Charlotte Cardin, the pop star with a captivating voice and adored by all, does not limit herself to seducing her fans with her melodies.
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Recently, on her Instagram page, she shared a selection of six books that had an impact on her and that she highly recommends to her community.
Here are 6 books loved by Charlotte Cardin!
1. Sad Snow Tiger Sinno
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“Alps, in the 1990s. The narrator, named Neige, is raped regularly by her stepfather. In 2000, she and her mother filed a complaint and the man was sentenced to nine years in prison. Through this fictional story, the author relates what she suffered, explores the means of expressing trauma as well as the power and powerlessness of literature to tell the story of incest and rape. »
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2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings de Maya Angelou
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“Here is a book as joyful and painful, as mysterious and memorable as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the raw insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic loved around the world. »
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3. The Enraged by Sorj Chalandon
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“On the evening of August 27, 1934, 56 children from the Belle-Ile-en-Mer Supervised Education Center revolted and fled. The gendarmes offer a twenty-franc coin for each young person captured and the hunt begins. At the first light of dawn, only one person is missing. It is the story of this boy, beaten, enraged and born without love, which is told. »
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4. The creative act de Rick Rubin
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“This book is intended to be a magnificent and generous course that illuminates the artist’s journey, like a road that we can all follow. It expresses the wisdom acquired over a lifetime of work and transmits it through a luminous reading experience that puts within everyone’s reach the power to create moments, and lives, of exaltation and transcendence. »
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5. May Our Joy Remain by Kevin Lambert
“The dazzling Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect, finally unveils the Webuy Complex, the first major public project she is carrying out for Montreal, her city. Critics immediately came flooding in: Céline was accused of destroying the social fabric, of accelerating the gentrification of neighborhoods, of even more deadly sins. Caught in the turmoil, the architect is summoned to react. It is the dominant class that Kevin Lambert portrays here, people at the top of their discipline and who for the first time are in danger of losing their footing. What fiction do they tell themselves to justify their privileges, to establish their place in a world that they themselves built? »
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6. Bluets de Maggie Nelson
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“The work hybridizes several styles of prose and poetry as it documents Nelson’s multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as a lyric essay or prose poetry. It was written between 2003 and 2006.
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