D. Audy 🇨🇦
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Book, TV, Cinema Lover. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Crime/Mystery, Historical Fiction. Espionage, and mainstream literature too. Weird Music. Legendary Pink Dots. Français & English. Great cook, and sometime gardener. 📚 💙
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#111 read in 2025. Anne Perry - Southampton Row. In her 22nd Pitts novel Perry continued the shift toward more politic-based mysteries with Thomas at Special Branch and a murder set in the midst of the 1892 election. A fairly good entry, though the Charlotte arc is very thin in this one. 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#111 read in 2025. Anne Perry - Southampton Row. In her 22nd Pitts novel Perry continued the shift toward more politic-based mysteries with Thomas at Special Branch and a murder set in the midst of the 1892 election. A fairly good entry, though the Charlotte arc is very thin in this one. 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
Hi. I'm in the last chapter of Anne Perry's Southampton Row, and still reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
I'm looking at various options from my TBR to start tonight. It's nearing the deadline to pick which books/series I really want to read before the end of the year
Have a great bookish week
I'm looking at various options from my TBR to start tonight. It's nearing the deadline to pick which books/series I really want to read before the end of the year
Have a great bookish week
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hi. I'm in the last chapter of Anne Perry's Southampton Row, and still reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
I'm looking at various options from my TBR to start tonight. It's nearing the deadline to pick which books/series I really want to read before the end of the year
Have a great bookish week
I'm looking at various options from my TBR to start tonight. It's nearing the deadline to pick which books/series I really want to read before the end of the year
Have a great bookish week
#110 read in 2025. Robert Harris - Conclave. Late to the party for this one, but the book has aged well. Great suspense, fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of a modern, post reform Conclave. Not sure if I love or not the final twist, but it doesn't change my appreciation of the novel. 💙📚
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
#110 read in 2025. Robert Harris - Conclave. Late to the party for this one, but the book has aged well. Great suspense, fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of a modern, post reform Conclave. Not sure if I love or not the final twist, but it doesn't change my appreciation of the novel. 💙📚
#109 read in 2025. Stuart M. Kaminsky - A Fine Red Rain. Rostnikov, Tkach, Karpo are back along an expanding recurrent cast. The mysteries are a tad simple, but it's the fascinating portrayal of police work and daily life in the mid-80s USSR that makes this series truly shine. 💙📚⚡ 📚⏳
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#109 read in 2025. Stuart M. Kaminsky - A Fine Red Rain. Rostnikov, Tkach, Karpo are back along an expanding recurrent cast. The mysteries are a tad simple, but it's the fascinating portrayal of police work and daily life in the mid-80s USSR that makes this series truly shine. 💙📚⚡ 📚⏳
Hi! I'm in the last few chapters of Conclave by Robert Harris and progressing more slowly with (but savouring) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. I'm starting this week the twentieth and final Rougon-Macquart novel by Émile Zola.
Maybe the new Claire North space opera too.
Have a great reading week.
Maybe the new Claire North space opera too.
Have a great reading week.
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hi! I'm in the last few chapters of Conclave by Robert Harris and progressing more slowly with (but savouring) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. I'm starting this week the twentieth and final Rougon-Macquart novel by Émile Zola.
Maybe the new Claire North space opera too.
Have a great reading week.
Maybe the new Claire North space opera too.
Have a great reading week.
I've got a bottle as a gift once, it's great (kind of a luxury as an import in Canada. We do with HP)
The fruitier Japanese "Bull-dog sauce" (tonkatsu) is worth a try for a brown sauce lover if you come across it. It does contain soy and Chinese five spice, so the profile is a bit different
The fruitier Japanese "Bull-dog sauce" (tonkatsu) is worth a try for a brown sauce lover if you come across it. It does contain soy and Chinese five spice, so the profile is a bit different
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I've got a bottle as a gift once, it's great (kind of a luxury as an import in Canada. We do with HP)
The fruitier Japanese "Bull-dog sauce" (tonkatsu) is worth a try for a brown sauce lover if you come across it. It does contain soy and Chinese five spice, so the profile is a bit different
The fruitier Japanese "Bull-dog sauce" (tonkatsu) is worth a try for a brown sauce lover if you come across it. It does contain soy and Chinese five spice, so the profile is a bit different
#108 read in 2025. Émile Zola (🇫🇷) - La Débâcle. Snapshots from the Franco-Prussian war, the debacle of the Second Empire and la Commune's horrifying insurrection of 1871 and one of Zola's literary masterpieces. One of the most powerful novels about war and the beauty and horror of human nature ⏳📚💙
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#108 read in 2025. Émile Zola (🇫🇷) - La Débâcle. Snapshots from the Franco-Prussian war, the debacle of the Second Empire and la Commune's horrifying insurrection of 1871 and one of Zola's literary masterpieces. One of the most powerful novels about war and the beauty and horror of human nature ⏳📚💙
#108 read in 2025. Émile Zola (🇫🇷) - La Débâcle. Snapshots from the Franco-Prussian war, the debacle of the Second Empire and la Commune's horrifying insurrection of 1871 and one of Zola's literary masterpieces. One of the most powerful novels about war and the beauty and horror of human nature ⏳📚💙
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#108 read in 2025. Émile Zola (🇫🇷) - La Débâcle. Snapshots from the Franco-Prussian war, the debacle of the Second Empire and la Commune's horrifying insurrection of 1871 and one of Zola's literary masterpieces. One of the most powerful novels about war and the beauty and horror of human nature ⏳📚💙
#107 read in 2025. Bryan Talbot - Grandville. First graphic novel in the Grandville series. Rich world building, cultural references hidden on every page, fun detective story. Stellar. A great alternate reality in which animals run the show and the Napoleonic empire lasts into the XXth century.
