montreal13

📍 Longueuil, Quebec, Canada

Member since July 2007

Oct 3 2023 - Working on stats after a long hiatus - Cream o' the crop for now...
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Have tea, will babble !
real name: Lucien
I am a Quebecois: mother tongue is french...
I love words AND numbers...
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*** GREAT BOOKS :
2024
The body (Bill Bryson)
2022
All the light we cannot see (Anthony Doerr)

2021
Project Hail Mary by Andy Wear
Liu Cixin's s/f trilogy
For whom the bells toll by Hemingway
The narrow road to the deep north by Richard Flanagan

2020
"Captain Corelli's mandolin" by Louis de Bernières, a british author, -- one of the best book i ever read - i highly recommend it ☺

A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The 'Wayward pines' trilogy by Blake Crouch
The wall by John Lanchester

2019
"The five" by Robert McCammon
Sapiens, a brief history of humankind by Harari

For all dog-lovers, 2 books: 1 - "Suspect" by David Crais, a standalone novel NOT in his Elvis Cole series
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2 - "The curious incident with the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon : Loved it !

2018
Butcher's crossing, Stoner and Augustus, all 3 by John E. Williams
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Les larmes de l'automne by Charles McCarry

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...recent additions...august 2016
Boy's life by Robert McCammon
The 1000 autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
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The martian by Andy Weir
The last policeman + Countdown city + World of trouble (Ben Winters) - a pre-apocalyptic trilogy
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Atlas shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter (Mario Vargas Lhossa)
Camouflage AND Mindbridge (both by Joe Haldeman)
Chasseurs de tête (Headhunters ?) by Jo Nesbo
Cloud atlas AND Ghostwritten (both by David Mitchell)
Ensemble c'est tout (Anna Gavalda)
HHhH (Laurent Binet) - (it's a german acronym for Himmler's brain is Heydrich) - has been translated into english with the same title...
House of cards (Michael Dobbs)
Italian shoes (Henning Mankell)
Jennie (Douglas Preston) - also collaborations with Lincoln Child are almost all very good
La fête au bouc (Mario Vargas Llosa) - an excellent story of life in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Raphael Trujillo, the tyrant that lead the country for 30 odd years...
La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert (Joel Dicker)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
The algebraist (Iain Banks)
The road (Cormac McCarthy)
The source (James Michener)
The Terror + The abominable (Dan Simmons)
Timbuktu (Paul Auster)
11/22/63 and "The stand" (Stephen King)

*** GREAT SERIES OF BOOKS :
The Aubrey-Maturin series (Patrick O'Brian)
The Bernie Gunther series (Philip Kerr)
The number 1 ladies' detective agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Silo trilogy : Wool, Shift, Dust (Hugh Howey)
The Jackson Brodie series (Kate Atkinson)
The Dalziel & Pascoe series (Reginald Hill)
All of Carl Hiaasen, especially the early ones...
All of John Grisham
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- BABBLE stats:
Starting January 2012, stats are produced on a quarterly basis.
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Starting January 2021, stats are produced on a semi-annual basis.
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1 -- CREAM O' THE CROP:
Last update : 1st half 2021 (completed January 16th, 2021)
---- link : http://tinyurl.com/4q27zr
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2 -- VILLAGE ELDERS :
Last update : year-end 2019 (completed October 9th, 2020)
---- link : http://tinyurl.com/59ephs
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Dr. God has included links to both my "stats" pages on the main Babble page under "Friends of Babble"
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Folding@Home: member of team "Babblers" since Feb 17 2011 - a worthy cause - see crosshair's profile for more info.
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EMAIL: jlbrisebois AT videotron DOT ca