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.
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
I remember liking Uprooted a lot, despite how well it follows many romantasy/fairy-tale tropes to the letter. Revisiting to see if it holds up against my memory (I originally talked about Uprooted on my blog a million years ago.)
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of …
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David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
WOW. This book had long been on my to-read list, but I pushed it to the top, as someone mentioned that it helped them cure their depression. It surely didn't do that for me, but it had me reflecting on my own life. There isn't a lot here that's resolved, but it's so easy to get attached to the many, many characters--both "small" and large. I felt most attached to Don Gately, and Mario is one of the single most lovable characters in literature. There's so much here that's unresolved, but it feels a lot like life. The book functions as both a circle and a triangle, but I'll let you read it to get a sense of what I mean by this.
I have more to say on this, and I might just write a post about plateaus and what J. O. Incandenza calls "figurants." Those two concepts, in …
WOW. This book had long been on my to-read list, but I pushed it to the top, as someone mentioned that it helped them cure their depression. It surely didn't do that for me, but it had me reflecting on my own life. There isn't a lot here that's resolved, but it's so easy to get attached to the many, many characters--both "small" and large. I felt most attached to Don Gately, and Mario is one of the single most lovable characters in literature. There's so much here that's unresolved, but it feels a lot like life. The book functions as both a circle and a triangle, but I'll let you read it to get a sense of what I mean by this.
I have more to say on this, and I might just write a post about plateaus and what J. O. Incandenza calls "figurants." Those two concepts, in my reading, are central to the novel.
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
This comment makes me want to read this!
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know …
@leifur you might want to check this out
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David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
It is a load of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature, but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self of the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul. It is an unnumb intuition in which the world is fully rich and inanimate and un-map-like and also thoroughly painful and malignant and antagonistic to the self, which depressed self It billows on and coagulates around and wraps Its black folds and absorbs into Itself, so that an almost mystical unity is achieved with a world every constituent of which means painful harm to the self. Its emotional character, the feeling Gompert describes It as, is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency--sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying--are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.
It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed.
Incredible commentary on depression
A sharp and timely exploration of the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling, from …
Breaking my "try to read only fiction" rule because this looks interesting. Besides, rules are dumb.
Joan a le coeur brisé. Voilà plus d’un an qu’elle s’épuise à chercher son mari, …
Le livre m'a un peu perdu vers le milieu. Je vais peut-être y revenir, mais l'histoire me déprime et j'ai envie de sauter des tas de chapitres qui me semblent superflus donc on pose le bouquin pour l'instant.
Joan a le coeur brisé. Voilà plus d’un an qu’elle s’épuise à chercher son mari, …
L'écriture est, par moments, un peu faible. Il y a des passages que je trouve vraiment bons, mais d'autres que je pense auraient pu être coupés sans que l'on perde grande chose.
@adelinej@piaille.fr J'ai pas trop aimé le premier chapitre mais après ça c'est bien fait (bien sûr j'ai pas fini le roman encore mais bon)! Tu me diras si ça te chatouille.
@leifur Ooooh what's this about?
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Les Editions du Seuil publieront en septembre prochain, simultanément avec 20 autres éditeurs dans le …
Mon ressenti : ce livre conforte une croyance profonde que j'ai développée ces dernières années : voir la loi comme outil pour te rassurer que tout ira bien dans ta vie (parce que tu comprends, c'est validé par une loi), c'est comme te dire que signer un contrat va te protéger des abus de la personne en face de toi.
=> ça fonctionne que si tu as confiance en les personnes qui créent les lois (qu'elles vont veiller aux intérêts de la majorité et pas juste, disons, les riches, hein - merci les lobbys), et surtout que ces personnes les feront effectivement respecter, que ce soit auprès des organismes privés ou publics.
Les lois qui viennent légitimer les opérations de surveillance massive (localement ou non), on pourrait bien s'en passer, merci. Au mieux, elles empêchent rien à la surveillance (ce qui est un problème), au pire, nos impôts servent à …
Mon ressenti : ce livre conforte une croyance profonde que j'ai développée ces dernières années : voir la loi comme outil pour te rassurer que tout ira bien dans ta vie (parce que tu comprends, c'est validé par une loi), c'est comme te dire que signer un contrat va te protéger des abus de la personne en face de toi.
=> ça fonctionne que si tu as confiance en les personnes qui créent les lois (qu'elles vont veiller aux intérêts de la majorité et pas juste, disons, les riches, hein - merci les lobbys), et surtout que ces personnes les feront effectivement respecter, que ce soit auprès des organismes privés ou publics.
Les lois qui viennent légitimer les opérations de surveillance massive (localement ou non), on pourrait bien s'en passer, merci. Au mieux, elles empêchent rien à la surveillance (ce qui est un problème), au pire, nos impôts servent à payer le salaire de ceux qui les rédigent, vote, etc.
Moyen non ?
Joan a le coeur brisé. Voilà plus d’un an qu’elle s’épuise à chercher son mari, …
Trouvé dans une liste de « réalisme magique » (?) sur le site web de la BANQ. Quelqu'un m'a fortement conseillé un autre roman de Dimaline (Marrow Thieves) donc on plonge.
Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of …
I've heard good things about this.
Kristin Ross s new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of …
This book apparently describes the Artist-Shoemaker Napoléon Gaillard's and attempts by members of the Paris Commune to abolish the distinction between Artisans and Artists. I really want to read this book!
