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"Alone in the Dark" by Paul Auster

It was a moment that I had read a book by P aul Auster, then it is with some pleasure that I immersed myself in this book that I quickly devoured.

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"Alone in the dark, I turn and turn the world into my head while trying to overcome an insomnia , one more, one more sleepless night in the Great American Desert. " Thus begins the story of August Brill, retired literary critic, who, forced into immobility by a car accident, settled in Vermont, with her daughter Miriam, which fails to heal the wound that it has already imposed a divorce yet five years old, and who comes to collect his own daughter, Katya, devastated by the death in Iraq, in atrocious conditions, a young man with whom she had broken, thus precipitating, she believes, the latter's departure for Baghdad ... To escape the concerns of the present and the weight of memories, inglorious, in which assail the house of lost souls, Brill takes refuge in fictions of different sorts which he adorns countless sleepless nights. That night, he staged a parallel world where Sept. 11 would not have occurred and where America is not at war against Iraq but in the throes of a bitter civil war. However, while the night progresses, imagination and reality gradually come to overlap as to read and tell each other, to question the responsibility of the individual vis-à-vis its own existence as vis-à-vis history . By placing this war to cause a disturbance capable of inventing the "catastrophe" of a fiction which abolishes the laws of causality, Paul Auster establishes in this powerful allegory, a link between the disarray of consciousness contemporary American and the tireless and fruitful inquiry that continues on the path that the strangeness to happen, the novel invention.

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It is with pleasure that I went back and drowned in the writing of Paul Auster . And with even more interest that this book was a book that attracted me well when it debuted in 2009 Actes Sud and enjoyed a beautiful cover of a beautiful red flash. A title that should be released in paperback in the collection of Babel same publisher. Finally, it will be soon I think.

strange adventure book crossed. Dreamlike tale of a side that tells us the story of an America in Brick uchronic (the word is out! see this post for a definition) that September 11 never happened and where the U.S. is not at war against Iraq but against itself. A civil war broke out because of the taking of independence of a part of this cluster of states known as rude American. Brick and one day finds himself in a hole, he also knows how he got there. But hardly has there be helped out of this place, be entrusted with the mission to kill a character: a guy somewhere dream everything is happening and that it would stop is eliminated probably all this strange and unjust war.

In parallel, following August Brill, retired literary critic and stuck in bed because of a leg useless. He lives with his daughter, who is trying to digest his divorce, and her granddaughter, who is trying to digest the murder of her ex-boyfriend, and her rehashing his past, the love of his life and many other things . And during this strange night, this dark and insomniac, Brill will dream of adventure and character of Brick. He will rethink his own life, questioning, rethinking his family, talk with her granddaughter, and more.

Once again, I got carried away by the pen, deceptively simple, Paul Auster . This American author comes to creating characters always engaging with that little something extraordinary that makes you want to know everything. Its alternate history dream slid in the history of this family, Paul Auster offers a fiction in the fiction that is not free by explaining the delusions of literary Philip K. Dick . It offers us an atmosphere that is not without either his book reminds "In the scriptorium" . But still, even though I read the book quickly and with pleasure, enjoying his writing with a happiness found, it will remain perhaps not his best novel. However, if the book released in paperback in Babel, feel still not (re) discover Paul Auster .


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so for the Second Reading Winter Challenge Time Travel, Literary Challenge whose theme is the alternate history.

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• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Actes Sud (January 5, 2009)
• Collection: Novels , New

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"The controller of Nuremberg" by Thomas Day

A little book at the lowest price. The opportunity to rediscover Thomas Day who had left me with a small memory "The Way of the Sword" while its new in the anthology "Back on the horizon" fooled me well ( chronic here). A very nice text that "The automatic Nuremberg .

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"Am I a soul, Father? "That is the question that Melchior Hauser, the famous automaton chess player, wants to ask his creator, Victor Hauser. The Russian court in the Jewish quarter of Nuremberg, the London fog to the heats of Africa, he moved to search of its origins, but the search could it surprises ... Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic campaigns, an initiatory journey to cross genres to enter the world of Thomas Day.

