very pretty :D

44. What is a bookthat you love, but has a terrible cover?

I don't particularly likethe cover of The Yellow Wallpaper byCharlotte Perkins (although it's a great cover for the book) justbecause it's kinda creepy and I wouldn't buy it.

45. Do you own apoetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

Yup, thanks to school morethan one ;) One of them is Les Fleurs du Mal byBaudelaire, and I'd say the poem L'Albatros butI have no idea why.

47. Do you own anyhistorical fiction?

I'm not sure I actuallyown any...

48. What book madeyou angry?

I think The Catcher inthe Rye by J.D. Salinger pissedme off because I hated the main character and I wanted to shake senseinto him by punching him repeatedly. / Madame Bovary byFlaubert, do I seriously need to explain why???

49. What book hasinspired you?

Actually, Verlaine did,with Romances sans paroles becauseI read it (for school again) while I was going through a hard time,and thought that poetry was quite nice, so I wrote some. And ithelped me, so, thanks Verlaine?

50. What book got youinto reading?

Probablysome book from Jean-Luc Luciani. I remember my school organizedsomething with him when I wasn't reading much, but then I rememberchecking his books and loving them, so it's probably him. (youknow in what book they talked about Jean-Luc Luciani? That's right,baby, Bottero did!)

#mel trashtalking #it was so loooong to do #and i have an exam tomorrow #oops #but thanks xD #books #yes I know I mentioned Bottero a lot. #orphanage-body