Recommended by @juniperaugust when I called for book recs.
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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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50% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 6 of 12 books.
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Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a …
Recommended by @penpencilbrush when I asked the fedi to rec books that stick to your ribs.
En ce début de xve siècle, tout est chaos au Royaume de France : les …
Aucune protestation de votre part concernant la vérité de ce récit ne sera prise en compte, (..).
— Fantaisies guérillères by Guillaume Lebrun (1%)
Ça commence bien!
Gersande La Flèche rated L'Ours et le Rossignol: 5 stars
L'Ours et le Rossignol by Katherine Arden
Au plus froid de l’hiver, Vassia adore par-dessus tout écouter, avec ses frères et sa sœur, les contes de Dounia, …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading L'Ours et le Rossignol by Katherine Arden
Au plus froid de l’hiver, Vassia adore par-dessus tout écouter, avec ses frères et sa …
Look at me! Reading YA and liking it!!
Gersande La Flèche commented on L'Ours et le Rossignol by Katherine Arden
Au plus froid de l’hiver, Vassia adore par-dessus tout écouter, avec ses frères et sa …
Oh oh oh ce livre est envoutant!!!
Gersande La Flèche rated Don't Call it a Cult: 5 stars
Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman
Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the …
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more …
Heidi Hutchinson recalls that in his pre-NXIVM days Raniere was also researching Scientology and neuro-linguistic programming. At one point, he handed her a book on NLP, and later, when she lived in Los Angeles, he asked her to mail him all the teaching materials she could find at the [..]. Celebrity Centre in Hollywood. In letters to his inner circle, he used Scientology terminology and later adapted some of it into NXIVM teachings—though in court battles, he later denied being influenced by Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard's pseudoscientific theory of mental health. Both NLP and Dianetics were marketed as "tech" that could be used to eliminate bad thoughts and behaviors [...].
— Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman (16%)
All these cults feed off each other, and even later Raniere's going to use terms such as "distortion" that pop up in contemporary evangelical and fundamentalist Christian and Mormon groups. (See the ongoing Jodi Hildebrandt trial.)
Gersande La Flèche commented on Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more …
Flying through this book despite all the random crap I've got going on. Because I read this book for the first time less than a year ago, a lot of it has remained in my head —especially names, which I'm not naturally good at keeping in mind—, but I'm able to notice a lot of new details, so that's good.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more …
Rereading even though I said I would stop (re)reading true crime nonfiction. I'm an imperfect undercooked noodle.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Force-Free Gundog Training by Jo Laurens
FORCE-FREE GUNDOG TRAINING: THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR SUCCESS will equip you with the necessary skills and …
I'm so excited to read this!
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@tendertools C'était comment? 👀
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Après l'identité; Transitude & féminisme by Pauline Clochec
Après l'identité; Transitude & féminisme by Pauline Clochec
C'est un fait : il y a des individus qui passent d'un sexe à un autre. Mais, dans ce passage, …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Un éclat de givre by Estelle Faye
Un éclat de givre by Estelle Faye
Paris devenue ville-monstre, surpeuplée, foisonnante, étouffante, étrange et fantasmagorique. Ville-labyrinthe où de nouvelles Cours des Miracles côtoient les immeubles de …