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Gersande La Flèche

gersande@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 5 months ago

Why can't I read all these books!? 🍋‍🟩

🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.

📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction et de fiction, de poésie, des classiques, du spéculatif, du réalisme magique, etc.

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2025 Reading Goal

50% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 6 of 12 books.

started reading Easy Money by Ben McKenzie

Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman: Easy Money (2023, Abrams, Inc.) No rating

“Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner, or the show,” contend Gotham actor McKenzie …

So @leifur mentioned this book to me last year and I forgot about it until I was rewatching a video on YouTube that mentioned the O.C. and had Ben McKenzie in the included clips, Leif mentioned the book again and now I'm going to read it. (I know, I know, I'm supposed to be reading more fiction, lalalala, this is fine!)

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Pierre Pevel: Les Enchantements d'Ambremer (French language, 2015) 5 stars

Une aventure de Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, mage du Cercle Cyan, sur rendez-vous uniquement. Un …

Lecture confortable qui fait rêver

5 stars

Ce premier tome du Paris des Merveilles, c'est une lecture doudou. Ca vend du rêve. Un Paris de la belle époque alternatif, avec des arbres qui parlents, des chats qui volent, des fées et autres créatures. On y suit les aventures d'un dandy mage et d'une fée cambrioleuse. On y est entraîné dans des enquêtes mystérieuses entre du trafic d'objets magiques, un enlèvement et quelques meurtres. Le tout saupoudré d'une bonne dose d'humour et de tendresse grâce à la relation particulière entre les deux personnages principaux.

Catherine Côté: Transformer ses ruines en ombre à paupières en dix étapes faciles (EBook, Hamac) 4 stars

Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …

Ted Reese: Socialism or Extinction (2020, Independently Published) No rating

"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …

I've been jumping around a lot. Read the first couple chapters after the introduction, bits of chapter 5, bits of chapters 8 and 9, and am about to read chapter 16, the "Hemp Chapter."

This book is frankly a bit on the disappointing side. Needs more commentary on the "extinction" or climate/environment side of things. Also from time to time, it's hard to pinpoint exact passages, there are moments when a worrisome lack of awareness of disability solidarity/justice rears its head and undermines his arguments.

I'll probably read chapter 16, then the post covid-19 update (is Reese a covid denier? My own digging on the subject left it kind of up in the air) and then shelve this book, admittedly half-read, but I have other things to do.