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Mélanie Francès was born in Paris, France, in 1972. She grew up in France, but lived for four years in New Delhi, India, as a child. As a college student, she discovered her gift for writing and developed an interest in the arts and American literature. She later moved to Montreal, Canada to pursue her graduate studies at Concordia University and obtained an M.A. Degree in English and Creative Writing. In 2001, she published her first chapbook of poetry, The World is in your Head, with Ginninderra Press in Australia. She now lives in Maryland where she is currently working on her first novel about the immigrant experience and the birth of the movies at the beginning of the century in the USA. She is the founder of the website "My Book Hunte Mélanie Francès was born in Paris, France, in 1972. She grew up in France, but lived for four years in New Delhi, India, as a child. As a college student, she discovered her gift for writing and developed an interest in the arts and American literature. She later moved to Montreal, Canada to pursue her graduate studies at Concordia University and obtained an M.A. Degree in English and Creative Writing. In 2001, she published her first chapbook of poetry, The World is in your Head, with Ginninderra Press in Australia. She now lives in Maryland where she is currently working on her first novel about the immigrant experience and the birth of the movies at the beginning of the century in the USA. She is the founder of the website "My Book Hunter". ...more
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to read for me these days.
Since I had my son Noah in 2015, my feverish days of non-stop reading and devouring books one after the other have long gone. My time is shared with this fiery (and often exhausting) little being, whose development and experience of life requires my attention and love with a ferocity and immediacy that is something to behold.
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| “And say that as I stood in the dim, quiet room with Anisa—there were few other visitors that afternoon—I sensed that the tiny stems and styles and petals surrounding us were vibrating imperceptibly, or maybe just perceptibly, from our footsteps and “And say that as I stood in the dim, quiet room with Anisa—there were few other visitors that afternoon—I sensed that the tiny stems and styles and petals surrounding us were vibrating imperceptibly, or maybe just perceptibly, from our footsteps and voices, that the little wires in the models could register even our breath, but also that the specimens were trembling from the exhalations and voices and footsteps of all the people who had ever been in their presence, still vibrating, too, from the journey by boat from Europe (how could the fragile things have survived such a trip in their velvet-lined cases?), vibrating with the street life of Dresden outside the workshop where the father and son sat softening tiny tubes and rods in a jet of flame. The flowers were recording instruments of exquisite sensitivity; their glass anthers captured someone pouring a glass of water, the turning of a page.”And here it is.The delicate, shapeshifting, echolocating, ever sensing, data-gathering novel of technology in the 21st century. “Transcription” is an enchantment, both in its simplicity and layers of understanding, in its acuity and puzzlement, in its depiction of how the world is now made of us and our devices.In 130 miraculous pages, everything - fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, memory, memorabilia, fiction and facts, the world pre and post-COVID, affiliations, art, transmission, past and future selves - is viewed through the lens (or magnifying glass) of our iPhones and iPads.Never before have I seen our technological devices portrayed so eloquently and precisely as Shakespearian characters in the play that is our little human life, at once soothing, (mis)guiding, teleporting, life-saving, incapacitating, numbing, elevating, alienating and community-building. A dream catcher of a book, with one foot in the present and one foot in the past, obsessed with the fragility of lives lived onscreen and offline, both in our heads and in the physical world. A glass flower of a book, surreal, unreal and very much real, “Transcription” is a recording instrument of exquisite sensitivity, attuned to all of our frequencies. So many ghosts in this machine. ...more | |
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| “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. The only accessory protesters wear these days that conveys any tone of seriousness are heavy-duty chemical face masks, designed to counter the onslaught of teargas disseminated from hooded men who stalk the perimeters of elementary schools, hospitals and churches on the days when they aren’t busy calling women bitches and shooting them dead.”