Let us know what you are reading in French today!
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Kicking this off but not expecting too many replies as it will take awhile for French learners to find this site + the forums.
I’m currently paused on La Passe-miroir: Les Disparus du Clairdelune | L30?? until my test is over because I want to dive in and read it with no distractions. I’m lazily reading through J'étais un autre et vous ne le saviez pas | L30?? as I figure it’s decent test prep (first person semi-formal writing) but honestly shocked by how boring a book about spies is turning out to be.
I think I burned myself out a bit with test prep though and found myself fleeing to easy material which is why I’m partially through the manga/BD Le château solitaire dans le miroir T02 | L24?? and just started Korea Monster Agency | L28?? last night.
I’m planning a giant binge read (in three languages) once my test is over next week and I can’t wait 
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Trying to get back into French reading. I read 2M words, and then stopped because I wanted to increase my CI hours and improve my French subvocalization before I continued. Well that was two years and 500 hours of French ago… I keep picking up books, reading the first chapter and dropping them.
Hopefully now is the time to finish Annie Ernaux, La Place. She only won the Nobel Prize in literature since I last attempted it! And it’s literally only 103 pages. I can do this!
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Ooh, I’ve never heard of that series, but it sounds nice! I don’t know if I’ll ever have the time to get to it, but I’m going to put it on my wishlist.
Edit: also volumes 1 and 2 are available at a local library, in French too! Currently being rented though, but that still makes it much more realistic for me to read the first book at least.
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Hello!
I use Natively for Japanese content but I read a lot in French, my second language.
I’m a big fan of Guy de Maupassant. In my opinion, his works are more learner-friendly and I found them to be quite fun as I was learning French (as opposed to a writer such as Balzac who gives me a headache). Une vie is probably my favorite.
Currently I’m reading Fort comme la mort.
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I’ve decided to dabble in BDs again and found La Princesse des glaces | L26?? which I’m just under 40% done with. It’s an adaptation of a Nordic noir novel and a very easy read so far. It’s a smidge gory (so far one very explicit panel of an autopsy) so not for everyone, but I’m enjoying it a lot and think the level would make it a good choice for ~B1 learners.
I also bought some BDs adapting Agatha Christie works which I’ll try next.
Also, while I’m listening and not reading, I started ACOTAR T1: Un Palais d'épines et de roses | L28?? because I can ‘cheat’ a bit and look up information if I don’t understand something. I’ve never read the book in any language but the massive popularity of it helps for comprension checks. I’d love to unlock regular audiobooks in French without worrying about missing things so this (and other translated works) are a bit of bridge for me to get there.
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Tonight I’ve begun reading India, La Fée Des Pierres de Lune (L16 ??), from the Rainbow Magic series I read a ton of as a kid (though I don’t believe I had previously read the gemstone fairies). I’ve read a handful of these so far this year, and most of them took me some time to get from cover to cover, but after rereading Le Petit Prince (L24) I suddenly feel like I can just blow through my fairy books, which I must say, absolutely rules. My reading skills have returned form the war and it’s exciting to simply fly through the first 40% or so at once, and be able to see what the girls are up to with relative ease compared to a couple of months ago. 
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Now that I’ve read all of the jewel fairy books that I own, I’m moving on to the flower fairies (which is the first sub-series that I’ve managed to get my hands on in full so far ), beginning with #1: Téa, la fée des tulipes (L16 ??). This is one that I specifically remember reading repeatedly as a child, but I honestly remember more about Téa’s outfit than I do about the plot. Maybe more will come to me as I get further through it. 
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