Further Amazon.com review published!

I've just had a further book review published on Amazon.com, i.e. a review, in English, of the French-language novel L'Evangile de Jimmy by Didier van Cauwelaert.

Also, can I recommend two brilliant French-language blogs which i've just discovered in the last few days, and upon which I am currently totally hooked, viz. www.misterbitch.net and www.bradshaw.over-blog.net . The former is written by a 21 year-old gay guy, Etienne, aka Mister Bitch, originally from Perpignan, but currently training to be a hairdresser in Paris and on the point of getting married (well, to engage in a Pacte de solidarité civile) in December to his boyfriend Sacha. Good for them. The latter blog is by a thirty year-old gay guy, Bradshaw. Both blogs make for compulsive reading. For me, they are quintessentially French roman autobiographique in theme. Think Annie Ernaux and her troubling levels of self-disclosure.

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