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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@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu un de mes écrivains préférés
ça fait des années que je n'ai pas relu ce livre, je me demande si j'ai encore une copie papier à qq part...
@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu un de mes écrivains préférés
ça fait des années que je n'ai pas relu ce livre, je me demande si j'ai encore une copie papier à qq part...
An analysis of fascism seeks to clarify its ideological foundations, the leaders and historical situations …
For many years I taught a university course on fascism, sometimes as a graduate seminar, sometimes as an undergraduate seminar. The more I read about fascism and the more I discussed it with students, the more perplexed I grew. While an abundance of brilliant monographs dealt illuminatingly with particular aspects of Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, and their like, books about fascism as a generic phenomenon often seemed to me, in comparison with the monographs, abstract, stereotyped, and bloodless.
— The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton (Page xvi)
Reading up on fascism from a historical/dialectical/materialistic perspective instead of an idealism (ideology?) perspective. Starting with Paxton.
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Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave …
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we …
Deuxième édition, première lecture, ça fait des années que j'avais envie de le lire, même en tenant compte certaines critiques.
Deuxième édition, première lecture, ça fait des années que j'avais envie de le lire, même en tenant compte certaines critiques.
@Tellington SO HIMBO
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
I always forget how much Western Scientist Commentary On The Soviet Union there is. But also, the Soviet scientist, Vaygay Lunacharsky, is both an underdeveloped and underused character and it makes me sad.
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Un jour, une vie. Tel est le résumé du roman vivifiant et contagieux de Maurice …
Vous avez pu vous en rendre compte, les Vieux-Gués ne racolent pas : des allées qui coupent des taillis, des bouts de plaine tout de suite refermés, un étang modeste et secret que tels de mes amis qualifieraient de margouillat. Mais je les aime tels qu'ils sont. Les genêts, les ajoncs y fleurissent comme en Bretagne ; les hampes des digitales, comme en Sologne en cette saison, embrument du même rose les talus des forêts. Les petites draves du printemps, leurs menues collerettes rondes, leurs fleurs lilliputiennes, d'un blanc si pur… Je voudrais, si j'étais poète, chanter ce monde au ras de l'herbe où rosissent les fleurs de l'érodium, où les petits soucis des vignes éparpillent leurs gouttes orangées. Jaune, bleu, rouge, mauve, à la bonne heure ! Quelle formule d'ordinateur me toucherait comme ces mots-là ?
— Un jour by Maurice Genevoix
Un exemple de description superbe, et cette chute, qui me fait presque imaginer Genevoix prévoyant la naissance des grands modèles de langues. En fait, en 1964, Robert Escarpit avait inventé le littératron, un ordinateur capable de produire automatiquement des discours électoraux après avoir recueilli les préférences des électeurs, puis des romans.
« Cela commençait ainsi: La frêle jeune fille aux yeux pervenche qui descendit a la station de la Porte des Lilas était modestement mais proprement vêtue... La dernière phrase du livre était: Il lut dans son regard extasié la promesse d’un indicible bonheur. »
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A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
Finally, started listening to this while doing yoga this morning (I've been taking an audiobook break by listening to podcasts lately). I enjoy the combination of detailed engineering knowledge with a vulnerable memoir. The way that Chachra builds scenes of our real-world infrastructure having a purpose down to the smallest, easily disregarded, parts reminds me of the in-depth world building of acclaimed sci-fi novels like "Red Mars" yet describing instead the marvels of the real world. Those lengthy paragraphs that set the scene for our characters always strikes me as what sets the immersion into that world apart from any other book, centered far more on the action and drama between characters than anywhere else (should it even matter that they're in space?). What might be even more critical to the form of Chachra's writing is in bringing us out of pure fantasy through the recognition that all this is …
Finally, started listening to this while doing yoga this morning (I've been taking an audiobook break by listening to podcasts lately). I enjoy the combination of detailed engineering knowledge with a vulnerable memoir. The way that Chachra builds scenes of our real-world infrastructure having a purpose down to the smallest, easily disregarded, parts reminds me of the in-depth world building of acclaimed sci-fi novels like "Red Mars" yet describing instead the marvels of the real world. Those lengthy paragraphs that set the scene for our characters always strikes me as what sets the immersion into that world apart from any other book, centered far more on the action and drama between characters than anywhere else (should it even matter that they're in space?). What might be even more critical to the form of Chachra's writing is in bringing us out of pure fantasy through the recognition that all this is intrinsically grounded in racial capitalism.
I like the connection between how nature is often described as "the green stuff" as people with plant awareness disparity (I'm referencing the term from nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10153 ) may struggle to define the specifics of all that surrounds them until it all blurs into a green blob- to how infrastructure is often lost into its own blur of "grey stuff". As someone who's interested in the formation of identity as a result of the environment and grew up in an urban setting, I'm very interested in bringing attention to the diversity that exists around us at all times, subconsciously influencing what we assume to be the norm, but also empowering us when we are better able to define, enact, and tend to those relations.
Furthermore, I'm reminded of "Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity" ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00606.x ) where it notes "This review incorporates the 'brown-world' of detritus into the largely 'green-world' of food web theory by integrating population, community and ecosystem ecology" (Hedin 1991; Pomeroy 1991 as cited by Moore et. al 2004). Being an amateur mycologist, it's important for me to bring attention to how the green could not function without the brown.
@leifur do you know if we have this one squirrelled away somewhere?
@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu L'ordre n'est pas important -- Contact est un roman qui suit le personnage d'Ellie Arroway tandis que Cosmos est un ouvrage qui vulgarise la science et l'astronomie!
@s_mailler@bw.heraut.eu L'ordre n'est pas important -- Contact est un roman qui suit le personnage d'Ellie Arroway tandis que Cosmos est un ouvrage qui vulgarise la science et l'astronomie!
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
The Laurel Lekfow narration is so well done. I wonder what other audiobooks she has narrated, because honestly I'm not having much trouble with her narration at all!
The Laurel Lekfow narration is so well done. I wonder what other audiobooks she has narrated, because honestly I'm not having much trouble with her narration at all!
Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, challenges us to not only read, but …
Le jeune Loun est laissé pour mort, tabassé à son propre domicile. Les regards se tournent immédiatement vers Edoyo, sa …
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
I think the reason so many young millennials and gen x'ers went feral over this book is because Ellie Arroway's childhood as a girl interested in tech and math but also kind of uninterested in school is so intensely relatable.
I think the reason so many young millennials and gen x'ers went feral over this book is because Ellie Arroway's childhood as a girl interested in tech and math but also kind of uninterested in school is so intensely relatable.