~ Caro Claire Burke in The Guardian“You’re reading what?!” echo my literary fiction friends, lighting up my DM’s like fireflies in the summer grass. What can I say. I caved. I dipped my feet in the Zeitgeist. How much more delicious/genius/alluring could the premise be? A tradwife selling the fantasy of life in Yesteryear (a place and an idea) to her millions of followers, finds herself waking up one day in 1855 and having to contend with how life in said yesteryear actually felt like. Genius indeed.What follows is a thriller/satire/absurdist tale of the highest order, written with fury and acerbic bite, propulsive and unputdownable. Bookish crack cocaine. Halloween candy on overdrive. I came to this book partly because of how much I revere Caro Claire Burke’s incisive and ruthless takes on culture and politics in her podcast “Diabolical Lies”, where she deconstructs the times we are living in with clear eyes and absolute terror.While you won’t find too much in-depth character development here or even radically insightful commentary, this novel does feel like a very timely Trojan Horse and a (not so) delicate middle finger to the patriarchy. I’ll take that. Under the gloss of the mirrorball that is the “performance” of womanhood today, you will unearth a lot of psychosis, regression, repression and ultimately sadness. Cue all of the children who are left in the dust. ...more | |
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**Melanie**rated a book it was amazing  Milkman by Anna Burns |
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| “I think the lack of proper names adds to the atmosphere and tension in the book, to the sense of paranoia, the under-the-surface panic and unease, even if it also seems to offer an apparent protection to the characters of their real selves against t “I think the lack of proper names adds to the atmosphere and tension in the book, to the sense of paranoia, the under-the-surface panic and unease, even if it also seems to offer an apparent protection to the characters of their real selves against the surveillance world they are living in. Also, throughout the book there is a sense of an imposed collective mindset, with obedience to it being of more importance in terms of survival than individual autonomy and identity. The individual, for the sake of survival, is required to be subsumed into the collective and hence the narrator’s harmless behaviors – looking at the sky, reading-while-walking, going to a night class down the town, having a maybe-boyfriend instead of getting married at sixteen etc – are seen as huge rebellions which pose a threat to the status quo.”~ Anna Burns One of the most furiously alive books that I have ever read.If “Gliff” by Ali Smith and “Trespasses” by Louise Kennedy had a child, it would be the irreverent, idiosyncratic, inventive, street smart and perfectly unpredictable voice of 16-year old Middle Sister in this novel. With a sprinkle of James Joyce. The pull and breath and sass of this voice!By removing all names and common denominators from her story of living through the Troubles in late 70’s Northern Ireland, and choosing instead to inhabit a pure stream of consciousness - the last bastion of private life - to convey the absurdity, primal fears and violence of a society at war with itself, Anna Burns created a tornado uprooting everything in its path. Timothy Snyder tells us this at every turn: resistance to totalitarianism begins by protecting and asserting your own, individual, quirky and unique voice. Stand out. Push against the grain. Hope in “Milkman” is found in very simple things: reading while walking, the precision of words describing the colors of a sunset, assembling in sheds, learning a new language, burying a cat’s head. Beyond the pale is the badge of honor. One of my absolute favorite reads of recent years, “Milkman” was the storm at sea that my little dinghy did not see coming.A masterpiece. ...more | |
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| “And say that as I stood in the dim, quiet room with Anisa—there were few other visitors that afternoon—I sensed that the tiny stems and styles and petals surrounding us were vibrating imperceptibly, or maybe just perceptibly, from our footsteps and “And say that as I stood in the dim, quiet room with Anisa—there were few other visitors that afternoon—I sensed that the tiny stems and styles and petals surrounding us were vibrating imperceptibly, or maybe just perceptibly, from our footsteps and voices, that the little wires in the models could register even our breath, but also that the specimens were trembling from the exhalations and voices and footsteps of all the people who had ever been in their presence, still vibrating, too, from the journey by boat from Europe (how could the fragile things have survived such a trip in their velvet-lined cases?), vibrating with the street life of Dresden outside the workshop where the father and son sat softening tiny tubes and rods in a jet of flame. The flowers were recording instruments of exquisite sensitivity; their glass anthers captured someone pouring a glass of water, the turning of a page.”And here it is.The delicate, shapeshifting, echolocating, ever sensing, data-gathering novel of technology in the 21st century. “Transcription” is an enchantment, both in its simplicity and layers of understanding, in its acuity and puzzlement, in its depiction of how the world is now made of us and our devices.In 130 miraculous pages, everything - fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, memory, memorabilia, fiction and facts, the world pre and