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Anne-So "Echos de Mots", youth literary blogger and contributor to the
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Books reading group, recommends
Bleue comme l'été
by Marie Lenne-Fouquet, published on June 1, 2022 by Éditions Sarbacane.
His favorite quote:
What she likes that, being shaken by beauty!
It's always bigger than her.
It's as if all the emotions that constantly ran through her, with which she manages to live with more or less ease, had, in the face of art, the right to exist all together, to explode without damage under the skin.
Beauty has always helped Prudence make decisions.
Why this book?
Because
Blue Like Summer
could be the perfect read
to start your summer!
In this contemporary young adult by Marie Lenne-Fouquet, the reader will meet Prudence, a hypersensitive young woman who is about to experience an overwhelming summer.
When she has just failed a photo contest and was refused the school of her dreams, the young woman must also face the facts: the man she loves spends his time to flee her.
On a whim, she then decides to accept an amazing summer job.
Because this three-month mission consists of following Dylan,
a passionate surfer, and taking many pictures of him in order to feed his Instagram account.
If living in a van with a man older than her and often confusing seems at first a real punishment for the young woman, the nomadic life and the encounters made on the way could well surprise her.
Because I sat down to read the first chapter of this novel
and eventually found myself reading it all at once, unable to put down such a fresh, funny, well-written read.
The author juggles with talent between the insecurities and anxieties of her heroine, the slices of laughter between girlfriends, broken hearts and life-changing encounters.
During our reading, we forget that the characters are only paper and we could almost feel the iodine and the sun on their skins.
Because
Bleue comme l'été
is above all a meeting
that allows our heroine to take control of her life and her dreams.
Her evolution over the course of the novel is both powerful and subtle, and her quest for love, identity, life, is a timeless and universal theme.
This novel is also an ode to the sea, to surfing, to summer and to freedom and makes you want to leave everything behind to travel the roads of France in a van in good company.
Because
Bleue comme l'été
is a page-turner
in which each page provokes an emotion in you.
Embark with the heroine on a journey that smells of holidays and wax and meet terribly endearing colorful characters.
A detour to the southern beaches guaranteed without sunburn!
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
After a series of disappointments, Prudence agrees to follow a surfer for a summer and live in his van.
His job is to photograph the man for his social networks.
Surprisingly, she just might learn a lot about herself during a hectic summer.
Characters.
Prudence is a young woman who often lets herself be invaded by her anxieties and her superstition.
Dylan is a man passionate about surfing who is superficial and sometimes insensitive at first sight but who will reveal himself to be quite different.
Places.
The novel takes place in France, from La Rochelle to Biarritz via Biscarosse.
The time.
The story takes place over the course of a summer, when her college history lessons have ended and the heroine discovers that she is not accepted into the school of her dreams.
The author.
After studying modern literature, Marie Lenne-Fouquet became a school teacher then a specialist teacher for students with special educational needs and now an author.
She is the author of around fifteen books for children and teenagers.
This book was read with
pleasure by Anne-So Echos de Mots, blogger specializing in children's and teenage literature.
“For me, reading can be as much a personal pleasure in which one runs to take refuge as an excuse to discuss and meet other readers.
I am a lover of words always interested in new discoveries.
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