🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc.
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41% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 5 of 12 books.
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo …
This should be very short (?!?! I hope/think???) but I am looking forward to reading this, because toxic masculinity is an evergreen problem, but particularly green right now.
Samantha Sotto: Water Moon (EBook)
A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a …
A searing critique of Canada’s long-standing reliance on corporate subsidies.
From the railroad excesses of …
Really excited to read this, found it through this fascinating interview on the Hatchet with Laurent Carbonneau.
A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …
Wait, the key words used to describe this are incredible:
queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo
DANG I want to read this. @leifur have you seen this?!
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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge …
Begins where Innocent Hearts ends.
The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, but …
A really fun book, better than the first in a lot of ways. It stretches a ton of credibility so you do have to sort of... accept this is a very rosey look into the past (and into trauma, which despite what the poets will claim is not cured with the Power of Love). But the characters are compelling, and Radclyffe is no slouch as a writer, so it's fun. I liked Vance, a lot. Reminded me of a gay Blueberry but like... in a good way.
Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …
Beaucoup de petits moments drôles — j'ai aimé « le bord de l'apocalypse » dans l'introduction et dans la liste « Vingt-cinq choses qui prouvent que tu vis une crise du quart de vie » il y a des éléments très hilarants. Je ne connais pas la poète, donc je ne sais pas si c'est son premier recueil, mais il y a un petit je ne sais quoi qui me fais penser que c'est un premier recueil.
Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …
J'ai eu un petit moment ce matin où j'ai compris que je ne me souvenais plus de la dernière fois que j'ai lu un poème en français écrit après 1910 donc je me suis dit qu’il fallait qu'je corrige ça. J'ai trouvé ce bouquin sur le site de la BANQ, j'ai aimé le titre, on verra bien ce que ça donne!
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Sigh. Reese is apparently one of those hemp Marxists, which is fine but exhausting. Also the dude is apparently a covid denier, according to a friend of a friend who knows him, so I might not be finishing this book apart from reading ch 5 and 12 for book club.
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Capitalism per se is responsible for the existential climate crisis: the labour-intensity (profitability) involved in extracting fossil fuels and metals and converting them into commodities makes plundering nature increasingly necessary. The ever-rising demands of capital accumulation require an ever-greater intensity and expansion of extraction and an ever-greater mass of commodities.
— Socialism or Extinction by Ted Reese (Page 12)
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Earth’s “sixth mass extinction” is well underway: up to 50% of all individual animals have been lost in recent decades and almost half of land mammals have lost 80% of their range in the last century. Vertebrate populations have fallen by an average of 60% since the 1970s, and in some countries there has been an even faster decline of insects – vital, of course, for aerating the soil, pollinating blossoms, and controlling insect and plant pests. [...] Even more frighteningly, a 3.5 Celsius rise is considered by some to be ”the extinction point”, because: "the food chain collapses, oceanic plankton dies off, and terrestrial vegetation is severely limited. The grasslands we use for agriculture are threatened the most. The extinction of species will create chaos. For example, the disappearance of bees will create enormous problems with pollination. The acidification of the oceans depletes the oxygen in the waters. Temperatures higher than the extinction point are being predicted, not by crackpots, ideologues or sci-fi writers, but by serious scientists."
— Socialism or Extinction by Ted Reese (Page 5)
... I did not know that about the 3,5 Celsius.
Motherfuckers.
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Need to read chapter 5 and 12 for a bookclub and might try to tackle more of the book, though it is a little on the dense side so I don't know if I have the energy for it.
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated …
