Well-being, well-being, social life, children, family, friendly or romantic relationships… The essay rankings may have undergone some upheavals, but personal development in all its forms continues to take over this fall. Thus, beyond Jean-Michel Blanquer (4th) and Simone Veil (7th), who are making a splash for their publisher Albin Michel, the Top 20 best-selling essays welcomes, this week from September 2 to 8, a pioneer in the field of traumatic inheritance who is interested in hereditary disorders that can take the form of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, phobias, obsessive thoughts… In This pain is not mineMark Wolynn, that’s his name, gives us, according to his publisher, Courrier du livre, “powerful tools to free ourselves from the suffering of our ancestors”.
Three places further down, in 9th place, comes Mathieu Ceschin, a former farmer who became known in season 15 of the show. Love is in the meadowToday he talks about his struggle to become a father on his own. My fight to become a father. The incredible GPA journey of a single dad (Leduc), such is the title of this intimate story which has the good fortune to please the public. He too is interested in children, but those of others, the kids from Marseille, the burnt as they call each other, lookouts or prostitutes with burnt destinies. Journalist residing in the Phocaean city, Philippe Pujol, winner of the Albert Londres prize, thus closes with Burned. The Monster’s Children (Julliard) his Marseille trilogy after The Monster Factory (ten years immersed in the northern districts, The Arenas, 2016) and The Fall of the Monster (on the political-mafia system, Seuil, 2019).
She sees children all day long, and she rejoices in them. Myriam Meyer, a French, Latin and Greek teacher in a Réseau d’éducation prioritaire middle school, describes her years spent passing on her passion for literature to “exhausting and endearing” young people (her words). Neither spite nor anger in this Hey, Madam?! Laughter and tears of a suburban teacher (Robert Laffont, 17th), but on the contrary “a true declaration of love to his students, their teachers, and the school of the Republic”. One’s health capital must be taken care of from a young age, of course. Fortunately, the good doctor Michel Cymes (assisted by the journalist Patrice Romedenne) is there to give young and old alike advice on how to maintain it, as many “simple and easy gestures to put into practice in all circumstances” that can be discovered in Cheers, it’s your turn! (Solar, 20th).
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The only exceptions to all these authors of “well-being” among the arrivals of the week are the historians Lucie Malbos and Joël Cornette, who deliver to us with The Peoples of the North. From Fródi to Harald the Merciless. 1st-11th century (Belin) a thousand-year-old history of Scandinavia “with details and nuances”. Refreshing, isn’t it?
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