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Literary start: the 5 editorial favorites

With more than 500 titles, the literary re-entry arouses as every year a lot of frenzy. Our choice - not exhaustive! - focused on the first novel, jubilant, by Quentin Tarantino; on writings imbued with poetry, humor, fantasy and Love always… Good readings! - Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, Fayard editions Although inspired by “Once upon a time… in Hollywood” this first book by director Quentin Tarantino is a novel in its own right. Los Angeles 1969. We find the actor again Rick Dalton in search of roles and his sidekick Cliff Booth, ex-stuntman turned cinephile. Both are neighbors of the Polanski-Sharon Tate couple. Fortunately, the magic of fiction will imagine for the actress a destiny quite different from reality. Quentin Tarantino, following the same plot as his Oscar-winning film Once upon a time… in Hollywood, develops other extravagant scenes and characters in the book; alludes to French cinema and is fierce with Hollywood. All the love of the 7th art at the heart of a literary creation: exhilarating! I AM ORDERING IT - My ...

Our Top 10 Love Books

What could be better than being immersed in a beautiful love story to provide you with sweet emotions. In these times when the evenings are sometimes long, we offer you a selection of books that talk a little, a lot, madly about this strange, miraculous, sometimes unmanageable … but delicious feeling that we call LOVE. A selection by Marie-Laure Vallée. THE MOST GLAMOROUS Carole and Clark, Vincent Duluc, Stock editions. Legendary stars of American cinema Carole Lombard and Clark Gable married in 1939. If the actor is a great seducer, the determined and jealous actress watches over her husband like a wolf. A love story tinged with glamor and humor at the heart of the golden age of Hollywood studios. IT MAKES ME WANT – THE MOST INTENSE Diary, Richard Burton, Séguier editions. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were too much alike not to fall madly in love with each other. Through the actor's turbulent Memoirs their passionate love story emerges. Between ruptures and reconciliations, these two giants of Hollywood cinema burned with a devastating love. IT ME...

10 essential books to discover

The most beautiful trips are hidden in the books. Jean d'Ormesson Reading offers the possibility from his sofa to live several lives… We are not going to deprive ourselves of it! Here are the 10 recommendations from Marie-Laure Vallée, from the Littérature et Compagnie blog. - “A castle for Hollywood” by Olivier Minne, published by Séguier Olivier Minne invites us to push open the door of the Castle on Sunset Boulevard, a baroque hotel in the heart of Los Angeles. Its fresco inhabited by whimsical and glamorous characters, brings us to the heart of the myth embodied by Hollywood. - "The scandalous, the novel by Louise Labé" by Michel Peyramaure, published by Calmann-Lévy A fictionalized biography of the greatest poet of the Renaissance who through her verses dared to express her desires as a libertine woman. Courageous ! - “Haute-couture” by Florence Delay, published by Gallimard Associating a dress with a life, you had to think about it. This is the challenge that Florence Delay took on by investigating the works of the painter Zurbaran and his models. Exciting ! - “My literary Paris” by François Busnel,…