Kate Austen
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24 August 2009 @ 10:13 am
03 February 2009 @ 06:54 pm
It's that time of the year again, my first post regarding the 50 book challenge (
- Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel: Marie-Claire Blais (3.5)
- Menad maître-draveur: Félix-Antoine Savard (4.5)
- The It girl 1 : Cecily von Ziesagar & ghostwriter (4)
- La route d'Altamont: Gabrielle Roy (4)
- Les Malheurs de Sophie: La Comtesse de Ségur (5)
- Bonheur d'Occasion: Gabrielle Roy (3.5)
- Voyage au centre de la terre: Jules Verne (3)
- La Brûlerie: Émile Ollivier (4)
- La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte:Michel Tremblay (3.5)
- Vendredi ou la vie sauvage: Michel Tournier (4.8)
- Putain: Nelly Arcan (4.5)
- À toi pour toujours ta marie-lou: Michel Tremblay (3)
- Volkswagen Blues (5)
- Borderline (5)
- Rose Blanche (4)
- Mon affreux papa (4.5)
- L'inratitude. Ying Chen (4)
- Le pavillon des miroirs (4)
- La fille en cuir (3.5)
- L'étoile a pleuré rouge (2.5)
- Chercher le vent (3.5)
- Martine en voyage (4)
- Martine à la maison (5)
- Martine et la fête (4.5)
- Notorious. an it girl novel. (4)
- Reckless an it girl novel (4)
- Eat pray love (4)
- The it girl (4)
- Gossip girl: The Carlyles Take a chance on me (4.5)
- L'étranger d'Albert Camus ( 5)
- Angels & Demons Dan Brown(4)
- Salut Galarneau! Jacques Godbout (4.5)
- The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama (4)
- Bottomfeeder Taras Grescoe (3.5)
- Everyone worth knowing Lauren Weisenberger (4)
- Chasing Harry Winston Lauren Weisenberger(4)
- Gossip girl (5)
- Gossip girl You know you love me (4)
- Gossip Girl All I want is everything (3.5)
- Gossip Girl Because Im worth it (3.5)
- Gossip Girl I like it like that (4)
- Gossip Girl You're the on that I want (4.5)
- Gossip Girl Nobody does it better ( 4.5)
- Gossip Girl Nothing cant keep us together (4.5)
- Gossip Girl Only in your dream (4.5)
- Gossip Girl Would I lie to you (4)
- Gossip Girl The Carlyles Love the one youre with (4)
- Paradis,clef en main, Nelly Arcan (5)
- Gossip Girl, I will always love you (now reading)
23 December 2008 @ 04:28 pm
So here is an actual post, my dears!
I have finished my first university semester like 2 weeks ago and receive my grades. They are pretty good except that I would have loved to have an A not only B's. Anyway I am currently relaxing and I enjoying my vacation. The next term is going to be wild! I will have 5 classes and 20 novel to read minimum ... It's going to be fun ;). I will try to get an A this time. Anyone know if there is on the web a chart of the GPA explaining which is above the average , excellent, in the average etc? That would be good to know...
I spent some time with Val,Vio and Carl although it was weird since Val & Carl broke up 2 months ago and I just found out. But they seem to manage it well so it's good for them. We went to the Mont-Royal and I took a pic of the panorama :
Then we walked all the way to the farest Commensal lol but it was so worth it! It tasted great, as usual!
It's soon going to be 2 years now that I was hospitalised and I feel so well, I might drop my antidepressants in like a year or so. I wish it was sooner but my shrink decided in another way. Anyway I almost have not "mental" pills anymore only other pills because of the side effects created by those ones...
2008 was a very busy year both in my personal life and the whole world life itself. My proudest moment was to beat my mental illness and graduate from cegep after 2 trys... Whats yours?
Have a merry christmas and an happy new year!
Current Location: Living room
Current Mood:
contemplative
Current Music: Mario Kart on N64 played by Stef
23 December 2008 @ 11:25 am
Best movie: The Dark Knight
Best event: The Stanley Cup Playoff at Montreal
Best music: Peter Bjorn & John
Best TV: Lost
Best Book: Veronika decide to die ( not from 08 but thats when I read it)
Best Game: The Sims 2 Freetime
Best website: ONTD
Best Accomplishment: Graduate from CEGEP
Best Job: CAA-Qc
Best University: Concordia! :P
Best event: The Stanley Cup Playoff at Montreal
Best music: Peter Bjorn & John
Best TV: Lost
Best Book: Veronika decide to die ( not from 08 but thats when I read it)
Best Game: The Sims 2 Freetime
Best website: ONTD
Best Accomplishment: Graduate from CEGEP
Best Job: CAA-Qc
Best University: Concordia! :P
23 December 2008 @ 10:48 am
19 December 2008 @ 09:49 am
I was born on the same date than :
Mel C
Marian Hossa
François Girard
Kirstie Alley
Charles Perrault
Jack London
And no they all differ from me ..... a lot!
