If anything like the remaining 20% were to buy it, it would be an outstanding success (of course, sales figures will not come anywhere near that). The media around the book represents supreme marketing in my view, especially in terms of the initial period of reporting the negatives, and now coming in with the positives to pick up other readers.

As for me, the book isn't on the top of my reading list.

 

I had a momentary urge to maybe check out the book, as my token effort to read a book in French, but honestly, Valerie is such an unsympathetic character in her own right that I can't bring myself to do it. I find the whole sordid episode to be a good example of "karma."
Cheers,
Bev

 

I personally think she wrote the book too soon after the relationship failed, thus the experience is still raw. That's the main reason I doubt I'll read it - if it's full of recriminations, it's hardly surprising as she hasn't had time to step back and reflect properly. (I don't have trouble reading French, in fact for the last few years I have only read in French even though I read a lot.)

 

One of the best pieces of advice I've read was to the effect that just because something has happened to you you shouldn't think that others will find it interesting enough to read about.

This book won't be on my list.

 

There will always be a market for gossip and anything running down M Hollande will be eagerly lapped up at the moment I would think.
I must confess that I laughed at her comment about him always being photographed in the rain and looking like a drowned rat.

 

VT is set to make a 'mozza' on this book - looks like it's the current best-seller in France. Human nature

 

Quoi?

 

what language is "mozza"? I am from the older generation

 

Win a Motza

It's an old-generation word!

"Mozzer, mozza - luck, good fortune.

This seems to be the main surviving variant among many words (‘mozz’, ‘mozzle, ‘mozzy’) deriving from the Yiddish mazel: a cooke blessing the consumer with good luck. The words have existed in British working-class speech since at least the 1880s and later became part of Austrlian usage, usually in the forms motzer or motza."

Thorne T, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (A&C Black 2014)

 

Thanks for the spelling Bellthorpe

 

Ah it's obvious that once it was exported to Australia it died out in the old country as did many other American and Australian usages. It amuses me no end that my BIL in Oz used to work for "the shire" it puts me in mind of Robin Hood.