🍵 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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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?!
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 …
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.
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal …
It has been far too long, old friend.
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …
Attempting to read nonfiction that is not SUPER depressing, I guess?
I am skeptical about this one, but it came unexpectedly soon in the library so let's hop to it.
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published on December 20, 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, …
I always forget how short this book is! A little fairy tale.
When you know the Disney Beauty and the Beast, the bones of this story are very apparent. But they're good bones. And though I don't like the first two-ish chapters, it does pick up nicely.
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel …
Well, that was cheerful. And I'm noticing so many more little similarities between Persuasion and P&P and the evolution from P&P to Persuasion is very interesting to think about. The use of the epistolary is so good.
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel …
The botched proposal, followed by the heartfelt letters, are such good scenes. Interesting how Persuasion also has the haughty, love forlorn man hand his lady a letter.