Gersande La Flèche wants to read Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to …
Found through O.L.P.'s best of 2023 reading list.
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🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc.
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Gersande La Flèche wants to read The walking boy by Lydia Kwa
The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Knight's Wyrd (Magic Carpet Books) by Debra Doyle
Will Odosson sets out on a series of dangerous adventures after a wizard predicts that …
Found on O.L.P.'s best-reads-of-2023 list.
Gersande La Flèche commented on The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell
The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with …
Great section on how to train a really solid recall, even in hounds and other kinds of working dogs that are very stubborn and give almost no attention to audible/vocalization signals.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Rossignol by Audrey Pleynet
Lointain futur. Espace profond. Plus qu’une prouesse technologique, la station est une expérience. Politique, sociale, …
Trouvé sur le bilan lecture 2023 de Nevertwhere.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Anatèm, Tome 1 : Anathem
Trouvé dans le bilan lecture de Nevertwhere de 2023.
Gersande La Flèche commented on Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of …
Content warning CW: Everything? Warren Jeffs and the FLDS is a brutal example of human cruelty
This book borders on the unbelievable more than just sometimes.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. …
Sam Brower mentions this book and why Jon Krakauer wrote it in Prophet's Prey. The origin story is quite ironic.
Gersande La Flèche commented on Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of …
Content warning CW: Everything? Warren Jeffs and the FLDS is a brutal example of human cruelty
Easy read because it's clearly written, which is a relief because the subject matter can be really intense in a bad way. A page turner, too. I have a lot of thoughts about everything but it's quite jumbled.
What's wild to me about all of this is the era it was happening in. 2003-2004 was the era of Islamophobic panic across France and Canada and the USA, and then you have these intensely white supremacist bigots out in the desert enacting religious laws that are absolutely horrific and abusing children and men and women and doing a lot of human trafficking and slave labour of children but it's fine because it's (mostly) Christian. Right? UGH.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Archaeology of Mind by Jaak Panksepp
A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered …
Found out about Dr Panksepp through the work of Dr Grandin, discovered the 7 core emotion systems ...system, got excited, bought the book, here we are. I'm very excited about this not only because I'm fascinated by the similarities in cognitive processes and emotions of all mammals, but because it covers in a pretty rigorous way some stuff that gets talked about a lot of polyvagal theory that is often dealt with in a ... perhaps less rigorous way? (Depends on your framework and point of view, I guess.)
In any case, following this rabbit hole to see where it goes.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of …
Content warning CW: Everything? Warren Jeffs and the FLDS is a brutal example of human cruelty
So, uh, I guess I'm reading this now.
From this NYMag article on some of the best book out there on cults (written in 2018).
Gersande La Flèche commented on When Species Meet (Posthumanities) by Donna J. Haraway
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our …
I love this book. I had forgotten how much I love this book.
Gersande La Flèche rated When Species Meet (Posthumanities): 5 stars
When Species Meet (Posthumanities) by Donna J. Haraway
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
In 2006, about …
Gersande La Flèche rated The Companion Species Manifesto: 5 stars
The Companion Species Manifesto by Donna J. Haraway
The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, …