Suzanne et Sabrina

 

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence service. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a secret mission codenamed Sweet Tooth, which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.

Ce premier livre sur mon IPad - 

Rêves, cauchemars… Que veulent-ils nous dire ?

50 % de la population dort environ 7 heures par nuit, ce qui laisse amplement le temps aux rêves ou aux cauchemars de se succéder dans notre inconscient. PasseportSanté vous propose d'en apprendre davantage sur leur signification…

Le désir d’interpréter et de comprendre les rêves remonte à la mythologie grecque, lorsque ces derniers étaient étroitement associés aux divinités. Ce n’est qu’assez récemment que des études empiriques sur la nature des songes ont été menées. Malgré les différentes recherches et les hypothèses émises au cours des siècles, le rôle et l’importance du rêve demeurent incertains.

La période de sommeil se décline en 5 phases distinctes :

■L’endormissement est composé de deux stades : la somnolence et l’assoupissement. La somnolence se caractérise par une perte de tonus musculaire et un ralentissement du rythme cardiaque, avant de s’assoupir.

■Le sommeil léger représente 50 % du temps de sommeil complet pour une nuit. Durant cette phase, la personne est assoupie, mais elle est très sensible aux stimuli externes.

■Le sommeil lent profond est la phase d’installation au sommeil profond. C’est à ce moment que l’activité cérébrale ralentit le plus.

■Le sommeil profond est la phase la plus intense de la période de repos, durant laquelle l’ensemble du corps (les muscles et le cerveau) est endormi. Cette phase est la plus importante du sommeil car elle permet de récupérer la fatigue physique accumulée. C’est aussi à ce moment que peut survenir le somnambulisme.

■Le sommeil paradoxal est appelé ainsi car à ce stade le cerveau émet des ondes rapides, les yeux de la personne sont en mouvement et la respiration devient irrégulière. Alors que ces signes peuvent laisser croire que la personne est sur le point de s’éveiller, elle se trouve encore dans un sommeil profond. Bien que les rêves puissent survenir durant d’autres phases telles que le sommeil léger, ils se manifestent principalement durant la phase du sommeil paradoxal qui occupe environ 25 % du temps de repos.

Un cycle de sommeil dure entre 90 et 120 minutes. Ces cycles, qui peuvent survenir à raison de 3 à 5 par nuit sont entrecoupés de courtes périodes d’éveil appelées sommeil intermédiaire. La personne n’a toutefois pas conscience de ces brefs moments. De nombreux rêves peuvent immerger de l’esprit d’une personne durant une nuit de repos sans toutefois qu’elle s’en souvienne au réveil. Dès que la personne entre de nouveau dans la phase du sommeil lent, 10 minutes suffisent pour que le rêve soit effacé de la mémoire. C’est pourquoi la plupart des gens ne se souviennent que du rêve qui a précédé leur éveil. (suite)
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pour toi Martin xxx

Croatie

  

Croatie

 

Puis nous nous sommes sauvés de Osijek parce que la drava semblait vouloir sortir de son lit tout comme le Danube. Ghislaine

Istanbul

 

Bonjour,

Nous avons quitté la place Taksim à Istanbul juste avant les émeutes. Ghislaine

Istanbul

 

 

et son skateboard

As detective Carol Jordan is set to move from downand-out Bradfield to a new post in nearby'and less crime-ridden'Worcester, Tony Hill, her longtime criminal-psychologist colleague, wonders if there might also be new horizons for their complicated relationship: he and Carol have been brought together professionally over the years by ruthless crimes, which has led to an undeniable'but maddeningly stalled'personal connection. But sex workers are being targeted and viciously killed in Bradfield, and it's up to Carol to determine if the murders are connected'and where the killer might strike next.Meanwhile, in a nearby prison, someone is dreaming of rare steak, fine wine'and revenge. Jacko Vance, former sports hero and TV celebrity, murdered almost twenty teenage girls before being caught. He knows exactly who is responsible for putting him behind bars, and Tony and Carol are at the top of the list. Following an audacious escape, he's on the loose and planning to teach them all a lesson they will never forget. Now the pair are squarely in a psychopath's crosshairs'and he's just getting started."

''Here's a picture of Suzanne at work...
Pretty cool !!! The art on the wall was done for her by one of the artists in-house. And people can bring their dogs, and their skateboards. My perfect place for work'' Martin

Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past...and put him in danger once more.

Santa Fe attorney Ed Eagle’s murderous ex-wife and assorted lesser satellites continue to hatch plots at cross-purposes, all as inconclusively as ever.

