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Gersande La Flèche

gersande@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 6 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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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!)

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.