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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The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, …
Finished this morning. Book has a handful of myopic moments, probably best described in the latter chapter on QAnon's international reach. Several chapters were very interesting, completely scribbled on with highlights and notes.
Content warning CW: QAnon
The book is definitely interesting but I am sometimes struggling to read right now because I'm absolutely exhausted. And this topic is absolutely exhausting. I'm taking some notes on the culty things I notice, mostly.
Just finished the introduction. Nothing that wasn't familiar to me thus far, though I'd forgotten a lot. Will keep going.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
I finished this book exactly a month ago but I think about it often and even thought about rereading it this week, though I've got a few more nonfictionny books I'd like to squeeze in before the end of the year. I really appreciated Lawrence Wright's tone, approach, exposition. Everything about his narrative style really appealed to me. And every now and then there would be absolutely hilarious yet dry turns of phrase that made me chuckle. The subject matter is not funny at all, and in fact the book is often a bit chilling, but for me I kept turning pages not because of lurid subject matter but because the narrative style was so engaging.
After the big disappointment that was Operation Mindfuck (sincerely, save your precious time and avoid it) my research continues with Will Sommer's book. I'm several pages in and already it's so much better written and easier to follow. Fiou.
Anxiété, angoisse, migraine, insomnie, côlon irritable, fibromyalgie, épuisement, etc.
Avez-vous déjà considéré la possibilité que …
Lecture fortement conseillée par ma travailleuse sociale, donc je plonge.
Sequel to "Shards of Honor". The two were later published together under the title "Cordelia's …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List
By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List.
VIIe-XIIe siècles
« Guerriers et paysans est l'histoire d'un démarrage, celui de l'économie européenne entre …
Ça fait un bout qu'il traine sur mon bureau. Temps de le lire.
Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the …
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change …
This looks interesting! Hoping for linguistic nerdiness.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
Very interesting.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
Content warning CW: Scientology; High-Demand Religious Movements and Cults
Sincerely, I thought I knew L. Ron Hubbard was a bad guy. I did not know how much of a bad dude this man was.
Holy fucking smokes.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
Content warning CW: Scientology; High-Demand Religious Movements and Cults
I don't know why I'm surprised to discover a connection between Alister Crowley and Ron Hubbards but yes, there is a religious/magical connection between Alister Crowley and Rob Hubbards through Pretty Gross Dude John W. Parsons, and Hubbards wanted to become the Beast and dominate the earth after Crowley's passing.