Wednesday 13 October 2010

Candide Voltaire

A teacher from Lincolnshire contacted me to ask whether I would be doing Candide by Voltaire in the series of book resources on www.alevelfrench.com.  This is very tempting-I read the book many moons ago and I decided to download it to read in the kindle app on my smartphone on holiday at the same time as downloading the free mp3s from the http://www.litteratureaudio.com/ site.  This site has lots of well known novels read by amateurs and recorded in mp3-lots of de Maupassant particularly.  A great place to get audio books.  The lady reading Candide is doing a pretty good job - I can keep listening anyway!

L'étranger is the A level resource which is proving the most popular with the school teachers-it must be attracting more interest than the rest of the books put together, excluding Un Sac de Billes.   A very difficult decision which book to choose-I must say I would probably prefer the latter-I just think it's a shame that students don't still have to do four.  I'm old-fashioned and a book worm and it would suit my website for this to be the case ;-).