Mel C
Marian Hossa
François Girard
Kirstie Alley
Charles Perrault
Jack London
And no they all differ from me ..... a lot!
04 December 2008 @ 01:46 pm
Buffy! I am rewatching the 7 seasons and no other show when this far in every field. All the others ones lookslike sleeping pill in comparison.
28 November 2008 @ 10:45 am
19 November 2008 @ 11:44 pm
I would like to be at County (ER). The team is more enthusiastic to work and care for each other so I would feel more secure and priviliged. Besides, they seem to deal well with psychatrical problems too...
12 November 2008 @ 05:45 pm
10 October 2008 @ 10:05 am
You can read my report of the candidates from the debate of October the 1st at Concordia, here.
16 August 2008 @ 07:15 am
The sixth Harry Potter movie is going to be delayed to july 2009 rather than november 2008 for finacial matters...
Sign the petition here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/h arrypotter6.
To protest agaisn't this ridiculous decision.
Sign the petition here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/h
To protest agaisn't this ridiculous decision.
Current Mood:
pissed off
27 May 2008 @ 03:00 pm
Avis à tous les francophones sur LJ je viens de fonder une communauté :
defi_50livres où vous pouvez poster la liste des livres que vous avez lu en 2008 en essayant d'atteindre l'objectif d'en lire 50. Bref le 50bookchallenge est maintenant accessible à tous les francophones ;).
Current Location: Home
Current Mood:
cheerful
27 April 2008 @ 04:13 pm
( The 50 book's challenge )
1. Il faut que l'on parle de Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
a. This american novel tells the story of a young psychopath that killed various other teenanger at his high school. This very touching and scary novel tells the life of a murderer teen through the letters that his mother write to her ex-husband.
b. This book is very well written and realistic and talks about a big taboo in our society. And as the title say () we must speak about violence and murders in schools to find a way to stop those tragedies.
2. Au secours, pardon by Frédéric Beigbeder
a. The main character from 99 Francs is back and now is a talen scout in Russia. He must the most beautiful russian girl to be a model of publicity campaigns. Througout his confessions to a priest we see him fall in love with a young model.
b. The particular style of Beigbeder is back altough this novel is not as good as 99 Francs. It's not a very good work although the twist in the end of the novel is a good one.
3. Journal d'hirondelle by Amélie Nothomb.
a. Nothomb tell in this short novel the story of a man that after a difficult breakup becomes a coldblood tueur à gages. During a duty the hero find a weird diary of a teenage girl of a minister that seem to represent a lot more than first appear to it's readers.
b. This novel of Nothomb is extremely well written and addictive you simply can't put it down!
4. Les combustibles by Amélie Nothomb.
a. This very short dramaplay tells the story of 3 intellectual that during the war when they have nothing to burn in the fireplace ended up burning books after heated discussions on whether those books deserves to be burn or not...
b. A very smart and interesting book that makes you think about the books that you read and the perception of various other persons on the same books.
5. Stupeurs et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb.
a. This novel that has been adapted in a motion picture describe the japanese bussiness society through the insulting jobs that a young belgian women gets in a big japanese enterprise in Tokyo,
b. Very funny and probably realistic.
6. The nanny diaeries.
7. Gossip girl: the prequel by Cecily von Ziesegar.
8. Les enfants de la liberté by Marc Lévy.
9. Lucky by Alice Sebold.
10. Catastrophes by Pierre Samson.
11. Espèces en voie de disparition by Robert Lalonde.
12. Comment faire une maison avec ses morts? By Élyse Turcotte.
13. La sœur de Judith. By Lise Tremblay.
14. Ce n'est pas une façon de dire adieu. By Stéfani Meunier.
15. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
16. Lignes de failles by Nancy Huston.
17. Véronika déçide de mourir by Paulo Cohelo.
18. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
19. Schizoaffective:An happier and healthier life by Mary Dodds.
20. Ça sent la coupe by Matthieu Simard.
21. Je veux vivre.
22. Survivre à l'impardonnable.Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu.
23.Gossip Girl: The Carlyles by Cecily von Ziegesar.
24, Twilight. by Stephenie Meyer.
25. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.
26. Entendu à Montréal.by Christian Mistral et cie.
27.Shooting from the lips by Chris McDonell.
28. Gossip girl. The Carlyles 2. by Cecily von Ziesegar.
29.Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chapman.
30.Mon Affreux Papa by Chris Donner.
31. Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti.
32.Jomush & le troll des cuisines by Christianne Duchesne.
33. Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labrèche. NOW READING.
