Book Review #17
A Certain Smile
by Francoise Sagan
I just finished reading "A Certain Smile" for a third time and with each reading I've gotten more out of this slender, lovely, touching, perceptive novella.
Dominique, the main character, is not always likable. Her boredom seems at times almost like an affectation. She is fickle but passionate, self-pitying and selfish. But understandable as well. She is in love with the idea of love.
There were times when my mind wandered due to the writing's dreamlike, lyrical, nearly stream of consciousness quality. Not to mention that somewhere in the recesses of my mind I could hear Johnny Mathis singing the words to the song "A Certain Smile."
by Francoise Sagan
I just finished reading "A Certain Smile" for a third time and with each reading I've gotten more out of this slender, lovely, touching, perceptive novella.
Dominique, the main character, is not always likable. Her boredom seems at times almost like an affectation. She is fickle but passionate, self-pitying and selfish. But understandable as well. She is in love with the idea of love.
There were times when my mind wandered due to the writing's dreamlike, lyrical, nearly stream of consciousness quality. Not to mention that somewhere in the recesses of my mind I could hear Johnny Mathis singing the words to the song "A Certain Smile."
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