post-COVID, affiliations, art, transmission, past and future selves - is viewed through the lens (or magnifying glass) of our iPhones and iPads.Never before have I seen our technological devices portrayed so eloquently and precisely as Shakespearian characters in the play that is our little human life, at once soothing, (mis)guiding, teleporting, life-saving, incapacitating, numbing, elevating, alienating and community-building. A dream catcher of a book, with one foot in the present and one foot in the past, obsessed with the fragility of lives lived onscreen and offline, both in our heads and in the physical world. A glass flower of a book, surreal, unreal and very much real, “Transcription” is a recording instrument of exquisite sensitivity, attuned to all of our frequencies. So many ghosts in this machine. ...more | |
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Melanie made a comment onher reviewofThe Remembered Soldier  "@Ree Astonishing ending, isn’t it??" |
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| **Melanie**rated a book it was amazing Milkman by Anna Burns |
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| “I think the lack of proper names adds to the atmosphere and tension in the book, to the sense of paranoia, the under-the-surface panic and unease, even if it also seems to offer an apparent protection to the characters of their real selves against t “I think the lack of proper names adds to the atmosphere and tension in the book, to the sense of paranoia, the under-the-surface panic and unease, even if it also seems to offer an apparent protection to the characters of their real selves against the surveillance world they are living in. Also, throughout the book there is a sense of an imposed collective mindset, with obedience to it being of more importance in terms of survival than individual autonomy and identity. The individual, for the sake of survival, is required to be subsumed into the collective and hence the narrator’s harmless behaviors – looking at the sky, reading-while-walking, going to a night class down the town, having a maybe-boyfriend instead of getting married at sixteen etc – are seen as huge rebellions which pose a threat to the status quo.”~ Anna Burns One of the most furiously alive books that I have ever read.If “Gliff” by Ali Smith and “Trespasses” by Louise Kennedy had a child, it would be the irreverent, idiosyncratic, inventive, street smart and perfectly unpredictable voice of 16-year old Middle Sister in this novel. With a sprinkle of James Joyce. The pull and breath and sass of this voice!By removing all names and common denominators from her story of living through the Troubles in late 70’s Northern Ireland, and choosing instead to inhabit a pure stream of consciousness - the last bastion of private life - to convey the absurdity, primal fears and violence of a society at war with itself, Anna Burns created a tornado uprooting everything in its path. Timothy Snyder tells us this at every turn: resistance to totalitarianism begins by protecting and asserting your own, individual, quirky and unique voice. Stand out. Push against the grain. Hope in “Milkman” is found in very simple things: reading while walking, the precision of words describing the colors of a sunset, assembling in sheds, learning a new language, burying a cat’s head. Beyond the pale is the badge of honor. One of my absolute favorite reads of recent years, “Milkman” was the storm at sea that my little dinghy did not see coming.A masterpiece. ...more | |
| May 05, 2026 05:51PM · 14 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview ofMilkman by Anna Burns. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Milkman by Anna Burns | |
| **Melanie**rated a book really liked it Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke |
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| “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. The only accessory protesters wear these days that conveys any tone of seriousness are heavy-duty chemical face masks, designed to counter the onslaught of teargas disseminated from hooded men who stalk the perimeters of elementary schools, hospitals and churches on the days when they aren’t busy calling women bitches and shooting them dead.”~ Caro Claire Burke in The Guardian“You’re reading what?!” echo my literary fiction friends, lighting up my DM’s like fireflies in the summer grass. What can I say. I caved. I dipped my feet in the Zeitgeist. How much more delicious/genius/alluring could the premise be? A tradwife selling the fantasy of life in Yesteryear (a place and an idea) to her millions of followers, finds herself waking up one day in 1855 and having to contend with how life in said yesteryear actually felt like. Genius indeed.What follows is a thriller/satire/absurdist tale of the highest order, written with fury and acerbic bite, propulsive and unputdownable. Bookish crack cocaine. Halloween candy on overdrive. I came to this book partly because of how much I revere Caro Claire Burke’s incisive and ruthless takes on culture and politics in her podcast “Diabolical Lies”, where she deconstructs the times we are living in with clear eyes and absolute terror.While you won’t find too much in-depth character development here or even radically insightful commentary, this novel does feel like a very timely Trojan Horse and a (not so) delicate middle finger to the patriarchy. I’ll take that. Under the gloss of the mirrorball that is the “performance” of womanhood today, you will unearth a lot of psychosis, regression, repression and ultimately sadness. Cue all of the children who are left in the dust. ...more | |
