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📍 montpellier
📖 I like books & cinema | in eng/fr
🖋️ jury prix nouvelles voix du polar 2026
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My autumn book recs!!! 🎃🍂🫆

With autumn being almost here, here’s a list of books that are perfect for cozying up under a blanket, settling into your favourite armchair, or enjoying alongside a warm drink! 📚☕

Just like my previous post, I’ve tried to include a little bit of everything: thrillers, classics and fantasy. Hopefully there’s something here for every kind of reader! 🫶🏻

If I had to recommend one thing for this autumn, it would be to read gothic classics. Their brooding atmospheres always bring something wonderfully eerie and chilling and it’s the perfect mood for autumn!!!🕯️🦇

#bookrecs #classics #bookstagram #autumn #gothicbooks taken in Bookstagram by @simply.laureen

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25 days ago

Mid-year reading wrap-up! 💖📚

Here are all the books I’ve enjoyed so far this year! I hope this list inspires you to pick up one or two of them. 🫶🏻

#bookstagram #bookrecs #bookstagrammer taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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3 months ago

La 41e Comédie du Livre 📖💕

Ce week-end j’ai été à mon tout premier festival livresque : la 41e édition de la Comédie du Livre ! 📚✨

Entre les stands de livres, les rencontres, les dédicaces et les discussions autour des livres, j’ai passé une journée incroyable aux côtés de mes copines du bookstagram (@fatmazarchives @maharou.and.booky @lorena_hibooks) 🫶

Ça m’a fait tellement plaisir de rencontrer des auteur·ices que je ne connaissais pas encore (surtout dans l’imaginaire) 🩷🖊️
Un immense merci à @dimitri_olivier_ @raynayler & @emilie_querbalec pour leurs dédicaces et leur gentillesse, j’ai vraiment hâte de découvrir vos univers !!! 🐙🎍🤗

Et évidemment, une mention spéciale pour les petites pauses café qui ont rythmé cette journée 🍵

Je suis rentrée épuisée à cause de la chaleur, mais avec plein de beaux souvenirs ✨📸

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My very first book festival 📖💕

This weekend I attended my first-ever book festival: the 41st edition of La Comédie du Livre! 📚✨

Between the book stands, the meetings, the book signings and all the chats about books, I had an amazing day with my bookstagram friends 🫶

I was so happy to meet authors I hadn’t discovered yet (especially in the fantasy/sci-fi genre) 🩷🖊️ A huge thank you to everyone for their signings and kindness! I genuinely can’t wait to explore your worlds!!!

And of course, a special shoutout to the coffee breaks that kept us going throughout the day 🍵

I came home exhausted by the heat but with my head full of wonderful memories ✨📸

PS: Merci @lorena_hibooks pour la photo et la vidéo 💞

@comediedulivre_10joursenmai

#montpellier #bookstagram #france #comediedulivre #readersofinstagram taken in Montpellier by @simply.laureen

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5 months ago

My favorite weird girl movies. 🍿🔮

Hiii 🖤
Here are some of my top movie picks if you’re looking for something with uncanny, witchy, eerie, and horrific vibes this autumn (but honestly these work for any season too)! ✨🫶🏻

Don’t hesitate to add me on Letterboxd too: laureeninmotion 🥰🎥 by @simply.laureen

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9 days ago

Tiny photo dump of the last few months. 🍵📚💕

(I’m trying to slowly make a comeback around here but I’ve been busy with my studies and personal stuff too, please bare with me 😭💔)

#bookstagram #montpellier #booklover #readersofinstagram taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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22 days ago

📚 AVIS LECTURE : Les Diables de Joe Abercrombie ☠️

Mon tout premier livre de Joe Abercrombie… et quelle découverte ! 😍

Pour commencer, je ne vais pas vous mentir… j’ai eu un peu de mal au début. Il a fallu que j’attende environ les 200 premières pages avant d’être réellement plongée dans l’histoire. L’intrigue met du temps à se mettre en place et l’univers, qui est aussi très dense et complexe manquait parfois de développement à mon goût. J’ai donc eu quelques moments où je me suis sentie un peu perdue… 🥲 MAIS une fois que tout s’est mis en place, ce livre était impossible à lâcher !

