Breathe, My Love

Many thanx to Lausanne FBC for selecting *Die, My Love* as our August 2026 read !! ;-D As I’ll be Gone Daddy Gone in August, I’m keen to put my own copy (EN version) into your collective hands on Lundi de Pentecôte 2026 at this event: Yoga & BookSwap on Monday 25th May … I hope to see some lovelies who can’t normally make it to the group’s evening gatherings !! ;-D

Breathe, My Love

Sun 17th May 2026

For anyone who hasn’t met me, my name is V!v and I’m the dark-skinned lady in the photo above … prone to impromptu street yoga if / when the mood strikes !! ;-D

Lundi de Pentecôte 2026

To be clear about the Yoga & Book Swap gig referenced in this post, please kindly note that details, hosts (Rebecca & Carla [not the Sarkozy one ;-D]) & online sign-up are available below via MeetUp.com:

The book that I (V!v ;-D) will bring to swap (or give away) is Ariana Harwicz‘s *Die, My Love* (EN)… Lausanne FBC’s Aug 2026 pick !! ;-D I get that most of y’all won’t have read it just yet but I’d love to know why y’all voted for it …

Ariana Speaks ;-D

*Die, My Love* Book Chat ;-D

Now. Please allow me to dial it back a bit. I got interested in Ariana’s *Die, My Love* book via the interview below. I watched the interview twice, ordered it via BBB, then pitched it to Lausanne FBC in 2025. I was pleasantly surprised when it got voted in as a 2026 read. Clearly y’all must be fired up & / or pissed off about something …

Queen MockingJay Takes Charge ;-D

*Die, My Love* Film ;-D

Also. Legend has it that Martin Scorsese read Ariana’s book. He then contacted Jennifer Lawrence and told her that (to paraphrase ;-D) — if anyone had the balls to put it onto the big screen — she’d make a great lead for *Die, My Love* …

Back to the Book

Creve, Mon Amour (FR)

Although I read (ok skimmed) the book in English, I realise in retrospect that I might have connected w/ it more viscerally if I’d read it as *Crève, mon amour* (FR) …

Dans un coin de campagne perdu, une jeune femme lutte contre ses démons : l’ennui des jours, le tourment des nuits, le sentiment d’aliénation – à soi-même et au monde – les pulsions de désir et de violence qui sans cesse l’assaillent et viennent peu à peu fissurer le tableau d’une vie domestique en apparence sans histoires.

https://www.babelio.com/livres/Harwicz-Creve-mon-amour/1186966

Babelio

*Creve, mon amour*

Matate, amor (ES)

I wonder who’s planning to read the book in Spanish ?! Seems that Ariana had this to say …

“Palabra por palabra, frase por frase, coma por coma, punto por punto, nada fue corregido ni alterado por ningún editor en ninguna edición.”

-Ariana Harwicz

https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-matate-amor/9788433948168/17114018

Casa del Libro

*Matate, amor*

Die, My Love (EN)

Alrighty back to my own language !! I found this utterly fabulous, mind-blowing SumReads write-up and decided that it would do just fine as a bookend to this post. It’s dense and contains one rogue mention of 核心 (héxīn), which somehow makes me wonder if it was AI-generated by a Chinese tool w/ a sense of humor ?! ;-D

The novel opens with the protagonist already entrenched in a life that feels suffocating and alien to her. She lives in a remote farmhouse in the French countryside with her husband—a Frenchman who represents stability, tradition, and the conventional life she both sought and now desperately wishes to escape.

https://www.sumreads.com/books/Die-My-Love.html

SumReads

*Die, My Love*

The SumReads review is structured, making it easier — at least for me — to read than Ariana’s book. And it trips me out b/c it feels like an eerily accurate write-up about ma vie en “Suisse Profonde” avec un mec du coin … what’s the name of this post again … where’s my vagus nerve … BumbleBee breathing … hmmmmmmmmm … ok … much better … thanx !! ;-D Anyhoo … I hope to see y’all soon at this event:

… even if you’ve no interest in Ariana’s book !! ;-D

August 2026

As for the *Die, My Love* August 2026 bookchat w/ Lausanne FBC … oh my I just noticed that the date has been fixed for 27th Aug 2026 @ the same lovely spot where I put my copy of the book into the hands of Cléa !! ;-D If I can get Laura’s buy-in, maybe I’ll pitch a a virtual journalling exercise as an element for this session. I’ll be on a Swiss Detox (life-saving-rampage ;-D) in August so we’ll see WTF I / we manage to pull off. ;-D

In the meantime, do please *Breathe, My Love* and exercise your right to BumbleBee breathing … anyone who doesn’t like it can get the f* … well … you know what I mean …

XXOOXXOO … V! ;-D