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the price of 2 euros a book, it does not hesitate long. And as stated here earlier, in his new anthology "Back on the horizon" fooled me good. So, this small format gave me the opportunity to rediscover the French author. For the next time maybe it will be a longer distance here because the story like in 120 pages. A format that is commonly referred to new, especially that this text in its first version appeared in the Bifrost No. 42 in 2006, while for the same number of pages others are novel. It's your choice, it is certain that he holds in one book.
Thomas Day offers us a nice little alternate history, a first draft which allows me to engage Winter Time Challenge. But if we are in a alternate history is that there 's been a moment when everything changes relative to history as we know. We're in an alternate history to our own, and the point of divergence this is the beginning of the 19th century. In this context it Napoleon had not lost at Waterloo and he even managed to invade Russia.

It is in this period is around 1830 and around. Melchior Hauser is an automaton, a gifted chess player of course, but provided with intelligence. Even a soul? In any case of a consciousness of itself. Still, he wants to meet his father, his creator, because he wants to know more about our origins automaton with a conscience. And the way he will continue to recognize, as well as the importance in business, while continuing to question himself while observing the world.

Besides this automaton we follow Balthazar Hauser, a pure spirit. Finally pure, not because of materiality, but conscious level, it is more of a vengeful killer than anything else running his desire of poetic justice here and there to kill his brother Kaspar Hauser, the orphan Europe (an article about it on Wikipedia ).

We will follow these two entities, one mechanical, the other ethereal, until their final encounter. Along the way there would be questions that remain unanswered, which is not so bad, and we observe the world through two other ways to perceive things.

A short novel, then, is a stretched version of the story published in Bifrost. A very nice text, which tends to prove that Thomas Day is a good novelist. A book I recommend to all curious that the author is none other than the pseudonym of Gilles Dumay , the collection manager Moons Ink Denoël editions.


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First Reading so for the Winter Time Travel Challenge, challenge literary theme for the alternate history.

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• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Editions Gallimard (January 3, 2008)
• Collection: Folio

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"Sansalina" by Nicolas Jaillet

It's still fun to read a thriller from time to time. Admittedly, this is not what is most on this blog but with a little luck, we found more in 2011. In any case, reading "Sansalina" was a very pleasant reading.

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Pablo Zorfi goes wrong. His only daily killings, kidnappings and betrayals. Mexico in the 20s, brothels run at the bottom, away from dust and Pancho Villa mustache. The street child Sansalina is now the master of the city. But he became ill as a rattlesnake. His best friends terrorize. He has only one solution to convince himself that he still has a future: Dolores review. Touching her skin. The young woman breathes freedom. Nobody tells him what to do. She forgot Sansalina, his violence and his men. Dolores also had a childhood dream, for which she has sacrificed everything. She founded a library. The day that dream explodes like a vulgar matchbox, another battle begins.

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This is perhaps not the best thriller I read in my life, but like any book of its kind, it reads quickly and well. It embarks easily, and neither saw nor knew we're in another country, Mexico, and another time, years 20. So successful challenge to this book, because we left very quickly carried away by the whirlwind black.

Adventures of Mexican thugs forces, we imagine them with beautiful mustache and a blazing sun above his head. All with an air of tough and looks of gunmen. Well enough to dive into another world that the U.S. thriller. This is not to offend, because it leaves the scope of a film noir atmosphere of the kind just suggest. Found almost a western of the coup with music by Sergio Leone in the background, of course, all the ingredients are there: the Mexican gangsters, small towns and dry sunny delivered into the hands of the gangsters of the era and corner, at the prostitutes tempered character, etc.. It is violent, but not so much by the acts, murders finally being rare, as the mood that permeates this book. It's dark, hopeless and dead ends! One quickly realizes that this will not end in happy endings, but is this really what we expect from this kind of book? Of course not!

style Nicolas Jaillet is quite sharp, with a short and punchy phrasing, does ant not lose unnecessary circumlocutions. Yet he manages to give us a more credible atmosphere of black, alternating throughout the book between past and present, and traveling between the youth of these gangsters and their lives and decay present a unique decor: the beginning of Mexico the 20th century.

