Wow this book was depressing.
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🍵 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 wants to read The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez

The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Que fait-on du corps blessé, mutilé, esclavagisé, colonisé? La télévision ne fait que nous habituer à ces corps-déchets. Ces corps vagabonds. Ces corps meurtris. Ces corps dégradés. Ces corps rejetés par la mer. Je suis toujours inquiet par ces images vomies par la mer, ces êtres humains-déchets qui ont le don de planter le décor idyllique, établi pour les touristes. Ces corps non voulus, non attendus, qui salissent les plages occidentales. La Méditerranée est alors devenue non pas un mirage, mais un cimetière où échouent ces corps gonflés de peurs et d'amertumes. Faut-il bien avoir le courage de verser à la réflexion la notion de déchet dans un monde qui produit et consomme à la fois tellement et tellement de déchets?
— Les racistes n'ont jamais vu la mer by Rodney Saint Éloi, Yara El-Ghadban (Page 287)

Tu dis racisme, je dis rêve. Tu dis ombre, je dis soleil.
Ça ressemble à un jeu. Peut-être me diras-tu que c'est trop romantique. Pourtant les jeunes qui marchent dans les rues pour manifester ne le font pas en silence. Au rythme de leurs pas, ils lancent dans le vent autant d'utopies que de reproches. Ce n'est pas un jeu que de revendiquer le rêve. Les rêves ont déplacé des populations entières. Le rêve d'une vie meilleure est souvent la seule chose qui survit à la traversée des mers et des frontières.
Le rêve est une question de vie ou de mort.
— Les racistes n'ont jamais vu la mer by Rodney Saint Éloi, Yara El-Ghadban (Page 12)
Gersande La Flèche replied to Hegelian Princess's status
@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social I don't hate the people (old habit, was raised to not be able to hate people), but the LDS Church and its offshoots are pretty freaking evil, agreed 100%.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF …
I've received a recommendation from a friend for this book, though the rec also came with some warnings that sometimes Gray goes off the rails in ways that don't seem completely reasonable. But that the book was still worth reading, so throwing it on the TBR.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read La Horde Du Contrevent by Alain Damasio
Gersande La Flèche rated The Other End of the Leash: 4 stars

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 dogs, focusing on our behavior …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell
A lot of this book is very wise. I don't have a ton to nitpick, and they really would be nitpicks, about the theoretical and practical advice this book communicates. If you're trying to better understand how to communicate effectively with dogs (and maybe other people too), this book has a lot to offer. It's not a training manual, it definitely goes deeper, but it helps to explain why "dog training" is at its core a two-creature process, and the human has to work just as hard as the dog to get it right.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read L'allègement des vernis by Paul Saint-Bris
Conseillé sur grignotages
Gersande La Flèche wants to read L'Avancée de la nuit by Jakuta Alikavazovic
Très recommandé sur grignotages!
Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Devourers by Indrapramit Das
Recommended by @SRDas@mstdn.social when I made a post asking for book recs. Looks really interesting!
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Immune by Philipp Dettmer
This looks really interesting, especially in the era of the covid pandemic.
Recommended by @MurmeltHier when I asked for book recs from the fedi.