The 3 best books by Katherine Pancol

Sometimes you know it well Katherine Pancol, narrative formulas appear as popular as fables that curiously end up reconquering their space. Because in the past everything was fables, legends, songs and even poems as a way of making narratives that reached that common imaginary of the people.

Now things are more difficult and yet it happens. Like an atavistic taste for the fantastic inserted in our world, a search for the allegorical and the remote from the personalization of animals as a necessary focus to see the panorama from another approach.

As I say, in Katherine's case it worked and her yellow eyed crocodile he found readers in any corner of the world. And although everything black swan that marks a strange success should not be confused as perpetual glory, Pancol has been re-adapting his formula and reaping new successes in the same line of argument as his great hit.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Katherine Pancol

The yellow eyes of the crocodiles

For a simple love story, and also with complementary touches as naive these days as its fabulous appearance can be, for that story to end up triumphing, empathy must be the differential fact and the hook.

A hook that encourages you to continue reading as if that story of possible loves, disenchantments and new hopes were happening to that younger you who was not yet the cynical or savvy cynic of today ;)This novel takes place in Paris, but we meet with crocodiles. This novel is about men. And of women. The women we are, the ones we would like to be, the ones we will never be and the ones we might be one day. This novel is the story of a lie. But it is also a story of love, friendship, betrayal, money, dreams. This novel is full of laughs and tears. This novel is like life itself.

The yellow eyes of the crocodiles

From outside

Discovering from time to time a romantic novel but with its edges is very good. Love can also be that which emerges as a placebo for a tedious life, for a reality meticulously constructed towards happiness and that ends up sounding like a discordant orchestra of blinded musicians.

Doudou finds the time to discover that she is not as happy as she appears to others and to herself. It is enough with the evocation of an old courtship, with the whisper of a voice coming from the radio waves to understand that if she remains still she is going to end up drowning in those quicksands that are her life. Doudou considers that sometimes she has to flee from herself, or at least mutate and leave her memories locked in an old house. Adventure is the only possible way out of a monotony that seems extremely uncomfortable and alienating.

Together with Guillaume, Doudou embarks on a journey to nowhere aboard a motorcycle... But of course, this dedication to new love, to vitalism leaves pending bills. Finding a balance between that self that marks a new journey and the family that she leaves behind, including children, seems like an impossible task. A journey to rediscover everything after the vital hiatus that led her to become something she never imagined being. . An awareness that leads to a fast-paced story between love and silenced regrets. Freedom in her most transcendent decision: searching for her true self.

From outside

Central Park Chipmunks are sad on Mondays

The closing of a trilogy as candid as it is applauded. What is usually called a breath of fresh air to renew always dark trends, very black plots or unstructured arguments towards the avant-garde of literature. Simplicity was a great part of the success of this trilogy.

Life often has fun and, hidden in a word, a smile, a subway ticket or the fold of a curtain, gives us a diamond capable of meeting all our expectations. For Joséphine, the diamond could be the proposal of her editor of writing a new novel, Philippe's calls that he does not answer, or the unconditional friendship of his friend Shirley.

Will Joséphine be Philippe's diamond? And which one is Shirley after? Around these three characters, a whole range of young people -Hortense, Gary, Zoé, Alexandre- also search for the diamond that will change their lives forever, letting themselves be guided by those small stones that they find along the way. Because if we stop for a moment, if we observe carefully and dare to take what an outstretched hand offers us, life will probably no longer be covered in sadness. Neither Saturday, nor Sunday, nor Monday

Central Park Chipmunks are sad on Mondays

Other recommended books by Katherine Pancol…

Weird guys fall in love too

Rose is a young biologist based in Paris and dedicated to the study of Lamprohiza splendidula, a variety of dragonfly that promises to bring great advances in medical research.

Although Rose is an excellent researcher and her work on the sexual chemistry of insects and their reproduction is very notable, on a personal level she feels completely helpless. Lately she seems to have problems with human relationships in general and with Leo in particular, the researcher with whom she has been working for several months and with whom she has fallen madly in love.

And life is not like a laboratory, and it will not be her mother (hidden behind huge dark glasses) or her grandmother (who speaks with God and with her toes) who will be able to help her.

This is the story of a weirdo in love, willing to overcome any barrier that life or his personality imposes on the difficult path of love and happiness.

Weird guys fall in love too
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