Finally a nice book, maybe not revolutionary but which benefits from an original setting and treatment of the story well found. A book that will give you the distraction of the scenery, and some dark days for a late night. All that we can expect anything from a thriller!

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10 years of racing.

following the evolution of my first 10 years of running
(hoping there will be many others ...).

This small balance does not claim to "grandstanding" remain modest, but to evaluate my progress and above all to save my files.

2001

• CALGA :
- First contact with the world running : Virton, January 28, 2001. Circuit 5 km walker.
- First race Châtillon, February 11 - 5.6 km - 30'37
24 races in 5 km (18 ^e / 47 in the final standings) + 3 races in 10 km + 10 5 km off challenge = 37 races.
I hear about things which were then completely unknown: half marathon, marathon ...

My first jersey with "10km"

• First Organization of my race "Allure Libre (6 and 11 km), in collaboration with the Table Tennis, October outside challenge (87 starters)
• In consultation with some old briscards of Gait Free, was born the idea of a "Marathon Gaume," on tour "kind". Real marathoners, hardcore, we have discouraged: "A marathon in the woods, it will never work! . The idea was eventually abandoned ...
A highlight boxes today.
TOTAL km race (excluding training): 200 (approx)

2002

• CALGA : passing the 10 km - 28 races (45e/105) + 12 = 40 strokes off Chall
• First half marathons: Frassem (01h48'50) and Tintigny (01h 43'04)
Meeting with Martine, who will be (and still is ...) my "partner" faithful my workouts and my first big race.
• First big race : Sedan-Charleville ( October ) - 24.3 km (2h 03 '46) •
2 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October) (157 starters)
The idea grew to our first marathon ...
TOTAL km race : 466

2003

My challenge will be the Paris marathon in April. Serious training all winter (cold enough ...). •
CALGA : 27 races (58 e / 109) + 4 = 31 strokes off Chall
• 2 semi : Beckerich (01h 39 ') and Florenville-Chameleux (01h 36'25)
• Big races:
- Sedan-Charleville ( October ) (1h 57' 52)
- first marathon: PARIS (April ) in 04h 02 '. A very good memories!

Left: Martine (in red). I'm with the white headband ...

• 3 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ) (193 starters)
Note: an interruption of two weeks for a little tendinitis in his right tibia due to a lack of moisture in the race. At the time, I never drank while running, I did not know that hydration (water :-) ... was very important. This will be my only injury.
TOTAL km race : 418

2004

• CALGA : 28 races (37 e / 112) + 11 = 39 out Chall • racing
2 seedlings : Tintigny (01h 37 '41) and Hussigny (01h 41')
• First race "nature" ( there was no talk yet of "trail", which was totally unaware of the existence ) in the Belgian Ardennes:
- Crests SPA ( March ) - 21 km (01h 55 '20)

My first "profile" racing

- marathon nature of the rock (1 e edition of June ) (04h 30'16) . I meet my first big calf cramps .

No medal but a degree.

• Other: Marathon BRUSSELS (October 10 ) (3h 37 '29) •
4 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ) (219 starters)
km race TOTAL: 537

2005

• CALGA : 27 races (37 ^e / 97) + some non Chall = approx 35 races •
Discovery Challenge Delhalle (also races "Nature"):
- Forges (Habay) ( June) - 19 km
- The Ardennes (Louette) (July ) - 20 km (01h 47 ')
- Descent the Lesse (Houyet Dinant) (August ) - 21 km (01h 46 ')
• Other:
- marathon ROME ( March 13) (04h 10'). My first race with the camera ...

Arrive at the Coliseum.

