Finally finished the introduction and am far from convinced I will read this book to the end.
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🍵 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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Gersande La Flèche wants to read Püha ja õudne lõhn by Robert Kurvitz
Gersande La Flèche commented on Burnout by Hannah Proctor
Gersande La Flèche quoted Burnout by Hannah Proctor
Guevara admits to his own flaws: while able to endure a poor diet and worn-out shoes, he withdrew too often from the group to read.
— Burnout by Hannah Proctor (Page 12)
Mood! On Guevara's Congo Diary.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Burnout by Hannah Proctor
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Gersande La Flèche replied to Nicholas Boyd Isacsson's status
@nichobi@bookwyrm.social I tried reading Pratchett in release order (started in 2019 or 2020?) and was strongly advised by many Pratchett fans to not do that, haha! But I should get back to reading through the Pratchett canon!
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From …
Gersande La Flèche replied to Nicholas Boyd Isacsson's status
@nichobi@bookwyrm.social A classic at this time of year.
Gersande La Flèche replied to pixouls@bookwyrm.social's status
@pixouls@bookwyrm.social I read it years ago for a university class on literature and technology and similarly found it fascinating yet very outdated.
Gersande La Flèche stopped reading The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead …
Had to return book to the library. I plan on getting back to it one day.
Gersande La Flèche replied to gz's status
@godzero@sfba.social Read the book. It dives into just that question very very thoroughly!
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals …
Gersande La Flèche quoted Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the …
[L]et's acknowledge that we are asking individual women to compensate for the medical system's failures. While some patients may want to be partners in their medical care, and the Internet has certainly made it easier for some patients to educate themselves, not all women have the vast resources required to become "empowered patients."
— Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery (61%)
More knowledge is a false illusion of empowerment anyways, and is in no way able to bring balance to a harmful patient-doctor power dynamic.
Gersande La Flèche quoted Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the …
We should all be afraid of what the story of contested illnesses like ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, and chemical intolerance says about the medical system's ability or inability to recognize and respond to emerging diseases.
— Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery (59%)
Add to that Covid-19, HIV/AIDS, and so many other illnesses...