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Gersande La Flèche

gersande@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 3 years, 1 month 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.

💬 they/them ; iel/lo 💻 blog: gersande.com/blog & gersande.com/blogue 💌 Find me on fedi @silvan.cloud/@gersande or bsky

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François Rivière: Edgar P. Jacobs : le rêveur d'apocalypses (French language, 2021, Glénat Éditions)

Très réussi, charmant, Jacobs lui-même aurait aimé

Un album retraçant la vie et la carrière d'Edgar P. Jacobs, en forme de vignettes. Très bien fait. Une ode à l'auteur et la ligne claire.

Gregory Maguire: Wicked (2000) No rating

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American …

Made it this far, and I'm near the end of the Shiz university section. Historically, this is when I tend to stop reading, because the second half of this book depresses the hell out of me.

It's been over 15 years since I was reading this book regularly (Wicked was a favourite when I was a teenager) and not only did I forget a lot of the finer details of the plot, it's hilarious to me just how much just flew straight over my head as a teenager. Was it because this was one of my first real English reads? Was it because I was a really innocent and naive kid? LOL.

I am not super motivated to finish this. Also, the audiobook narrator doesn't know how to pronounce a few of the names and it's driving me up the wall.

Brian Deer: Doctor Who Fooled the World (2020, Johns Hopkins University Press) No rating

Chilling.

No rating

Not exactly what I would call a fun read after the early years of the covid pandemic. But I'm glad I read it. The story is pretty much worse that I knew, and I knew comparatively quite a bit.

James B. Stewart: Disney War (2005, Simon & Schuster) No rating

The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals …

Material in this book was a major part of the research and context of a Lindsay Ellis video from way back, and I've been meaning to read it but had to wait until I could find a cheap paperback copy, because getting this to work on my Kobo was a fun adventure in futility.

Michael Blum: Domaine Lilium (Paperback, Français language, Éditions Héliotrope) No rating

Dan Katz, historien de l’architecture montréalais, se rend à Drancy pour étudier la Cité de …

J'ai trouvé ce livre à travers la publication de Mauve Renard et j'ai trouvé la description du bouquin super intéressant. J'ajoute à ma pile de trucs à lire!

Umberto Eco: Foucault's pendulum (1989, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) No rating

English:

An Enthralling Mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and …

The first chapter really does hit different if you've been to Saint-Martin-des-Champs and the musée des Arts et métiers.

A word I had never encountered before: sublunar (adjective, more commonly found as sublunarly): of, relating to, or characteristic of the terrestrial world.

Neat.