- Crests Spa ( March 20) (02h 16 ')
- 20 km from Bastogne ( May ) ((01h 43')
- marathon nature of the rock ( June ) (04h 30 '42). Accompanying Florence, who sent me on this adventure of running. I owed him that right!
- AMSTERDAM Marathon (October ) (03h 28 '35) . My best time! (and who will ...) •
5 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ) (220 runners)
Note: that year, I accompanied David in these exercises regularly for the Marathon des Sables (240 km in 6 days in the Moroccan desert, it will finish). This will have a small influence for the future ....
TOTAL km race : 577

2006

• CALGA : 27 races (42 e / 107) + approx 10 off = Chall approx 37 races
• Other:
- 3 seedlings : Beckerich (May ) (01h 40 ') - Chameleux ( June ) (01h 34') - Hussigny ( October ) (01h 50 ')
- 1 stage of the Ultra Marathon The Translorraine (140 km in 4 days in our region) ( April): Florenville-Virton - 33 km (03h 15 ')
- 2 Delhalle: Forges ( June) and the Ardennes ( July )
- MAAS Marathon Meuse (Affected-Masstricht) (May ) (03h 32 ')
- marathon BEAUJOLAIS ( November ) (03h 49' 18). must withstand the ongoing festivities. ... What a feeling!

First edition, serious version.

• Prime RAID Adventure: X-CAPE Trophy (Florenville) (August ) raid one day by a team of 4 (Meuse4 The team: Vanessa Pierre-Laurence Bernard), VTT Kayak-Career Daring Run & Bike. (9 ^e on 17 teams). A great adventure and a good laugh!

Stone - Vanessa - Laurence - Bernard

• 6 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ) (213 starters)
TOTAL km race : 608

2007

• CALGA : 27 races (30 ^e / 87) + just one or the other off-Chall = approx 30 races
• First distance "ULTRA" (more than the marathon distance (42 )): The Translorraine ( April), Torgny-Villers, 50 km (with the rise the citadel of Montmedy) (06h 30 '). If the course was superb, I do not keep especially good memories of this "ultra" distance, that made the last 7 miles slow, full of cramps! Still, I'll do the last step the next day, Florenville-Virton, 34 km (03h 12 ').
First encounter with Isabelle. ...
• Other:
- Crests Spa ( March ) (01h 56 '39)
- marathon VIENNA (Aus) (April ) (03h 44' 47)
- The Ardennes (July )
- first "trail" (race bearing that name, not controlled ...): Jamoigne , Valley Semois Vierre ( July), 28.5 km (02h 35 ')
- discovery orientation : Trail of Stones Legend , Hotton ( July), 38 km in CO by 35 ° C (8am!), in a small team. It was not at all in what we sailed, we tasted!

Let us not be grouped to lose ...

- Run & Bike Nobressart ( August ) with David, 17 km (01h 12 '- 13 th / 63)
- X-CAPE Trophy (Florenville) ( August) on two days this time. "The Disoriented" (Peter, Maria, Isabelle, Bernard) (14 ^e / 21). Very good moments of madness! And a nice galley orientation night. It was decided to upgrade with Isabelle guidance.

Maria Isabelle Bernard-Pierre

- 20 km from Bastogne ( September )
- first race in disguise (a monk): The Caldéniacienne (Toul) ( September), 21 km (01h 49 ')

It was not too difficult to do the "Zouave"

- marathon ZEALAND (Netherlands) (October ) (04h 33 '). A crazy thing! On beaches and in the high dunes of this beautiful region!

Pfffff! Not easy, this stuff!

- marathon BEAUJOLAIS ( November ) (05h 20 '). It is back, but festive this time disguised as monks to carry supplies to plonk! Belgian monks have marked this issue forever!

Version "not serious"!

• 7 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ) (237 starters)
Note: This this year that David's friend offered me the accompany the Marathon des Sables (see 2005), telling me able to do so. Thing that I refuse categorically, not feeling at all to the task. Some time later, it will be "dependent" on a course "softer": 86 km Mont Blanc! "But there is mad! NEVER, I will do more than the marathon distance! " ... Two months later I was enrolled in the CCC (Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix), 98 km around Mont Blanc. ... One should never say never. Except .... Never saw the mountain in my life!
TOTAL km race : 661

