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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5% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 5 of 100 books.
Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …
Tu pourrais donner des conférences
sur l’autosabotage
Tellement c’est facile de t’réduire en miettes
Te raconter des histoires sur ton inutilité
ton non-talent
— Transformer ses ruines en ombre à paupières en dix étapes faciles by Catherine Côté (Page 20)
Relatable.
Thalie, 16 ans, vit avec ses parents, Gabriel et Sandrine, dans la Cité de Sainte-Foy …
Biologique ou choisie, traditionnelle ou réinventée, nucléaire ou élargie, Sophie Lewis n'épargne aucune famille. En …
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
I've been jumping around a lot. Read the first couple chapters after the introduction, bits of chapter 5, bits of chapters 8 and 9, and am about to read chapter 16, the "Hemp Chapter."
This book is frankly a bit on the disappointing side. Needs more commentary on the "extinction" or climate/environment side of things. Also from time to time, it's hard to pinpoint exact passages, there are moments when a worrisome lack of awareness of disability solidarity/justice rears its head and undermines his arguments.
I'll probably read chapter 16, then the post covid-19 update (is Reese a covid denier? My own digging on the subject left it kind of up in the air) and then shelve this book, admittedly half-read, but I have other things to do.
I've been jumping around a lot. Read the first couple chapters after the introduction, bits of chapter 5, bits of chapters 8 and 9, and am about to read chapter 16, the "Hemp Chapter."
This book is frankly a bit on the disappointing side. Needs more commentary on the "extinction" or climate/environment side of things. Also from time to time, it's hard to pinpoint exact passages, there are moments when a worrisome lack of awareness of disability solidarity/justice rears its head and undermines his arguments.
I'll probably read chapter 16, then the post covid-19 update (is Reese a covid denier? My own digging on the subject left it kind of up in the air) and then shelve this book, admittedly half-read, but I have other things to do.
Boulette mange trop. Beaucoup trop. Entre Grosse-Dame qui l'élève à coups de Royal Plouc-Chicken du centre commercial, Mère qui lui …
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo …
This should be very short (?!?! I hope/think???) but I am looking forward to reading this, because toxic masculinity is an evergreen problem, but particularly green right now.
Samantha Sotto: Water Moon (EBook)
A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a …
A searing critique of Canada’s long-standing reliance on corporate subsidies.
From the railroad excesses …
Really excited to read this, found it through this fascinating interview on the Hatchet with Laurent Carbonneau.
A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …
Wait, the key words used to describe this are incredible:
queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo
DANG I want to read this. @leifur have you seen this?!
Gersande La Flèche
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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge …
Begins where Innocent Hearts ends.
The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, …
A really fun book, better than the first in a lot of ways. It stretches a ton of credibility so you do have to sort of... accept this is a very rosey look into the past (and into trauma, which despite what the poets will claim is not cured with the Power of Love). But the characters are compelling, and Radclyffe is no slouch as a writer, so it's fun. I liked Vance, a lot. Reminded me of a gay Blueberry but like... in a good way.
A really fun book, better than the first in a lot of ways. It stretches a ton of credibility so you do have to sort of... accept this is a very rosey look into the past (and into trauma, which despite what the poets will claim is not cured with the Power of Love). But the characters are compelling, and Radclyffe is no slouch as a writer, so it's fun. I liked Vance, a lot. Reminded me of a gay Blueberry but like... in a good way.
Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …
Beaucoup de petits moments drôles — j'ai aimé « le bord de l'apocalypse » dans l'introduction et dans la liste « Vingt-cinq choses qui prouvent que tu vis une crise du quart de vie » il y a des éléments très hilarants. Je ne connais pas la poète, donc je ne sais pas si c'est son premier recueil, mais il y a un petit je ne sais quoi qui me fais penser que c'est un premier recueil.
Beaucoup de petits moments drôles — j'ai aimé « le bord de l'apocalypse » dans l'introduction et dans la liste « Vingt-cinq choses qui prouvent que tu vis une crise du quart de vie » il y a des éléments très hilarants. Je ne connais pas la poète, donc je ne sais pas si c'est son premier recueil, mais il y a un petit je ne sais quoi qui me fais penser que c'est un premier recueil.
Portée par une oralité dure et à fleur de peau, avec autodérision et insolence, Catherine …
J'ai eu un petit moment ce matin où j'ai compris que je ne me souvenais plus de la dernière fois que j'ai lu un poème en français écrit après 1910 donc je me suis dit qu’il fallait qu'je corrige ça. J'ai trouvé ce bouquin sur le site de la BANQ, j'ai aimé le titre, on verra bien ce que ça donne!
J'ai eu un petit moment ce matin où j'ai compris que je ne me souvenais plus de la dernière fois que j'ai lu un poème en français écrit après 1910 donc je me suis dit qu’il fallait qu'je corrige ça. J'ai trouvé ce bouquin sur le site de la BANQ, j'ai aimé le titre, on verra bien ce que ça donne!
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Sigh. Reese is apparently one of those hemp Marxists, which is fine but exhausting. Also the dude is apparently a covid denier, according to a friend of a friend who knows him, so I might not be finishing this book apart from reading ch 5 and 12 for book club.
"The most complete book I've read on the nature of our historical moment." – Stephen …
Capitalism per se is responsible for the existential climate crisis: the labour-intensity (profitability) involved in extracting fossil fuels and metals and converting them into commodities makes plundering nature increasingly necessary. The ever-rising demands of capital accumulation require an ever-greater intensity and expansion of extraction and an ever-greater mass of commodities.
— Socialism or Extinction by Ted Reese (Page 12)