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#107 read in 2025. Bryan Talbot - Grandville. First graphic novel in the Grandville series. Rich world building, cultural references hidden on every page, fun detective story. Stellar. A great alternate reality in which animals run the show and the Napoleonic empire lasts into the XXth century.
#106 read in 2025. Ian Fleming - Live And Let Die (007 #2). Nostalgia reread. Still a fun read, much more streamlined than the movie which added a lot of spectacle, but only as long as one can get past the extremely eye-rolling 1950s sexism and colonial mindset (which on some pages is not easy!)
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
#106 read in 2025. Ian Fleming - Live And Let Die (007 #2). Nostalgia reread. Still a fun read, much more streamlined than the movie which added a lot of spectacle, but only as long as one can get past the extremely eye-rolling 1950s sexism and colonial mindset (which on some pages is not easy!)
Good evening. I have five ongoing. Stuart M. Kaminsky's A Fine Red Rain, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Bryan Talbot's Grandville graphic novel (just started), and nearing the end of Émile Zola's La Débâcle, and on-and-off reading short stories from the anthology The End of the World As We Know It.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Good evening. I have five ongoing. Stuart M. Kaminsky's A Fine Red Rain, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Bryan Talbot's Grandville graphic novel (just started), and nearing the end of Émile Zola's La Débâcle, and on-and-off reading short stories from the anthology The End of the World As We Know It.
#105 read in 2025. Franquin/Jidéhem - Gala de Gaffes à Gogo (1964-67). Revisiting a childhood favourite, with Gaston. the laziest, most blunder-prone junior office clerk in existence. Still funny, though this first collection of early strips is still a bit rough and missing key players. 💙📚
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#105 read in 2025. Franquin/Jidéhem - Gala de Gaffes à Gogo (1964-67). Revisiting a childhood favourite, with Gaston. the laziest, most blunder-prone junior office clerk in existence. Still funny, though this first collection of early strips is still a bit rough and missing key players. 💙📚
#104 read in 2025. Fabcaro/Conrad. L'Iris Blanc (Astérix #40).
Conrad back to the drawing board with a new writer with a humour definitely recalling the good years of Goscinny and a story that satirizes modern fads and mentality make for a rather successful Astérix entry. 💙📚
Conrad back to the drawing board with a new writer with a humour definitely recalling the good years of Goscinny and a story that satirizes modern fads and mentality make for a rather successful Astérix entry. 💙📚
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#104 read in 2025. Fabcaro/Conrad. L'Iris Blanc (Astérix #40).
Conrad back to the drawing board with a new writer with a humour definitely recalling the good years of Goscinny and a story that satirizes modern fads and mentality make for a rather successful Astérix entry. 💙📚
Conrad back to the drawing board with a new writer with a humour definitely recalling the good years of Goscinny and a story that satirizes modern fads and mentality make for a rather successful Astérix entry. 💙📚
#103 lu en 2025. Au coeur même de la Révolution Française avec une enquête sur des meurtres (fictifs) par le jeune gendarme et protégé de La Fayette Victor Dauterive. Portes ose avec brio arrimer son mystère romanesque très près de la Grande Histoire et mettre en scène plusieurs joueurs clé 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#103 lu en 2025. Au coeur même de la Révolution Française avec une enquête sur des meurtres (fictifs) par le jeune gendarme et protégé de La Fayette Victor Dauterive. Portes ose avec brio arrimer son mystère romanesque très près de la Grande Histoire et mettre en scène plusieurs joueurs clé 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
#103 read in 2025. Jean-Christophe Portes (🇫🇷) L'Affaire des Corps sans tête. Murder mystery that cleverly brings the reader to the heart of the early (winter 1791) French Revolution. Intricate plot, immersive, Dumas-like flair for blending adventure, fiction and History with a capital H. 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#103 read in 2025. Jean-Christophe Portes (🇫🇷) L'Affaire des Corps sans tête. Murder mystery that cleverly brings the reader to the heart of the early (winter 1791) French Revolution. Intricate plot, immersive, Dumas-like flair for blending adventure, fiction and History with a capital H. 💙📚⚡ 💙📚⏳
Personally I still have very fond memories of studying in school the exploits of Marxus and Engelus to end the class struggle in Rome and topple the villainous Julius Caesar and send him to the Guillotinus, invented by Astérix le Gaulois. The sickle of Panoramix and the Hammer of Obélix triumphed!
