Gersande La Flèche started reading Guerriers et paysans by Georges Duby
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.
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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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Gersande La Flèche rated Operation Mindfuck: 1 star
Operation Mindfuck by Robert Guffey
Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change …
This looks interesting! Hoping for linguistic nerdiness.
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
Very interesting.
Gersande La Flèche commented on Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
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.
Gersande La Flèche commented on Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
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.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
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
Starting this because of research I'm currently doing.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …
Oh my goodness.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our …
Huh. Interesting?
Gersande La Flèche commented on Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein
How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine
Israel’s military industrial complex uses …
Genuinely having a hard time not adding this entire book into quotes on Millefeuilles because every paragraph is extremely quotable.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein
How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine
Israel’s military industrial complex uses …
Reading a few chapters of this for a bookclub Sunday, may attempt to read the whole thing, depends on time and a few different factors.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Déclic by Maxime Guedj
Véritable manuel d’autodéfense du citoyen connecté, Déclic contient des fiches pratiques proposant des solutions pour …
Oooh ça a l'air super.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappe
Hear Ilan Pappé speak on Al Jazeera and immediately bought this book because 1) it sounds incredibly interesting and Pappé was very clear in his interview and 2) I need to do something about what's going on that's not just "thoughts and prayers" so I may as well educate myself.
Gersande La Flèche finished reading When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile
Unbearably interesting read, but I did it. Left with more questions than answers on the Lori Vallow Case, I think. But the historical religious and cultural deep dives into white American LDS/Christofascist culture that circled the Lori Vallow case was genuinely fascinating, in a highly disturbing way.
Update 2024-01-24: This online recording of a book club discussing Sottile's book is absolutely worth a visit to help contextualizing this book. It's a great book.
Gersande La Flèche commented on When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile
Content warning Content Warnings for Religious Abuse; High Control Groups; Child Murder; and Christofacism
The best part of this book isn't anything about the "True Crime" aspect (a chunk of Sottile's inspiration for writing this book was prompted by the horrific child murders by Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell) but the deep dive into high control groups at the fringes of rightwing, conservative Mormon culture which fuels righteous and murderous apocalyptism and horrific religious, sexual, and other kinds of exploitation, not to mention Christian white supremacy.
I think after the rise of the "alt-right" and Trump in 2016, there was a big emphasis on how new this "divided cultural and political moment" felt, but as Sotille untangles, there have been fringe and powerful groups agitating for Christian white patriarchal supremacy since the beginning of the United States.
Anyways, this book is sometimes disturbing, but as someone who grew up knowing almost nothing about Mormons until I met LDS missionaries in Zambia in 2008, this is a very, at times intensely, interesting read.
(Note to self, return to "Revelations.")