Twice a month, a public figure tells us what he is reading at the moment. This week, Olivier Bernard, pharmacist, science popularizer and host of the program The Adventures of the Pharmacist and podcast drifts.
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Novice
Novice
Stephane Dompierre
Quebec America
” I just finished it. I don’t read a lot of novels, in general, but during the pandemic, I was tempted, so I read a lot of horror novels. […] Seems like it took me out of the horror of everyday life. It’s like a comedy-slasher about a killer attacking a social media disconnect camp. There’s a lot of humor, it plays with classic horror movie cliches. There’s also social commentary on social media, online hate, and that comes to me personally, as I do a lot of stuff on the web. Seems like everything I love was in that novel. It’s super good, really. »
mexican gothic
mexican gothic
Silvia Moreno Garcia
Bragelonne
“The author is Canadian. This is probably the best horror novel I’ve read in 10 years. It’s happening in Mexico; a girl will find part of the family, everyone is mysterious. […] There is an incredible atmosphere and an extraordinary atmosphere, worthy of a Guillermo del Toro film, only better. I have set myself the goal in the last two years of reading as many novels as possible written by women, because horror novels are often associated with something masculine; I’ve read horror novels since I was young – Stephen King etc. – and it is one of the novels […] extraordinary that I bought with this lens. »
The Triumph and Fall of the Dinosaurs
The Triumph and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
Quebec America
“With this book, we’re closer to what I’m used to reading year-round – 90% of what I read is popular science, and I really try to go into subjects I know less about. It is a masterpiece of popular science. The author is a paleontologist who has made some major discoveries about dinosaurs in recent years. […] It is told to the “I”, like a personal quest; it is really an account of his career interspersed with all the researchers he meets. We also learn that before the dinosaurs, there were other creatures that we have never heard of. […] I felt like crying at the end when the dinosaurs disappear. »