Tomatoes & Books
Somehow like August’s weather, dull days those days : working is VERY boring (mostly because I’ll go on sun&sea holidays next week !), friends are not around for various reasons (I must thus be satisfied with e-mails from faraway ones), and my little extra-professional activities like volley-ball (oh how I miss jumping and shooting the ball !), are suspended until September, bah ! :op
So my top moments of the last week were caused by this little shopping of some food (mainly tomatoes so) followed by 2 books bought at Fnac. Was really happy with the prospect to cook some lunch for my parents came to visit me on August 15th - a nonworking day here - and to have found 2 interesting books just after that :o).
One of these was a new published book, by Vartan Berberian Le figuier de mon père (the fig tree of my father). It’s the story of VB, a French-Armenian born in France 1926 from survivors of Genocide. A nice simple work about strength of the will and dedicated to the author’s family, à la Mayrig (it’s the French –Armenian film maker Henri Verneuil’s autobiography) or à la Pagnol (the French version of those kind of family apology), ending with a good sum up of the genocide’s story. Was comforting to read some critical saying that after reading the book, you just end to share the same anger about Turcs !
The other book is a compilation of short texts from Albert Camus named L’été (the summer). Chosen when seen - 1st - because it’s Camus : a strong author, orinag la chute or l’envers et l’endroit ; even if he's too much intellectual for me, still impressed by his opinions and work that I understood better thanks to a high school teacher (who would also deserve an apology, but it’s not the place and I’m not Pagnol)
and also chosen 2nd – because its title : real summer is just gone from here ! In Paris area, and I think most of France, summer has passed since the end of the heat wave in August. Anyway, this book I haven’t finished yet, but already enjoyed Camus’ burning description of Algeria’s desert town, Oran ; never been there, but could feel the mood of the city thanks to his lines, and maybe because of some common eastern background. The rest of the texts seem to be more philosophical, and rather appreciable for me those days.
Found on the web : a cute story about Armenia’s map. In order to make Armenia’s geography more easy for children, children discover that it designs the profile of a tale’s hero, Anahit (see the map to the bottom of the following page http://www.netarmenie.com/historiettes/armenie_Anahit/index.php). Was really charming, in more of being an excellent teaching tool for a geographic zero like me…
Oh, some odd news on French TV press these days : 700 French tourists for Turkey been blocked on the airports for a few days now, because of booking problems between their travel agency and the airline company. Some were blocked in Turkey (Istanbul or Izmir) and couldn’t find planes for coming back France, but most surprising is the ones that were stuck in Paris Airport : after 2 days passed at the airport, they still wanted to go to their holidays in Turkey !! Eh ?!?! Ok holidays are always impatiently expected, but ... :~
On this, ciao !
So my top moments of the last week were caused by this little shopping of some food (mainly tomatoes so) followed by 2 books bought at Fnac. Was really happy with the prospect to cook some lunch for my parents came to visit me on August 15th - a nonworking day here - and to have found 2 interesting books just after that :o).
One of these was a new published book, by Vartan Berberian Le figuier de mon père (the fig tree of my father). It’s the story of VB, a French-Armenian born in France 1926 from survivors of Genocide. A nice simple work about strength of the will and dedicated to the author’s family, à la Mayrig (it’s the French –Armenian film maker Henri Verneuil’s autobiography) or à la Pagnol (the French version of those kind of family apology), ending with a good sum up of the genocide’s story. Was comforting to read some critical saying that after reading the book, you just end to share the same anger about Turcs !
The other book is a compilation of short texts from Albert Camus named L’été (the summer). Chosen when seen - 1st - because it’s Camus : a strong author, orinag la chute or l’envers et l’endroit ; even if he's too much intellectual for me, still impressed by his opinions and work that I understood better thanks to a high school teacher (who would also deserve an apology, but it’s not the place and I’m not Pagnol)
and also chosen 2nd – because its title : real summer is just gone from here ! In Paris area, and I think most of France, summer has passed since the end of the heat wave in August. Anyway, this book I haven’t finished yet, but already enjoyed Camus’ burning description of Algeria’s desert town, Oran ; never been there, but could feel the mood of the city thanks to his lines, and maybe because of some common eastern background. The rest of the texts seem to be more philosophical, and rather appreciable for me those days.
Found on the web : a cute story about Armenia’s map. In order to make Armenia’s geography more easy for children, children discover that it designs the profile of a tale’s hero, Anahit (see the map to the bottom of the following page http://www.netarmenie.com/historiettes/armenie_Anahit/index.php). Was really charming, in more of being an excellent teaching tool for a geographic zero like me…
Oh, some odd news on French TV press these days : 700 French tourists for Turkey been blocked on the airports for a few days now, because of booking problems between their travel agency and the airline company. Some were blocked in Turkey (Istanbul or Izmir) and couldn’t find planes for coming back France, but most surprising is the ones that were stuck in Paris Airport : after 2 days passed at the airport, they still wanted to go to their holidays in Turkey !! Eh ?!?! Ok holidays are always impatiently expected, but ... :~
On this, ciao !
posted by Jilda at 10:56 PM
2 Comments:
Many of the British, French and German tourists are of Turkish descent. I'm not saying that there aren't any Europeans who don't vacation in Turkey, but there are around 7 million Turks in the European Union, so you can never tell.
True, but with or without turkish origins, after such problems it's surprising to stay for the continuation; probably constrainst of real life systems, "ocean of perplexity"...
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