1. Il faut que l'on parle de Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
a. This american novel tells the story of a young psychopath that killed various other teenanger at his high school. This very touching and scary novel tells the life of a murderer teen through the letters that his mother write to her ex-husband.
b. This book is very well written and realistic and talks about a big taboo in our society. And as the title say () we must speak about violence and murders in schools to find a way to stop those tragedies.
2. Au secours, pardon by Frédéric Beigbeder
a. The main character from 99 Francs is back and now is a talen scout in Russia. He must the most beautiful russian girl to be a model of publicity campaigns. Througout his confessions to a priest we see him fall in love with a young model.
b. The particular style of Beigbeder is back altough this novel is not as good as 99 Francs. It's not a very good work although the twist in the end of the novel is a good one.
3. Journal d'hirondelle by Amélie Nothomb.
a. Nothomb tell in this short novel the story of a man that after a difficult breakup becomes a coldblood tueur à gages. During a duty the hero find a weird diary of a teenage girl of a minister that seem to represent a lot more than first appear to it's readers.
b. This novel of Nothomb is extremely well written and addictive you simply can't put it down!
4. Les combustibles by Amélie Nothomb.
a. This very short dramaplay tells the story of 3 intellectual that during the war when they have nothing to burn in the fireplace ended up burning books after heated discussions on whether those books deserves to be burn or not...
b. A very smart and interesting book that makes you think about the books that you read and the perception of various other persons on the same books.
5. Stupeurs et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb.
a. This novel that has been adapted in a motion picture describe the japanese bussiness society through the insulting jobs that a young belgian women gets in a big japanese enterprise in Tokyo,
b. Very funny and probably realistic.
6. The nanny diaeries.
7. Gossip girl: the prequel by Cecily von Ziesegar.
8. Les enfants de la liberté by Marc Lévy.
9. Lucky by Alice Sebold.
10. Catastrophes by Pierre Samson.
11. Espèces en voie de disparition by Robert Lalonde.
12. Comment faire une maison avec ses morts? By Élyse Turcotte.
13. La sœur de Judith. By Lise Tremblay.
14. Ce n'est pas une façon de dire adieu. By Stéfani Meunier.
15. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
16. Lignes de failles by Nancy Huston.
17. Véronika déçide de mourir by Paulo Cohelo.
18. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
19. Schizoaffective:An happier and healthier life by Mary Dodds.
20. Ça sent la coupe by Matthieu Simard.
21. Je veux vivre.
22. Survivre à l'impardonnable.Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu.
23.Gossip Girl: The Carlyles by Cecily von Ziegesar.
24, Twilight. by Stephenie Meyer.
25. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.
26. Entendu à Montréal.by Christian Mistral et cie.
27.Shooting from the lips by Chris McDonell.
28. Gossip girl. The Carlyles 2. by Cecily von Ziesegar.
29.Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chapman.
30.Mon Affreux Papa by Chris Donner.
31. Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti.
32.Jomush & le troll des cuisines by Christianne Duchesne.
33. Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labrèche. NOW READING.
Current Mood:
creative
15 April 2008 @ 12:56 pm
As you might have noticed I didnt post recently. This is due to the fact that my livejournal is bugged. Basically the google adds on the journal recent events page are messed up and don't allow me to edit or post anything new to my blog. Consquently I openened an account on Insane Journal. If you are a member there you should me friend me because I won't be able to post on LJ while I am at home. I currently am at school working on my project of DEC but I don't have the proper version of my final german text with me so... I am working on the french part. So this is why i can post since the school computers aren't bugged like mine lol. I am going to copy my yesterday entries from IJ to this LJ... when it's going to be possible :(.sigh.
See ya soon! I hope it will be here! Or at: http://k8-austen.insanejournal.com/ .
See ya soon! I hope it will be here! Or at: http://k8-austen.insanejournal.com/ .
03 October 2007 @ 10:12 am

A few days ago I saw the movie Silk by François Girard. The sory goes as follow the summary is from Imd.Based on the Alessandro Baricco's novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect. This movie was very good even if it had some lenghts and some scene weren't necessary. Michael Pitt is really a good actor and he is also quite good looking. The pictures of the movie and especially Hélène's garden are magnificient. The story is well and respect the novel. In sum I would say that I reccomend you seeing but from what I saw on the web it's released only in some limited places in the USA.That's just too bad because it's a very unique movie.
Current Mood:
happy
05 September 2007 @ 06:38 pm

I just saw the movie Volver by Pedro Almodovar.Penelope Cruz plays very well the main character Romunda.The story follows 3 generation of women, their quarells and secrets the keep for themselve. The mother that we believed dead reappar in Sole's life and unveiled many mystery.I didnt like this movie very much it wasnt as good as the bad education was so I wont recommend it.
Current Mood:
calm
Current Music: When you're gone/ Avril Lavigne











