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Marceline Bodier, author and contributor to the reading group "20 Minutes Books", recommends Mon petit coeur de pierre by Lucile Caron-Boyer, published on September 5, 2018 by Hachette Romans.
His favorite quote:
“I would have been much better able to have changed the situation if I hadn't blushed like an ultra-ripe tomato when I thought about Alex's white teeth. How could teeth make such an impact on me? "
Why this book?
- Because I thought I was reading a book for teens, but air of nothing, the story dismantles the mechanisms of depressions that arise in adulthood: everything is there, described in adolescence, the age where everything is played out , where all turns are possible. However, we are rather used to all of this being reported ten, twenty or thirty years later, when everything is installed and underground work has eaten us up until it appears in the form of a wound so difficult to heal… So it's exciting - and terribly instructive - to see them at work live.
- Because we obviously want to understand what makes Marion feel that adult life will turn out well. Marion enters the 3rd grade, never knew her father who died before his birth, grew up with a red best friend whom she seeks to protect as much as he protects her, and has padlocked her feelings for fear that they would overwhelm her. This story is like many others, and it is one that can lead to an adult life of depression: unless ...
- Because these mechanisms resemble, mutatis mutandis, those that Irvin Yalom has masterfully dissected in Et Nieztsche cried : Breuer can only help Nietzsche from the moment he turns the situation around by asking Nietzsche to help him. In My little stone heart , everything does not follow each other as if by magic, but advances under the effect of chain reactions which occur and have virtuous effects as soon as Marion knows how to grasp when someone needs her . And would that not always be true at any age?
- Because Lucile Boyer-Caron's pen is simple and crammed with find formulas, which are always very accurate: “I had not seen the enemy coming. It arose from within. ” "What I felt, what had to show through, was disgust, the feeling of being tossed around in the secrecy of others, of being the central character of a game of which I was the only one not to know rules and purpose. " “It was not romantic. It was terrifying. ” There is his humor. In the end, a superb success and a book to put in all hands!
- Because Lucile Caron-Boyer is not the author of a single book. In Crossing the storms , currently in self-publishing at Librinova, we find the universe of teenagers. But this time, the heroine is no longer a teenage girl built on sand in a reassuring world, but a solidly built teenage girl who faces a wavering world: the author has managed to both preserve her universe and renew her themes. What to look forward to a third book!
The essential in 2 minutes
The plot. Marion is a teenager built on sand, who must build herself pillars so as not to collapse. Lucile Caron-Boyer hands us a mirror to look at our story, or perhaps that of someone we know and whom we would like to support. What if this book helped us?
Characters. The characters in Lucile Caron-Boyer are teenagers. But she does not try to imitate them: she finds the teenager in her and it is this teenager who writes. From then on, all teens can identify with Marion, Tom and the others, whether they are this age today ... or that they were one day.
Places. The playground, the SVT class, Marion and Tom's bedroom, the kitchen ... and if you know other places that matter even more in your life, let me know!
The time. It's a novel published in 2018: so let's say that it happens in the 2010s. But it doesn't really matter, and above all, it doesn't prevent reflections on time which "flies more faster ”and birthdays, those big“ countdowns to death ”…
The author. Like Marie-Aude Murail, whom she admires, Lucile Caron-Boyer seeks to "deal with difficult subjects while always retaining a touch of lightness", as she confides in an interview with the website Déjàlu.fr which is organizing a competition for to earn his books. She had several lives before publishing her books: readers from 9 to 99 years old, discover it!
This book was read with a very pleasant mixture of lightness and gravity, by Marceline Bodier who organizes a highlight of this author on January 18 during the night of reading the website Déjàlu.fr on the theme of books that have rocked your childhood.
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