2008

So there I boarded the Adventure Mont Blanc. Along David, Didier and Jacques. My season will be oriented according to this "huge" challenge where we will have to seriously prepare (but how ...?). It is also the first time I've heard of "Ascent and Descent (D + and D-)" •
CALGA : 19 races (29 ^e / 85). My participation in this challenge is reduced gradually, as more and more about other races.
• Other:
- Wanter Trail Mersch (GDLux) ( February) - 37 km - 04h 20 '
- BARCELONA Marathon (March ) (03h 49 ')
- Elchertoise the Trail, Nobressart ( an e edition -March) 24 km (2h 22' - 62e/122)
- First raid orientation : BABA Raid (1 e-edition May 3 to 4), raid multisport team orientation 2 (with Pierre-The Confused) on two days, region-VLESSART Anlier forest. We will finish dead last with honors from the podium. It was completely planted by putting the card upside down, lost, 5 km detour and a huge time of lost. ... But a very good experience! - 20 km from Brussels ( May 25), the team SNCB (01h 39 ')
- nature ROCK Marathon (June 1 ) (04h 47'). Deliberately slow and long with the first use of sticks in preparation for the Mt Blanc.
- Run & Bike Nobressart ( June 6 ) with Florence, 17 km (01h 22 '- 43 ^e / 85)
- First discovery of the mountain : recognition of Mont Blanc ( early July ) history to see what lies ahead. Hard, hard! But I remain confident, unlike David who questioned ...
- Transforestière ( July 13), raid two days orientation in teams of two (with Isabelle), Nafraiture-Vresse/Semois region. (11 ^e classés/17 teams). almost twice 6h race, we did not expect so much. Very good memories in a beautiful and very hilly.
- St Leger Semi ( July ) (01h 39 ')
- The Ardennes (Louette) (26 July ) - 21 km (01h 50 ')
- Ardennes Trail Rambrouch (GDLux) ( August 2) - 42 km (04h 524)
- CCC Mt Blanc first race Mountain ( 28-29 August) 98 km-5600 D + m - max 26h 30 (25h 56 '53-1 our first small group of 4). This challenge succeeded, which will give me the urge to create my blog to share and benefit others in this extraordinary adventure. See articles
race - photos - impressions.

The tears in the eyes of happiness!

Note: from here, each title race underlined refers to the full article by clicking on it.

And my season does not end here:
- Nocturnal Escapade , Chaudfontaine ( October 4): Multi Raid, long term, about 50 km, in teams of two (with Isabelle) (22h 27 'with penalties - 13 th and penultimate of 19 ordered starters). We spent most of our time on the bike, where I was the worst performer, with disease ratings, coming almost out of time to each section! We could not do a half-hour CO night. Not a memorable ...
- Half of Hussigny ( November 2 ) (01h 40 ')
- Huewersauer Trail , Heidersheid (GDLux) ( November 16 ), 50 km - 1826 D + (06h 01' 28) . History get the point needed to enroll in CCC 2009. The virus is caught, I caught a shot of heart for the mountain and the great people we met there! •
8 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October) (206 starters)
TOTAL km race : 745

2009

So I piles up again on Mont Blanc, the new CCC and am looking more towards the longer races and trails. •
CALGA : 16 races (26 ^e / 79) • Other
:
- NeoProject Wanter Trail , Mersch (GDLux) ( February 22 ), 40 km - 1150 m D + (04h 09 ')
- The Elchertoise , Nobressart ( March 14 ), 47 km - 900m D + (05h 38 ')
- Trail Gougne (Delhalle) ( March 29), 35 km (03h 58'). A slurry of hell!
- The Bubbling , Bouillon ( April 29), 24 km - 1100 m + D (03h 36 ')
- BABA Raid, raid multisport guidance (Forest Anlier - Martelange Sure ) ( May 1-2) (The Confused, with Isabelle) (14h 39 ', 5 th scratch)
- marathon PRAGUE ( May 10) (04h 30'). Hard to complete 3 big races in 3 weeks! - 20 km from Brussels , team SNCB ( May 31) (01h 29 ', 1422 ^e / 25,000 runners - 40 th / 590 in V1). My best time over this distance, a perfect race!
- Marathon du Mont-Blanc ( June 28) 42 km - 2445 m + D (07h 12 '), coach for CCC.
- The Transforestière ( July 18-19), O raid on two days per team of 2 (with Isa), forest Anlier (10h 37'-13 e, 3 e mixed)
- The Ardennes , Louette (Delhalle) ( July 25), 21 km (01h 44 ')
- Recognition Mt Blanc ( late July): 98 km in 3 days. Already good taste and a real pleasure.
- CCC Mont Blanc ( 28-29 August), 98 km - 5600m D + (21h 58 '- 556 e / 1266) 4h less than last year!
- Strides of Wood Ospeau , Neufchâteau (Delhalle) ( September 5), 16 km (01h 164). One week after the CCC, I was flying again!
- Marathon Sure (GDLux) (25 Oct), 28 km kayak (Diekirch-Echternach), double with Isabelle (03h104).
Another adventure ... .. ! Sympa.

