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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75% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 9 of 12 books.
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 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.)
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.
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.
FORCE-FREE GUNDOG TRAINING: THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR SUCCESS will equip you with the necessary skills and …
I'm so excited to read this!
@tendertools C'était comment? 👀
C'est un fait : il y a des individus qui passent d'un sexe à un autre. Mais, dans ce passage, …
Paris devenue ville-monstre, surpeuplée, foisonnante, étouffante, étrange et fantasmagorique. Ville-labyrinthe où de nouvelles Cours des Miracles côtoient les immeubles de …
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2023 - Catégorie roman francophone
Grâce à ce roman mordant, Marguerite Imbert est une révélation pour …
En 2213, dans un monde où règnent décadence américaine, pandémie sanglante, massacres génétiques, conquêtes planétaires et montée de l'extrémisme vaudou, …
"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le génie, c'est l'incompréhension."En juin 2021, un …
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only …
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no …
This was a really quick but fun read. I'd watched Haven (it's not ...good, do not recommend) a very long time ago and was expecting The Colorado Kid to have more of a sci-fi angle than it did, at least a more overt one, so it was cool to see what the book actually did. I liked the ending, though I understand why it's apparently pretty polarizing.
(I will say — what the fuck is up with the cover...)
