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Un beau bouquin. On sent pointer le "réalisme magique", sans magie mais avec beaucoup de réalisme. Une riche plongée dans un village colombien reculé, au début des années 60 ou fin des années 50 (le livre semble très ancré dans cette époque historique et politique très particulière de la Colombie, la sortie de la Violence et ses répliques). C'est aussi une satire très caustique de la société colombienne rurale à cette époque.

Un livre pas forcément très chatoyant, moins spectaculaire que d'autres œuvres du même, mais vraiment une bonne lecture.

@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu un de mes écrivains préférés

ça fait des années que je n'ai pas relu ce livre, je me demande si j'ai encore une copie papier à qq part...

Deuxième édition, première lecture, ça fait des années que j'avais envie de le lire, même en tenant compte certaines critiques.

Finally, started listening to this while doing yoga this morning (I've been taking an audiobook break by listening to podcasts lately). I enjoy the combination of detailed engineering knowledge with a vulnerable memoir. The way that Chachra builds scenes of our real-world infrastructure having a purpose down to the smallest, easily disregarded, parts reminds me of the in-depth world building of acclaimed sci-fi novels like "Red Mars" yet describing instead the marvels of the real world. Those lengthy paragraphs that set the scene for our characters always strikes me as what sets the immersion into that world apart from any other book, centered far more on the action and drama between characters than anywhere else (should it even matter that they're in space?). What might be even more critical to the form of Chachra's writing is in bringing us out of pure fantasy through the recognition that all this is intrinsically grounded in racial capitalism.

I like the connection between how nature is often described as "the green stuff" as people with plant awareness disparity (I'm referencing the term from nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10153 ) may struggle to define the specifics of all that surrounds them until it all blurs into a green blob- to how infrastructure is often lost into its own blur of "grey stuff". As someone who's interested in the formation of identity as a result of the environment and grew up in an urban setting, I'm very interested in bringing attention to the diversity that exists around us at all times, subconsciously influencing what we assume to be the norm, but also empowering us when we are better able to define, enact, and tend to those relations.

Furthermore, I'm reminded of "Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity" ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00606.x ) where it notes "This review incorporates the 'brown-world' of detritus into the largely 'green-world' of food web theory by integrating population, community and ecosystem ecology" (Hedin 1991; Pomeroy 1991 as cited by Moore et. al 2004). Being an amateur mycologist, it's important for me to bring attention to how the green could not function without the brown.

@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu L'ordre n'est pas important -- Contact est un roman qui suit le personnage d'Ellie Arroway tandis que Cosmos est un ouvrage qui vulgarise la science et l'astronomie!

The Laurel Lekfow narration is so well done. I wonder what other audiobooks she has narrated, because honestly I'm not having much trouble with her narration at all!