And do not laugh !

- Huewersauer Trail , Heidersheid (GDLux) ( November 15), 50 km - 1826 D + (05h 15 '). Belle improvement over last year.
- Long distance orientation , ASUB, Zonienwoud, Brussels (December 20 ), 20 km CO 2 per team (with Maria) (03h 46 '45 to 10 e / 13 teams). In 30 cm of snow! •
9 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre", entered the CALGA ( October ) (543 starters)
TOTAL km race : 676

2010

Madness up another notch. ... Mont Blanc again programmed: Traces the Dukes of Savoy (TDS), 111 km - 7000m D + First experience of the desert and stage races! It's Isabelle who directs me to this new experience. •
CALGA : only 9 races (and therefore not classified) + 4 or 5 out of 14 races = Chall. Obviously, we can not be everywhere ...
• Other:
- NeoProject Wanter Trail , Mersch (GDLux) (Jan 03 ), 37 km - 1150 m D + (03h 30 '- 20e/82). A very good start to the season.
- Trail of the Fireflies Soironnaises ( 30 Jan), 24 km (02h 40 '). At night in the snow, a real pleasure!
- Karrim'HOC , raid 2 days a guidance team (with Isabelle), region Couvin (10h 12 '- 26e/35). This was a few years that I heard about it ... it's done!
- The Moroccan south ( February 12 to 21), 240 km in 6 days, rando-race desert floor, without classification. a very rewarding adventure. Discovering the desert of Morocco.

boujour An Adventurer's ...

- The Elchertoise , Nobressart ( March 6), 25 km (02h 24 ')
- Eco Trail de Paris ( March 20), 80 km - 1500 m D + (11h 16 '). A rotten weather on the end of a rainstorm.
- BABA Raid, raid multisport orientation (Martelange-Esch / Sauer) (May 1-2 ) (The Confused, with Isabelle) (27 ^e / 31). Big lack of juice in ATV and atrocious weather on 2 ^e day.
- Trans AQ ' , Texas ( May 31 to June 06 ), 220 km in 6 stages autonomy 2X3 days (55 th / 137). Still a very beautiful and rewarding experience. And for a good cause, too. - Trail Mega Bulge, Ardennes French ( July 3), 80 km - 4000m D + (stop at 50 th km). My first retirement . Voluntary stop (big deal of fatigue), I was afraid of accumulating too tired and hurt myself before the Mt Blanc.
- Recognition Mont Blanc ( 29 July - 01 August ), about 110 km in three days. Real Vacation!
- TDS , Mont Blanc, 111 km - 7000 m D + 32h max. Disastrous Weather, race canceled. Big disappointment. THE challenge of the year falls into the water ..!

This forces me to review the rest of my season.
- The Caldéniacienne (Toul), ( September 5), 21 km. Disguised as a monk, exit festive!
- Eco Trail Praz de Lys (Mont Blanc) ( September 19), 50 km - 3735 m D +. To quench my thirst mountain. Arrested in the watershed of the 44 th km, was dragged a little too admiring the scenery ... - Urban Trail Hyeres (Var) ( October 17), 17 km - 600 m D + (01h 41 - 127e/234). In passing by. And a nice "bowl".
- Trail glimmers of hope (Fleurines) ( 30-31 Oct), 2 x 30 km - 750 m + D, (Night 03h 32 '- day 03h 52'). Original concept, great cause, good dirt, good atmosphere!

