Gersande La Flèche wants to read L'Avancée de la nuit by Jakuta Alikavazovic
Paul, étudiant le jour, gardien dans un hôtel la nuit, est fasciné par Amélia, l’occupante …
Très recommandé sur grignotages!
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🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc. English, French, and many translations.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc. Lecture en anglais et en français, et beaucoup de traductions.
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Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Devourers by Indrapramit Das
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms …
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
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you …
This looks really interesting, especially in the era of the covid pandemic.
Recommended by @MurmeltHier when I asked for book recs from the fedi.
Recommended by @juniperaugust when I called for book recs.
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!