| May 04, 2026 06:39PM · 13 likes · like · see review | |
| **Melanie**rated a book it was amazing So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell |
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| Speechless... That was extraordinary.(24 hours later)I knew I was in for something special when I heard Richard Ford saying that this was one of his all-time favourite books but I didn't expect this level of amazement and mastery as I zipped through Speechless... That was extraordinary.(24 hours later)I knew I was in for something special when I heard Richard Ford saying that this was one of his all-time favourite books but I didn't expect this level of amazement and mastery as I zipped through these 150 pages on a rainy October Sunday. How did someone manage to pack so much humanity in such a tiny work of art? The last time I felt such mind blowing concision was when I read "The Great Gatsby" for the first time. Every single sentence contains an entire world of thought and imagery and sensory detail that burns into your mind like a red-hot iron. The entire story is eerily seamless, moving like water from point of view to point of view, gathering speed like a storm about to burst. Rarely have I felt such emotional rawness and truths expressed in so few words. This is a true feat of the heart and mind.I was also lucky enough to read this masterpiece with a most luminous and intelligent introduction by Ann Patchett. Obviously enamoured with this piece of work, she writes the following:""So Long, See You Tomorrow" is structured not like a novel, but like the inner workings of the human brain. There are no surprises, only a constant circling of facts, the question of how things might have gone differently, the familiar retreat into personal experience. The narrator puts himself into characters he has no connection to, imagines their days, imagines the dog, without apology or explanation. Why has he stepped into someone else's life? Because this is how we try to make sense of the things we cannot possibly understand. It is an exercise in compassion."Ann Patchett chose this novel as one to pass on to future generations. So would I. ...more | |
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| **Melanie**rated a book really liked it Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke |
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| “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. “In 2026, there is no coherent symbol of feminist resistance. There was no Women’s March on the day of T’s second inauguration. At protests against the administration, the handmaid costume is still present, but her power is significantly diminished. The only accessory protesters wear these days that conveys any tone of seriousness are heavy-duty chemical face masks, designed to counter the onslaught of teargas disseminated from hooded men who stalk the perimeters of elementary schools, hospitals and churches on the days when they aren’t busy calling women bitches and shooting them dead.”~ Caro Claire Burke in The Guardian“You’re reading what?!” echo my literary fiction friends, lighting up my DM’s like fireflies in the summer grass. What can I say. I caved. I dipped my feet in the Zeitgeist. How much more delicious/genius/alluring could the premise be? A tradwife selling the fantasy of life in Yesteryear (a place and an idea) to her millions of followers, finds herself waking up one day in 1855 and having to contend with how life in said yesteryear actually felt like. Genius indeed.What follows is a thriller/satire/absurdist tale of the highest order, written with fury and acerbic bite, propulsive and unputdownable. Bookish crack cocaine. Halloween candy on overdrive. I came to this book partly because of how much I revere Caro Claire Burke’s incisive and ruthless takes on culture and politics in her podcast “Diabolical Lies”, where she deconstructs the times we are living in with clear eyes and absolute terror.While you won’t find too much in-depth character development here or even radically insightful commentary, this novel does feel like a very timely Trojan Horse and a (not so) delicate middle finger to the patriarchy. I’ll take that. Under the gloss of the mirrorball that is the “performance” of womanhood today, you will unearth a lot of psychosis, regression, repression and ultimately sadness. Cue all of the children who are left in the dust. ...more | |
| May 04, 2026 07:45AM · 13 likes · like · see review |
“I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with electric energy. Lines that sometimes cross one other, or follow in parallel ellipses without ever touching, or meet up for one brief moment and then part. A universe of lines crisscrossing in the void.”
― Melanie Frances
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained
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