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Personally I still have very fond memories of studying in school the exploits of Marxus and Engelus to end the class struggle in Rome and topple the villainous Julius Caesar and send him to the Guillotinus, invented by Astérix le Gaulois. The sickle of Panoramix and the Hammer of Obélix triumphed!
Hi. I'm reading the French historical thriller L'Affaire des corps sans tête by JC Portes and rereading Ian Fleming's *very* 1950s Live and Let Die. I'm still slowly reading Zola's La Débâcle and stories from the collection The End of the World As We Know It. Have a great reading/bookselling week!
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hi. I'm reading the French historical thriller L'Affaire des corps sans tête by JC Portes and rereading Ian Fleming's *very* 1950s Live and Let Die. I'm still slowly reading Zola's La Débâcle and stories from the collection The End of the World As We Know It. Have a great reading/bookselling week!
#102 read in 2025. Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night. Working from seeds carefully planted in Two Kinds of Truth Connelly brings Ballard and Bosch together. Very interesting and well developed pairing that is the substantial main dish, as the mystery itself is a bit thinner than usual. 💙📚⚡
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#102 read in 2025. Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night. Working from seeds carefully planted in Two Kinds of Truth Connelly brings Ballard and Bosch together. Very interesting and well developed pairing that is the substantial main dish, as the mystery itself is a bit thinner than usual. 💙📚⚡
#102 read in 2025. Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night. Working from seeds carefully planted in Two Kinds of Truth Connelly brings Ballard and Bosch together. Very interesting and well developed pairing that is the substantial main dish, as the mystery itself is a bit thinner than usual. 💙📚⚡
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#102 read in 2025. Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night. Working from seeds carefully planted in Two Kinds of Truth Connelly brings Ballard and Bosch together. Very interesting and well developed pairing that is the substantial main dish, as the mystery itself is a bit thinner than usual. 💙📚⚡
So glad we’ve chosen our 😍 leader wisely. He’s gotten fairly good at deflecting with the Force whatever the US tries to throw at us
Today he bought all the 🇰🇷 nuclear submarines Trump "granted permission"(🙄) to build
He’ll returns Saturday after a short detour to France to solve the Louvre heist
Today he bought all the 🇰🇷 nuclear submarines Trump "granted permission"(🙄) to build
He’ll returns Saturday after a short detour to France to solve the Louvre heist
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So glad we’ve chosen our 😍 leader wisely. He’s gotten fairly good at deflecting with the Force whatever the US tries to throw at us
Today he bought all the 🇰🇷 nuclear submarines Trump "granted permission"(🙄) to build
He’ll returns Saturday after a short detour to France to solve the Louvre heist
Today he bought all the 🇰🇷 nuclear submarines Trump "granted permission"(🙄) to build
He’ll returns Saturday after a short detour to France to solve the Louvre heist
Good early evening! I've started the historical mystery L'Affaire des corps sans tête by Jean-Christophe Portes (🇫🇷) and Michael Connelly's Dark Sacred Night. Still progressing leisurely through Zola's La Débâcle and the anthology the End of the World As We Know it. Have a great reading week.
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Good early evening! I've started the historical mystery L'Affaire des corps sans tête by Jean-Christophe Portes (🇫🇷) and Michael Connelly's Dark Sacred Night. Still progressing leisurely through Zola's La Débâcle and the anthology the End of the World As We Know it. Have a great reading week.
#101 read in 2025. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles. From 88, the first prequel to be written but 7th novel in the timeline and first Napoleonic war campaign. Classic Cornwell with a fun adventure set during the English retreat in Spain in 1809. Has all one's expect from Sharpe. ⏳💙📚
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#101 read in 2025. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles. From 88, the first prequel to be written but 7th novel in the timeline and first Napoleonic war campaign. Classic Cornwell with a fun adventure set during the English retreat in Spain in 1809. Has all one's expect from Sharpe. ⏳💙📚
#101 read in 2025. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles. From 88, the first prequel to be written but 7th novel in the timeline and first Napoleonic war campaign. Classic Cornwell with a fun adventure set during the English retreat in Spain in 1809. Has all one's expect from Sharpe. ⏳💙📚
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#101 read in 2025. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles. From 88, the first prequel to be written but 7th novel in the timeline and first Napoleonic war campaign. Classic Cornwell with a fun adventure set during the English retreat in Spain in 1809. Has all one's expect from Sharpe. ⏳💙📚
#100 read in 2025. Michael Wood (🇬🇧) The Mind of a Murderer. A tad conventional but very sharply written, dark, horrific, twisted serial killer psych thriller with a child victim turned Forensics Psychologist as its main protagonist. A solid opener with room to evolve into a great series. 🩸📚 ⚡📚💙
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#100 read in 2025. Michael Wood (🇬🇧) The Mind of a Murderer. A tad conventional but very sharply written, dark, horrific, twisted serial killer psych thriller with a child victim turned Forensics Psychologist as its main protagonist. A solid opener with room to evolve into a great series. 🩸📚 ⚡📚💙