From "the Housekeeper" to Passionate Romances: How Our Readings Emancipate in the Summer (Whether or Not It Is Assumed)

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First loves, sparred murderous intrigues: the "leisure books", often criticized by the literary world, seduce very far in the round during the summer. Reading sometimes in hiding, by some only on holiday, they still hold many virtues.When it is said: some of you, the feet in the water, may have devoured the last Goncourt, annotated a dense philosophical essay or plunged back into the classics of three centuries ago. But there are also the others…