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Gersande La Flèche

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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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Gersande La Flèche's books

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Louky Bersianik: L'Euguélionne (French language, 2012)
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Russell Blackford: At the Dawn of a Great Transition (2021, Schwabe AG Verlag Basel)
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Virginia Woolf: L' Oeuvre romanesque (French language, 1973, Stock)

Currently Reading (View all 22)

Florence Ashley: Banning Transgender Conversion Practices (2022, University of British Columbia Press)
Guillaume Lebrun: Fantaisies guérillères (Paperback, Français language, Christian Bourgois)
Rivka Galchen: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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Amal El-Mohtar: The Truth About Owls (EBook)
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Andrzej Sapkowski: Blood of elves
John Grisham: The Pelican Brief (Hardcover, 1992, Doubleday)

2025 Reading Goal

75% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 9 of 12 books.

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finished reading The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell

Patricia B. McConnell: The Other End of the Leash (EBook, 2009, Random House Publishing Group) 5 stars

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with …

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.

quoted Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman

Sarah Berman: Don't Call it a Cult (Paperback, 2021, Steerforth) 5 stars

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  (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.)