Pour la sortie du prochain roman de Carina
Rozenfeld et CJ Daugherty, The Secret Fire (Le Feu Secret), les éditions Atom
lancent une semaine autour du livre. Il s'agit en réalité d'un "Blog
tour", reliant des blogs et blogueurs français et anglais.
Aujourd'hui, je vous présente avec The Pewter Wolf, le résultat de plusieurs
semaines de collaboration. Notre article ? Vous allez bientôt le découvrir... Dans
l'esprit d'échange et de partage, le voici en anglais. N'hésitez pas à aller
faire un tour sur The Pewter Wolf
pour la traduction française !
Je vous laisse donc faire connaissance avec Sacha
et Taylor, l'un français et l'autre anglaise, les deux personnages principaux
du roman... Merci à Carina Rozenfeld et CJ Daugherty de s'être mises dans leur
peau pour nous répondre ! Et pour vous mettre dans l'ambiance, voici une playlist avec quatorze artistes et chansons cités dans l'article...
Bonne lecture !
Welcome to our blogs, Sacha and Taylor.
Before we go any further, give us a little bit of info about yourselves.
Sacha : My
name is Sacha Winters. I live in Paris and I'm 17 years old, soon 18
(unfortunately). I live with my mother and my little sister in an apartment in
the west of Paris. My father died, a few years ago, in a car crash. My peculiarity? I can’t die, not until I’m 18, and I can tell you it’s really screwing up my life...
Why do you think your teacher, Mr Deide for
Sacha and Mr Finlay for Taylor, put you forward for this blog post?
Sacha : Because he likes to give me extra
work ? It's his big specialty. But I like him. He is the only teacher of the
High School that is a bit interested in me. So maybe he asked me, indeed, to
prove me that he likes me… in his own way!
Taylor : He’s always doing things like this. To be honest, I think
he’s more obsessed with me getting into Oxford than I am. But he’s a pretty
good teacher.
What lessons do you like? And what lessons
don't you like?
Sacha : When I went to class, I liked
history because my father was a medievalist historian ; English is easy because my father, who was from England, would always speak to me in English. I do okay in other classes. But all of this belongs to the past.
Taylor : I love history and French. Science is kind of cool. I also
love maths. Actually, there are no classes I don’t like! I can’t wait for uni,
though. That’s when things will really get interesting.
Where do you see yourself in
five years time? Do you see yourself in further education, traveling the world,
or doing something different?
Sacha : Haha, this is a joke, isn't it? I
don't even think I'll be alive in five years! I shall remind you that I have to
die in 8 weeks, the day of my 18th birthday! So in five years, if I get
there... We'll see at this time.
Taylor : I’m going to study archaeology at St Wilfred’s, Oxford.
That’s all there is to it. It will happen. Then I’m going to grad school. In
five years, I’ll be an archaeologist. You wait and see.
Do you believe the past is important for our
future?
Sacha : It's the past that makes me who I
am today. It's my family's past that chases me again, and that is both a burden
and a treasure. The past is the grounding of each individual. Without it, we
are new-borns. Now, I would have preferred mine to be... lighter, we'll say!
Because for now, it doesn't help me to consider my future. Bloody hell, I'm
getting confused with these questions!
Taylor : ABSOLUTELY. We build our cities on top of past cities. And we build our lives on top of past lives. How can the past not be important? It’s part of us.
Now that we have asked the
boring questions, let’s talk music. What kind of music do you like?
Sacha :
Now, I admit that I listen to not-so-happy things. I like when it's about
death, the fact of being a monster, being different. I was more like the Care
Bears before, but we'll say that time changes. These last days, I've been
listening to Nirvana again and again. Maybe I feel a connection with Kurt
Kobain. I'll tell him if I see him after my death.
Taylor : My best friend Georgie is obsessed with Taylor Swift, and I
kind of like her, too. But I’m a little more indie, myself. When Georgie isn’t
around to complain about it, I listen to bands like First Aid Kit and Neko
Case.
Do you have a song you really like right now?
Sacha : Creep by Radiohead.
Taylor : There’s a song called ‘When I Grow Up’ by First Aid Kit
that I’m listening to a lot. It’s a little old but it’s good.
What does it make you think about?
Sacha : That I'm not the only one to feel
bad, to think that I'm weird; that I don't understand why I'm like this and how
I can change it.
Taylor : Being able to make my own decisions, and do what I want.
Being brave.
Do you have a song you like to
listen to when you're not in a good mood?
Sacha :
I am not often in a good mood lately.
Taylor : I’m always in a good mood!!
Do you have a song that motivates you no
matter what?
Sacha : I don't remember. Before, I used
to listen to songs that gave me energy, made me want to sing, to dance, to
laugh. I don't remember how it was...
Taylor : Do you know the song Boom Clap? I love it!
One final question: what was the last song
you listened to?
Sacha : Losing my religion by REM. It is
about loss of everything : confidence, faith, love. « That was just a dream. »
Maybe this is my life. A dream, a nightmare...
Taylor : Georgie was over last
night and she was in charge of the music so OF COURSE it was Bad Blood, by
Taylor Swift. It always is.
Thank you so
much Sacha and Taylor for answering my questions!
And a huge thank you to Carina Rozenfeld and
CJ Daugherty!
