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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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Gersande La Flèche started reading The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
The House …
Page 35. Start is pretty good. I was recced this and am plunging in despite it being a massive, massive tome.
Gersande La Flèche stopped reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
Library took this back even though it's an ebook. I don't understand ebook loads. Why are they so short!?!
Library took this back even though it's an ebook. I don't understand ebook loads. Why are they so short!?!
Gersande La Flèche stopped reading Fever: the dark mystery of the Bre-X gold rush by Jennifer Wells
I actually need to finish this but the library needed it back.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Saving Our Own Lives by adrienne maree brown
Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet …
This looks very very interesting.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Digital Factory by Moritz Altenried
The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism.The workers of …
Gersande La Flèche started reading Les fiancées de l'hivers by Christelle Dabos (La passe miroir, #1)
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : …
Ça fait un bout que j'avais envie fortement de le relire. Je me souviens super bien du débout mais pas tellement de la fin. Allons-y, lecture rigolote ()? de voyage!
Ça fait un bout que j'avais envie fortement de le relire. Je me souviens super bien du débout mais pas tellement de la fin. Allons-y, lecture rigolote ()? de voyage!
Gersande La Flèche stopped reading Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity , No 8) by Maria Dzielska
Very sadly, the library needed this back. Will take it out again!
Gersande La Flèche started reading Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Zen Master Seung Sahn
Cannot find my other book on Zen. Found this book. I have no memory of this book. There is handwriting in this book that may indicate my father bought this book in '98. How is it in my apartment? Interesting how books wander.
Cannot find my other book on Zen. Found this book. I have no memory of this book. There is handwriting in this book that may indicate my father bought this book in '98. How is it in my apartment? Interesting how books wander.
Thus Hypatia’s students always feel the presence of her “divine spirit”51. Not just Hypatia’s soul is holy; all of her being is sanctified; even her hands, which receive Synesius’ letters, are “sacred” (Ep. 133). As Plato’s successor she is blessed with charisma that enables her to teach others, and she fulfills her vocation with devotion, as if god himself had called her to this purpose. Zealously disclosing to her students the “sacred” sense of philosophic inquiry, she is regarded as a “genuine guide in the mysteries of philosophy” (gnesia kathegemon ton philosophias orgion) (Ep. 137). The appellation of guide along the avenues of “genuine" sacred philosophy was accorded in Hypatia’s time only to those Neoplatonists who distinguished themselves though a sort of personal holiness, though fame on account of their wisdom and spiritual authority.52 At the side of so elevated a teacher students consider themselves Fortune’s darlings. They surround her joyfully, like choristers to a leader. Writing in 402 to his brother Euoptius, who was probably still studying with Hypatia, Synesius asks him to extend salutations to “the fortunate chorus that delights in her oracular utterance,” or more precisely, “her divinely sweet voice” (Ep. 5).
— Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity , No 8) by Maria Dzielska (Page 48)
This description of Hypatia is really cool.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Fichus by Jacques Derrida
Fichus by Jacques Derrida
Qu’est-ce qu’un « fichu », en bon français? Que nomme le nom « fichu » ? Et que voulons-nous dire …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read La Version Qui N'intéresse Personne by Emmanuelle Pierrot
'' Elle croyait qu’ici, à l’autre bout du monde, au confluent de la rivière Klondike …
Ça a l'ai bouleversant mais très bon: www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2023-09-16/la-version-qui-n-interesse-personne/le-roman-qui-devrait-interesser-tout-le-monde.php
Ça a l'ai bouleversant mais très bon: www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2023-09-16/la-version-qui-n-interesse-personne/le-roman-qui-devrait-interesser-tout-le-monde.php
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Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
If Marx was trying to be relevant and writing fantasy today
5 stars
Ok, this book was very fun and gave me some of those excitement in the streets feels at moments I am just always there for. Going in blind to the story, it took me way to long to feel invested in the story, it being fantasy and starting off with a tale about god, I was pretty much ready to swipe left on this one. But then the world came into focus and I was hooked.
I read a review that said in the fantasy world, it's hip to be exploring the magic/creatures/polygod world's through a lens of the industrial revolution rather than bronze or medieval developments. And within this modern trend this is Adrian Tchaikovsky's contribution to that.
I couldn't help but map Marx's capital onto this world, updated by my stronger and stronger appreciation of Tchaikovsky's work and left politics. We have main characters from the …
Ok, this book was very fun and gave me some of those excitement in the streets feels at moments I am just always there for. Going in blind to the story, it took me way to long to feel invested in the story, it being fantasy and starting off with a tale about god, I was pretty much ready to swipe left on this one. But then the world came into focus and I was hooked.
I read a review that said in the fantasy world, it's hip to be exploring the magic/creatures/polygod world's through a lens of the industrial revolution rather than bronze or medieval developments. And within this modern trend this is Adrian Tchaikovsky's contribution to that.
I couldn't help but map Marx's capital onto this world, updated by my stronger and stronger appreciation of Tchaikovsky's work and left politics. We have main characters from the factory works, lumpen proles, sex workers, students, immigrants, and heretic theologians. The book explores a world colonized by an analogue of Roman Catholic conservatism and empire. There is even a parallel of Marx's theory of dead-labour embodied in commodities as magic embed in objects, which lends them value and can be distilled and extracted to produce further value.
Definitely a strong nationalist anti-colonialism bent to the societal tensions, with nostalgia and ghosts of feudal ethnic powers and the folk cultures and traditions lost to urbanization and proletarianization.
Reading it as a Marxist, one would be happy by its interpretation of struggle, class and modernization with greater heed paid to the lumpen proles and gender. Reading it as an anarchist, there are critiques to be made around the appeal of nationalism, hierarchy, and power as little fiefdoms and warlords struggle to remain dominant above and sometimes oblivious to the peoples struggles in the streets.
I would highly recommend this book, 1 of 2 in the series as of yet, as a fun read that gets your heart racing while both escaping from this world to better view it as an outsider.
Probably gonna stay in my top 5 of 2024!
Gersande La Flèche started reading Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity , No 8) by Maria Dzielska
At p41, my hold on this book in the library came through!!!
Gersande La Flèche quoted Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
It is an attempt to use my own doppelgänger experience—the havoc wreaked and the lessons learned about me, her, and us—as a guide into and through what I have come to understand as our doppelgänger culture. A culture crowded with various forms of doubling, in which all of us who maintain a persona or avatar online create our own doppelgängers—virtual versions of ourselves that represent us to others. A culture in which many of us have come to think of ourselves as personal brands, forging a partitioned identity that is both us and not us, a doppelgänger we perform ceaselessly in the digital ether as the price of admission in a rapacious attention economy.
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (4% - 5%)