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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"Early in the morning of November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. …
Very compelling and very difficult reading. The extraordinary life of Recha Sternbuch was previously unknown to me, and I am very grateful for such detailed accounts of her life, motivations, and rescue work.
Pourquoi les futurs de la science-fiction sont-ils souvent coincés dans les années soixante-dix ? Comment …
Oh ça a l'air cool ça
Oh ça a l'air cool ça
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American …
Uninterested in continuing.
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.
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.
J'ai du mal à lire les romans en ce moment alors voici une petite tentative 🦋
J'ai du mal à lire les romans en ce moment alors voici une petite tentative 🦋
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
English:
An Enthralling Mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and …
It is time.
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
It's on Leif's TBR, and I've seen several people mention it looks really good. Throwing it on my own TBR shelf
It's on Leif's TBR, and I've seen several people mention it looks really good. Throwing it on my own TBR shelf
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems …
Vu sur le feed de Vincent.
Les trajectoires paradoxales des treize personnages s'entrelacent comme les fils d'une tapisserie humaine bigarrée, toutes …
Vu sur le feed de Vincent!
Pazcoguin's memoir covers the two+ decades of her career (which started when she was a child) at the New York City Ballet. The gothic humour was welcome and familiar around the tougher memories of relentless emotional, sexist, and racist abuse. During the more triumphant parts of the book (and there are some really great ones), your heart soars at Pazcoguin's words. Righteous!
Organized in a series of non-chronological vignettes (some very out of order), there is definitely a method to it, though it requires a bit of work to keep names and places and years straight. It pays off at the end: maybe you're even a little emotionally winded, but in the best of ways.
While the book offers a tantalizing and brutal window into the amazingly dysfunctional, abusive, and hurt/ing art form that is ballet, the book is careful (and wise) to anchor it to Pazcoguin's perspectives …
Pazcoguin's memoir covers the two+ decades of her career (which started when she was a child) at the New York City Ballet. The gothic humour was welcome and familiar around the tougher memories of relentless emotional, sexist, and racist abuse. During the more triumphant parts of the book (and there are some really great ones), your heart soars at Pazcoguin's words. Righteous!
Organized in a series of non-chronological vignettes (some very out of order), there is definitely a method to it, though it requires a bit of work to keep names and places and years straight. It pays off at the end: maybe you're even a little emotionally winded, but in the best of ways.
While the book offers a tantalizing and brutal window into the amazingly dysfunctional, abusive, and hurt/ing art form that is ballet, the book is careful (and wise) to anchor it to Pazcoguin's perspectives and memories. While there are villains (namely Peter Martins, the disgraced former head of NYCB) the book is firm in placing most of the responsibility at the feet of ballet's culture, audience, and gatekeepers. The issue is systemic; while individual actors can cause atrocious amounts of damage, the solutions have to go beyond holding them personally to account.
Highly entertaining, intensely relatable (despite my never doing anything remotely resembling being a professional dancer at NYCB), and a very hopeful read that I'll definitely revisit again.
