Only a few days before 2011 the opportunity to return to the dying years. Let's start with a selection of my favorite books read this year, nothing to do with their year of issue for most, I read a lot of old books.
1 - Stories of Alfred Hitchcock abominable.
Not really it is not Hitchcock who wrote this book, he only met the news of various authors. It is, therefore, a collection of fantasy stories, however, quite in the spirit of the director. Macabre, supernatural or just cruel each story is tasty.
In this collection you will find and the story of a waltz that never ends, wax figures of too realistic, loves creatures of parasites or retributive.
abominably perfect. This book has just restored the taste of writing.
I bought this book to Emmaus in Brussels, he did not pay mine but the title intrigued me. I have absolutely not been disappointed. It is likewise a collection of short stories, may be less fantastic that "shocking story", it is nonetheless surprising, dark, strange ... Totally hilarious and enjoyable, this book, as its name suggests flirting with love, madness and death, if not all three at once.
3 - The herbarium fantastic Lionel Camille Renversade & Hignard
Subtitled "An Inquiry into the Botanical strange yet true, "this book is really more a case, we plunged into the files of a certain Cornelius Irenaeus, passionate botanist, which brought together all the strange phenomena related to plants. Some plants magic beans from vampires by those who cry, 27 volumes to the former, adorned with prints, handwritten letters, we embark in this wonderful world.
4 - The book of the dead Lizzie Saint-September
Released in the chafing
edition, the model and photographer Lizzie, we propose in this collection of photographs, make a good time, at the time it was customary to keep a last memory of our dead. Thus, friends and strangers, have lent the game for a few moments, the time for Lizzie to capture this ephemeral and premature death. Tribute poetic and melancholic images post-mortem, the cold beauty of death but also to the supposed life lived, all in an old photo style cabinet.
5 - Dragons and Chimeras Pierre Dubois & Camille Renversade
Trip Young Gaston Renversade embedded with several companions in a fabulous expedition in search of dragons and then a second time, chimeras. Written as a diary, history tells the adventures of the explorers of the strange, illustrated with photographs of "time", drawings, cards or letters. An exciting journey.
6 - Monsters, a bestiary of strange Christopher Dell
If you forget its bright green cover (but not serious!?) That could shine in the night but no, this book is a gem monstrous. A very large number of images are gathered here, to trace the history of monsters in painting and drawing. Demons, Dragons, kraken, or ghosts, haunt the cultural bestiary.
7 - Once upon a time ... Benjamin Lacombe
Wonder Pop-up, clever and poetic, illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe. Unfortunately soon over, this book provides eight tables in volume on the tales of our childhood. Peter Pan, Alice Beard or blue, spring from the pages to come and touch. Looks sad, attention to detail to explore, a beautiful cover and first page.
8 - Dark Spring by Unica Zürn
loan from a friend I read in one go in a train, in front of an old gentleman with a mustache. Strange, strange.
adorably perverse this novel traces the story of a girl who discovers desire.
9 to 10 small insects Pianina Vincent & Davide Cali
In this comic, ten small insects are invited for the weekend on the island turtle, an island away from everything. But each coming for a different reason, they soon discover that this is a hoax and that, above all, someone seems to want their lives ...
a bit too sloppy and very slight story, this book still appears in my list for its few passages if sighted and too little discussed topic. Everybody makes love, about a young woman who does not love, where everything and everyone only thinks of this.
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