In the nine weeks since she was sent to a Mexican prison for attempted murder (Santa Fe Dead, 2008), Barbara Eagle Keeler hasn’t been wasting her time. She’s been using the episodes of rape by Warden Pedro Alvarez to gather information that will help her escape and work more havoc back in the United States. Assisted more directly by James Long, the film producer who’s not only her lover but the prospective colleague of Ed’s new wife Susannah Wilde, she hatches a plan to kill Ed and his bride. When they get a whiff of Barbara’s escape despite Alvarez’s insistence that she was merely transferred to another prison, Ed’s longtime private eyes, Cupie Dalton and Vittorio, decide that their best defense against her is a good offense. Not enough malfeasance for you? Soon after Ed gets the murder charges against his latest client, golf pro Tip Hanks, dismissed, Tip takes on a new personal assistant, Dolly Parks, who just happens to be the serial embezzler who killed Tip’s wife. Meanwhile, Todd Bacon, the CIA’s station chief in Panama, is hot in pursuit of Teddy Fay, the CIA agent turned assassin who’s eluded every attempt made to catch him. None of this violent, weightless intrigue goes anywhere, of course, but the dialogue, reeking with obtuse self-assurance, is full of guilty pleasures, from Ed’s admonition to Susannah (“If you keep on shooting people we’re going to end up in court”) to Barbara’s prayer entreating a disputed legacy from the Almighty (“If you’ll let me have this money, I’ll never kill anybody again, not even Ed Eagle!”).

Commentaires :“The book just ends without any plot being developed or anything being tied up.”
''This is by far the worst book Stuart Woods have written I just started reading about Ed Eagle and I was really begin to like his books.''
“There's so much better out there, there's no reason to waste one's time on stuff like this.” 



 

 

Leçons de skateboard

Rush hour on the underground and a killer is at large in London, striking apparently haphazardly in a series of vicious attacks. Andy Brewster, ex-SAS, on sick leave from active service in Iraq, works undercover for the Metropolitan police with his bomb expert partner, Burgess. Together they must find the killer before he strikes again. So far the victims have all been women with no apparent connection. Beth Hardy, former caterer who now runs a gourmet food shop; her daughter Imogen, dancing at the National; sad Celeste with her terrible secret; widowed Margaret, in town to shop; and American tourist, Ellie, stranded there alone. Each of them regularly travels by tube not knowing they could be potential victims. When the July 7 bombs go off and public awareness is raised, Brewster and Burgess have a race against time to apprehend the stalker. But danger comes not just from knives and bombs. Murder is deadlier when the heart is involve

Vraiment bizarre...mais on veut toujours en savoir plus...(sinon je ne l'aurais pas lu)... le punch arrive à la fin!

 

Journée au PIO de Longueuil

Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole - Over The Rainbow (1993)

It is every parent’s worst nightmare. Stephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at O’Hare airport when she is taken into a perspex box having set off the metal detectors. Made to wait outside, five-year-old Jimmy is led away, by hand, by a uniformed officer. Stephanie’s panic and shouts lead security to believe she is a threat, and she is tasered brutally to the ground amidst her screams of protest while Jimmy disappears into the distance unnoticed by anyone but her.

Stephanie becomes frantic when a uniformed man leads Jimmy away. The situation seems worse to Stephanie as she is a British citizen, in Chicago’s O’Hare airport traveling with a five year old to whom she is not related but plans to adopt.

Eventually she is able to convince agents from the FBI that she is blameless but by this time Jimmy has been abducted. Stephanie, a single woman who makes an adequate but less than glamorous salary, has an unusual relationship with young Jimmy. She had just finished ghost writing a book authored by a young woman made famous by her appearance on a reality television show. The woman, Scarlett Higgins, had a relationship with Joshu Patel, a rock star of dubious ability. Though Scarlett married Joshu shortly before Jimmy’s birth, Joshu has had little interest in his son. Jimmy makes his home in a “family” composed of his mother, a housekeeper, his aunt Leanne, and Stephanie.

As a reality television show star, Scarlett is presented as a beautiful but intellectually challenged young woman. As Stephanie grows to know her, she realizes that Scarlett is both smart and an accomplished enough actress to portray herself as barely literate. As the two women work on Scarlett’s biography, they become quite close especially during and after Jimmy’s birth.

The events leading to Stephanie’s trip from England to the United States with young Jimmy in tow are at once outlandish, yet perfectly reasonable. When the child is abducted there are numerous possibilities as to his abductor. The case becomes the joint project of FBI agent Vivian McKuras and Scotland Yard Detective Nick Nikolaides. Because Stephanie was at first a suspect and because she is close to both the family and Jimmy, she is able to offer insight and possible leads more quickly than either investigator could unearth.

Reading Vanishing Point is a learning experience. McDermid has done her homework and offers insights into the diverse elements of her narrative. For instance, in the opening scene at O’Hare airport she notes that unlike their European counterparts, a passenger in the United States only has to go through security once… at the point of origin of their trip. Therefore anyone who has arrived on another flight landing at O’Hare would be past the security checkpoint and would have the opportunity to abduct Jimmy.

Excellent et imprévisible...