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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91% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 11 of 12 books.
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of …
Content warning CW: Everything? Warren Jeffs and the FLDS is a brutal example of human cruelty
So, uh, I guess I'm reading this now.
From this NYMag article on some of the best book out there on cults (written in 2018).
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our …
I love this book. I had forgotten how much I love this book.
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
In 2006, about …
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our …
The categories for subjects are part of the problem. I have stressed kin making and family membership but rejected all the names ot human kin for these dogs, especially the name "children." I have stressed dogs as workers and commodities but rejected the analogies of wage labour, slavery, dependent ward, and nonliving property. I have insisted that dogs are made to be models and technologies, patients and reforms, consumers and breedwealth, but I am needy for ways to specify these matters in non-humanist terms which specific difference is at least as crucial as continuities and similarities across kinds.
— When Species Meet (Posthumanities) by Donna J. Haraway (Page 67)
Typing on phone, thus typos are self-inflicted. I still really love chapter 2, even if it still feels preliminary
The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, …
Finished this morning. Book has a handful of myopic moments, probably best described in the latter chapter on QAnon's international reach. Several chapters were very interesting, completely scribbled on with highlights and notes.
Content warning CW: QAnon
The book is definitely interesting but I am sometimes struggling to read right now because I'm absolutely exhausted. And this topic is absolutely exhausting. I'm taking some notes on the culty things I notice, mostly.
Just finished the introduction. Nothing that wasn't familiar to me thus far, though I'd forgotten a lot. Will keep going.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
I finished this book exactly a month ago but I think about it often and even thought about rereading it this week, though I've got a few more nonfictionny books I'd like to squeeze in before the end of the year. I really appreciated Lawrence Wright's tone, approach, exposition. Everything about his narrative style really appealed to me. And every now and then there would be absolutely hilarious yet dry turns of phrase that made me chuckle. The subject matter is not funny at all, and in fact the book is often a bit chilling, but for me I kept turning pages not because of lurid subject matter but because the narrative style was so engaging.
After the big disappointment that was Operation Mindfuck (sincerely, save your precious time and avoid it) my research continues with Will Sommer's book. I'm several pages in and already it's so much better written and easier to follow. Fiou.
Anxiété, angoisse, migraine, insomnie, côlon irritable, fibromyalgie, épuisement, etc.
Avez-vous déjà considéré la possibilité que …
Lecture fortement conseillée par ma travailleuse sociale, donc je plonge.
Sequel to "Shards of Honor". The two were later published together under the title "Cordelia's …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List
By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List.
VIIe-XIIe siècles
« Guerriers et paysans est l'histoire d'un démarrage, celui de l'économie européenne entre …
Ça fait un bout qu'il traine sur mon bureau. Temps de le lire.
