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On Mar 11, 2025

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“PFor this fourth edition of the quarter of an hour of national reading, we wanted to make an impression with a strong proposal: “Turn off your laptop, turn on your brain, read.” Our studies carried out with Ipsos reveal a decrease in time spent on reading (19 minutes a day in 2023 against 23 minutes in 2022). The French devote an average of 41 minutes a day to reading books (paper and digital) when they spend 3 h 14 per day on screens, to do something other than reading books, “explains Régine Hatchondo, president of the National Book Center.

Hence the significance of this assembly of this Tuesday, March 11, of which The level is a companion, with 600 quarters of an hour scheduled in all places in France, and on the branches of France Télévisions, a brief program which takes up a slogan of Joël Dicker: “Open a brand new chapter of your life: develop into reader. »»

Read too This Tuesday, let’s learn for quarter-hour (and extra if affinities!)For fifteen symbolic minutes, all French persons are invited to take a e-book. “We were able to count this year on the involvement of many personalities such as the author Sandrine Collette (Goncourt of high school students and Goncourt prizes for prisoners 2024), Kamel Daoud, Gaël Faye, Marie Ndiaye, Abdellah Taïa, Hélène Gaudy, Thomas Clerc, Wajdi Mouawad, Maylis de Kerangal or even Augustine Trapenard, Thierry Marx, Mory Sacko, Christophe Honoré and Bartabas as well as that of rappers and influencers very appreciated by young people like Benjamin Epps, Lord Esperanza, Damys and Audrey du Boust des Voins, “continues Régine Hatchondo, who’s apprehensive in regards to the variety of younger folks saying that they don’t wish to learn: they’re 19 % in 2024 (31 % within the 16-19 years).

A spectacular occasion will happen on the Panthéon at 6:30 p.m., to rekindle studying collectively by an set up entitled “Giant thoughts”, designed by Nicolas Frize and the sound engineer Alain French: “The languages of Aimé Césaire, Marie Curie, Alexandre Dumas … will mix with those of Emmy Bridgewater or Yaro Abe, for a living dialogue and, I hope In echoing this operation, we brought together a quartet of writers, who agreed to answer the following question: what if you only had a quarter of an hour to read?

Véronique Ovaldé: “Read whereas climbing her staircase”

“I’m one of many individuals who reside at 6^e flooring with out elevator and that learn up the staircase – attempt, it is nice, you would quietly climb 25 levels effortlessly. And once I know I’m going to have 1 / 4 of an hour in entrance of me, I take a group of reports and I learn one. Absolutely excellent pleasure/fiction relationship. Yesterday I learn the scrumptious I’m murakami by Benjamin Hoffmann. The quick format of vital zone books lends itself very properly to those quarters of an hour of ready, switch, and tedious stairs … “

Last book published: To our imperfect lives.

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: “all potential poetry”

“Perhaps it’s crucial to offer extra stake to the factor and to marvel no what you’ll learn if we had fifteen minutes, however what we’d learn if we had solely fifteen minutes. Personally, no novels – it will be tossed to die barely open The world collapsesor caught between two chapters of Crime and punishment … Between two verses, that will be higher, I might subsequently learn what may confuse eternity and quarter of an hour, poetry: that of Césaire (LAGUARY Calendar), that of Dylan Thomas (In The Beginning), that of tchicaya u tam’si (Paradox), that of Pizarnik (Ash rings), that of Juarroz (No one begins the place he desires). All potential poetry. »»

Last e-book revealed: The most secret reminiscence of males (Philippe Rey, the pocket e-book). Mohamed Mbougar Sarr might be on the Maison de la Poésie, in Paris, March 12.

Sandrine Collette: “Before sleeping, like a blessed”

“Spending a lot of time in the woods, where I do not take a book, I read systematically and only in the evening, to fall asleep, it probably comes from the time of childhood where, to fall asleep, I was read stories. It’s my nest, my cocoon, and after a quarter of an hour, I am relaxed, like a blessed. At the moment, I read a book recommended by a bookseller, I love a bookseller to choose for me, it isIn time of sharks and saviors of Kawai Strong Washburn, and I am about to start Emma Picard by Mathieu Belezi, a novelist whose writing absolutely magnificent. »»

Last book published: Madelaine before dawn (JC Lattès).

Olivier Rolin: “Take a novel by Conrad”

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“This quarter of an hour of studying might be devoted to at least one or the opposite of my two studying regimes: if I’m at residence, it will be that, obsessive, virtually sickly, which consists in documenting myself for a piece in progress, at present all that I can discover of scientist on the Trojan War. Or, to a much less laborious weight loss plan, which consists in studying earlier than falling asleep, or on the go, the books of the authors associates, or that curiosity me, both in the intervening time I write the iliad by Pierre Michon, Bristol by Jean Echenoz, Stop on childhoodthe newest e-book by Manuela Draeger/Antoine Volodine, All handed with out dreadof my brother Jean, and once more Surla day by Maylis de Kérangal. Or, as often, take up a novel by Joseph Conrad. »»

Last e-book revealed: To the scattered islands (ed. Verdier).

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