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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Book - en souvenir de demain



Book - En souvenir de demain
The tile means 'in memory of tomorrow'.

 Author: Véronique Bréger 
Score: 8/10
Year : 2006 
KTM editions, ISBN 2913066275
197 pages 
Language : French. Not translated (yet) 

The year is 2488; many cataclysms reduced the human population by 80% and changed the face of the world.
During an auction, an American historian, Emma, discovers a manuscript dating from 2004. It tells a love story between a French woman - France Moreau - and a Greek artist - Evridiki Thasseli. Captivated, Emma takes off for Greece, and without her knowledge, ends up in the middle of art trafficking. She visits several islands, meeting different contacts for her research and falls in love with a charming archaeologist…

This is the first lesbian novel I’ve read, and in spite of one brief scene of food, I absolutely enjoyed my reading. A few erotic and poetic love scenes spice this romantic novel, full of mystery and mythology.
Suspense was good and had to wait for the end to really know what was going on, although I had developed a few theories early on and I still believe in them…
It seems it wasn’t translated to English, so only the French readers will have access to it, for now…
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