{"id":2004751,"date":"2011-05-16T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2011\/05\/16\/say-mom-why-arent-i-a-boy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:02:31","slug":"say-mom-why-arent-i-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2011\/05\/16\/say-mom-why-arent-i-a-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Say, Mom, why aren’t I a boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With her latest book, <\/em>101 good reasons to be happy being a girlB\u00e9atrice Masini (journalist and writer) succeeds in making boys jealous. Just the thing to reassure all the ladies! <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>It’s not the new feminist pamphlet, but it’s close… In any case, girls will be able to boast of having their own bedside book. In the style of Pr\u00e9vert’sInventaire <\/em>, with humor and tenderness, B\u00e9atrice Masini (who already won us over with 101bonnes raisons de se r\u00e9jouir d’\u00eatre un enfant<\/em> and 101 bonnes raisons de se r\u00e9jouir de lire<\/em>) presents us with the joys of being a girl. Whether you have “a certain tendency to fall in love (reason 34)” or a “certain tendency to take this way of falling in love very seriously (35)”, whether you’re “sentimental (39)” or “demanding (40)”, whether you can “during sleepovers make pacts with your blood – without spilling too much, if possible (55)”, whether you decide “one day to be a fairy (63)”, and “the next day a witch (64)”, the truth is : you “can be anyone you want to be (100)”.What’s more, we’ll live longer than the boys (101). And we’ll have plenty of other reasons to rejoice… <\/p>\n

Illustrated by Guillaume Long (winner of the 2003 T\u00f6pffer Prize for his book Les Sardines sont cuites<\/em>), each good reason is in itself a lively, funny little story. With teasing drawings pointing out feminine foibles or highlighting girls’ fantasies and imaginations, this acid-pink book is sure to get moms hooked, too. <\/p>\n

Attention all those who are nostalgic for their childhood!<\/p>\n

101 raisons de se r\u00e9jouir d’\u00eatre une fille<\/em>, la Joie de Lire, Geneva, April 2011.<\/p>\n

by Odile Woesland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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