J’ai absolument adoré l’ambiance du roman : violente, TRÈS drôle, chaotique, sanglante et pleine d’action !!! ⚔️ Entre les différents personnages, tous plus fous les uns que les autres, il y a une vraie dynamique qui apporte énormément de profondeur au récit. Et évidemment une petite mention spéciale à mes deux personnages préférées : Vigga et Sunny ! 💕🥹

Donc, malgré un début un peu difficile, j’ai vraiment aimé cette lecture ! 🥰

Si vous aimez la dark fantasy, l’humour noir et les univers complexes, allez lire ce livre ! C’est une série que je compte clairement poursuivre… j’ai déjà hâte de découvrir le deuxième tome ! 📖

💬 Et vous, vous avez déjà lu ce roman ? 😊

#bookstagram #bookstagramfrance #avislecture #lesdiables #joeabercrombie taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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a month ago

BOOK REVIEW: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 🐙🧬

This story follows the discovery of a mysterious super-intelligent octopus species. Dr. Ha Nguyen, our main protagonist and a marine biologist will do almost anything to study them and to understand what makes them so different from us.

What I loved the most about this book is how it explores the meaning of life. What does it mean to think? To communicate? To exist? And what happens when we try to answer these questions while our planet is on the edge of an environmental disaster!

Even if it took me an entire month to finish this book, it was definitely worth it! The ideas around consciousness and the meaning of language really stayed with me long after putting the book down. It also reminded me a lot of the movie Arrival, which conveys the same feeling of trying to understand an intelligence that communicates and thinks in a completely different way. If you love Arrival, you’ll definitely love this book too! 👽

To finish this review, one of the little things that made me pick up this book in the first place was the main protagonist herself! She’s of Vietnamese origin (just like me) and I loved seeing an Asian woman as the main character in a sci-fi book. It still feels too rare nowadays! 💗

#bookstagram #themountaininthesea #bookreview #sciencefiction taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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2 months ago

My favorite movies (mid-2026 recap) 🎬🍿

What a year for cinema so far! I’m hoping that the second half of 2026 is just as amazing!!! 🤩🍿✨

#letterboxd #movierecs #movie by @simply.laureen

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2 months ago

july dump 🌞💗

thank you all again for the birthday wishes and gifts 🥹🫶🏻 and an extra special shoutout to my family for the most amazing gift ever 💕✨

i didn’t get much reading done this month... i’m blaming the heat and the fact that my brain has completely stopped functioning 😭

#bookstagram #summer #montpellier #bookish #readersofig taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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2 months ago

BOOK REVIEW: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📽️🩸

Set in the Mexican film industry of the 1990s, this story follows Montserrat, a sound editor, and Tristan, a faded soap opera star. Together, they will meet a meet a cult horror film director, and end up helping him shoot a missing scene from a cursed movie in the hope of lifting its curse.

This was such a quick and easy read that helped me to slowly getting out of my reading slump!

One thing I really loved was all the references to the occult. I actually recognised some of them because I studied the subject for my dissertation, which made the reading experience even more fun. 🔮

There are also lots of movie references throughout the book. The idea of a cursed movie was what made me pick this up in the first place, and it definitely didn’t disappoint!!!

As for the horror aspect, some passages were definitely tense, but I didn’t find them particularly scary. I wouldn’t classify it as a pure horror novel though because it focuses much more on dark magic than on horror itself!

If you love the occult and cinema, I think you’ll really enjoy this one! 🎥

#bookstagram #bookreview #silvernitrate #silviamorenogarcia taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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3 months ago

chapter 28. 🎂💕

(+ mini july dump 🌞)

thank you so much everyone for all the birthday wishes and the gifts, it truly meant so much to me!!! 🫶🏻🥰

ps: i will come back soon with more bookish contents, i promise 😭

#bookstagram #readersofinstagram taken in Montpellier, France by @simply.laureen

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3 months ago