Check the front line (green fluorescent) ... for the photo!

- Olne-Spa-Olne ( November 28), 65 km - 2300 m D + (stop at 45 th km). boring course on the second part, I found no pleasure there.
- Lisbon Marathon (December 5 ) (04h 13 '11). Belle output between mates, our small team of runners and explore the city

From left to right, standing:
Palix Carine Michel-Pierre Rene-Serge Bernard
Before: Guy Georges Thierry

• 10 ^e organizing my race "Allure Libre" (October ), 2 e year in CALGA (534 starters)
TOTAL km race : 1116

10 years at a glance:
- Km race:
6004 - Number km drive: count between 2 and 3 of those running X
- Racing CALGA: 305
- Semi-marathon: 32
- Marathons: 16
- Trails: 20
- Ultra: 11
- Raids: 10

Acknowledgements : I can not close this small balance without thanking a few people here who have been important throughout these 10 years. First, my neighbor, Bernard without this little "challenge", who knows if I would one day started running? Florence and without his insistence, I would probably never come to CALGA. Then Martine , without which no training would perhaps have not been as beneficial. Then David, without whom I would perhaps never been to the mountain. Finally Isabella, for his enthusiasm for the discovery of distant horizons and took me in his luggage.

Epilogue : This world of running has opened a new life. I discovered "another world", friendliness, wellness and camaraderie. It also allowed me to experience, first in my area, and many other places in an original way and allowing time to appreciate things. Besides the invaluable contribution in health (staying within reasonable standards, obviously) and mentally. A
in a few years, I hope for the future ....

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"The Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock

is through a common reading initiated on the forum Livraddict I released this book my Read Cell. Happy discovery that it was because Holdstock is really a great writer who possessed a beautiful pen we discover a shared fantasy literature, fantasy and science fiction. A real pleasure! And I think a great writer!


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In a remote corner of Herefordshire stretches of Ryhope Wood, a remnant of an ancient forest back to the last glaciation, a wood so dense that it seems impossible to penetrate in- Beyond a certain limit. George Huxley, who settled with his family at the edge of Ryhope, for obscure reasons, is obsessed with the forest, the idea to explore its depths, an obsession that leads him to neglect his wife and her children. After his death in 1946, his two son find themselves Ryhope where, thanks to books he has left, the strange truth they are gradually revealed: in this corner of old England, it seems that the human psyche is capable of giving life to the peoples of the myths and legends. And at the bend of a trail or behind a tree, hide Guiwenneth, the beautiful Celtic princess, Jason and his Argonauts, King Arthur Pendragon and many other heroes still ...


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frankly is with pleasure that I discovered Robert Holdstock . It is true that this book and its sequels, are almost part of the present conventional gender SFFF (brief, the worlds What imagination!) in any case it is part of "The ideal library of the imagination" of Cockroach Cosmic . Now I understand better why we take this book in such high esteem because he is truly magnificent. And I also understand why it does not appeal to many people because " The Mythago Wood" is not the last book of classic fantasy and formatted. Robert Holdstock gives us here a book to cross genres of fantasy, in that I almost joined Brian Aldiss in his preface where he says "The Mythago Wood is neither wonderful nor the fantasy or science fiction, but one kind alone .

Paper unconventional end very badly described by its back cover, but it is clear that it is not clear summary of a book so rich, I should. "The Mythago Wood" debut as a book of SF. Steven Huxley decided to return to his home in the family home. The father is dead, this dark character with whom the family did not know how to react to his delusions and other disappearances in the woods. Rest Christian, his brother, he has not seen for years. But now just returned unspeakable tension arises between them. Christian over time began to resemble the father, and because he followed the same path as this whimsical: study and explore this strange forest of what the Ryhope. Through his brother, Steven will learn more about the wood, until Christian disappears or rather fled to the forest. And time goes by ...

