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Ezra Tellington

Tellington@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

Petit rat de bibliothèque qui a beaucoup de mal à lire. J'ai 32 ans, je suis non-binaire (iel+neutre/masc) et vous pouvez me retrouver sur @tellington@eldritch.cafe. J'aime un peu tous les genres sauf l'horreur et le policier. Je lis (et écris) en français et en anglais.

Lil' bookworm who has a hard time reading. I'm 32, non-binary (they/them) and you can find me at @tellington@eldritch.cafe. I like almost every genre except horror and mystery/crime novels. I read (and write) in French and English.

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Anne-Fleur Multon: À croquer (French language, 2025, Éditions Thierry Magnier) No rating

Commencé (livre papier), j'ai lu quelques chapitres (les chapitres sont très courts) et je ne suis pas trop convaincu-e mais on m'en a dit beaucoup de bien donc bon je vais persister.

Sylvie Dodelier: Space Girls (Paperback, français language, L'école des loisirs) No rating

Je devais le lire parce que les femmes astronautes c'est mon sujet préféré, bien sûr j'ai rien appris sur ça spécifiquement mais c'était vaguement sympa. Première fois depuis x temps que je finis un livre papier.

Sarah Schulman: Let the Record Show (2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) No rating

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive …

I keep listening to audiobooks at work that make me cry, right now I'm almost sobbing at the complete retranscription of Vito Russo's Why We Fight speech (that you can also find online)

Tom Wolfe: I am Charlotte Simmons (2005) No rating

I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status …

I guess you always have a different outlook on a favorite book of your teenage years when you re-read it as an adult... This one irritated me a lot, the author is right wing and it SHOWS. Also I found the characters insufferable which I don't think I did when I was 15?

Reads like a mildly good fanfic

There were boring moments, there were really moving moments but my overall impression is that it was so tropey. Some parts were like fun fanfiction but I often had a hard time suspending my disbelief over the setting and all these convenient-for-storytelling quirks.

I just realized how weird it is that a ~16yo is dubbed "sexiest poet" in a magazine or something. Like is it a competition for/about teenagers (how many famous and sexy teenager poets are there?) or is he considered sexier than adult poets/in the eyes of adults?