One day, Steven discovers a man and a dog at home. He does not speak the same language as him. This character is strange, as from another time ... And then later she is a woman who shows up at him. A woman who looks suspiciously like Guiwenneth this woman that his father knew, this woman that her brother loved this woman who is dead and buried in their garden. But yet she is alive and well right out of the woods with strange powers. This forest is almost a living, this place gives rise to the Scots mythagos, characters from the human unconscious, myths of all ages come true!

But one day, Christian and embark forcibly returned Guiwenneth. Left for dead, Steven survive as Christian Urscumug that famous, big-headed character boar. Steven took a great love for his Guiwenneth the Mythago from its spirit, will leave in the forest ... But I say no more.

If the book begins on a pile of childhood memories and family stories, is best left to weigh a mood, at times heavy, at times happy. The relational net is woven, and on that basis everything is built. Gradually, with the discovery of what are mythagos, is created an atmosphere close to science fiction. We are told what they are, how they appeared, etc.. Then drag on a sense of fantasy, by impressions left here or there, or special environments created by Holdstock. Fantasy, or wonderful, invites himself also once the characters from the past, legends, myth comes in. In short, all kinds of imaginary are there in one book, and only happiness. Really!

To complete the set, Robert Holdstock is gifted with a beautiful pen. Describes very well what is going on without falling for my taste, in an acute descriptionite. It develops wish Steven and his moods, and brilliantly describes the growing phenomenon Mythago. Entering a slow pace that lets many go into the special ambience of this book. And yet these same points, which are qualities for me are faults in others. Train may be too long to describe or explain things, missing Perhaps some rhythm and action focus on poetry and myth taking shape, Holstock alienates an audience there. But it would go next in my opinion an excellent book!

short, a wonderful book that conveys a certain beauty. The nature there is an enormous place, personified by the forest and Urscumug. A forest that you feel familiar with Robert Holdstock as sweat here and there naturalist information. A book to read and does not steal his title "Masterpiece of SFFF" .


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This reading is shared with a common reading:
Bambi_Slaughter , Petitepom , and Mina88 Ptitetrolle



This is my first book read under the Challenge masterpiece of SFFF .
my ticket for participation.
The Ticket Challenge presentation



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• Paperback: 454 pages
• Publisher : Editions Gallimard (September 2, 2004)
• Collection: Folio SF

• Paperback: 829 pages
• Publisher: Editions Denoël (October 1, 2009)
• Collection: Moons Ink
  

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• EVENTS • Marathon 2011

MY DIARY 2011

My goal 2011: UTMB, the grand tour this time. After my "shelved" during the draw of 2010, I retain priority registration for this year. I will not miss this opportunity! Hoping that the weather will be milder than in 2010 ...!
In preparation: a large trail for months.

This will be my 11 th season running (and all sport short!) In CALGA *, challenge where I become less diligent in the nature of things (we do not know ... Just be everywhere 9 races in 2010).

* For the uninitiated, the CALGA ( http://www.acdampicourt.be/calg.htm #) is the Challenge of Free Gait Gaume, which incorporates 42 Official racing from late January to late October. Every Sunday at 10am in a different village of our beautiful region, are between 400 and 700 joggers of all ages gather for a "free style" because everyone is free to make his race as he wants. 2 distances are offered: small, about 5 km, and high, approx 10 km, with 3 seedlings on the season. Mainly on farm roads and forest with undulating hills and varied. Must participate in 15 races to be included in the final standings and get the t-shirt. This year, no fewer than 33 additional races which are held off the challenge, the remaining Sundays outside the period, and Friday evening during the period. Enough to occupy every Sunday of the year!
Note: October 9, 2011 , this will be my run in collaboration with the Table Tennis Virton, 11 th edition, 3 th year in the challenge. Welcome! (534 runners in 2010)

January 22: Soironnaises Trail of the Fireflies, Soiron (B). Night Trail 21 km
http://www.lescoureurscelestes.be
This race really well liked me last year. I commend that. result Not done! Replaced by a weekend hike in the Mont Blanc.