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.
The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, …
Finished this morning. Book has a handful of myopic moments, probably best described in the latter chapter on QAnon's international reach. Several chapters were very interesting, completely scribbled on with highlights and notes.
Finished this morning. Book has a handful of myopic moments, probably best described in the latter chapter on QAnon's international reach. Several chapters were very interesting, completely scribbled on with highlights and notes.
Content warning CW: QAnon
The book is definitely interesting but I am sometimes struggling to read right now because I'm absolutely exhausted. And this topic is absolutely exhausting. I'm taking some notes on the culty things I notice, mostly.
Just finished the introduction. Nothing that wasn't familiar to me thus far, though I'd forgotten a lot. Will keep going.
Just finished the introduction. Nothing that wasn't familiar to me thus far, though I'd forgotten a lot. Will keep going.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …
I finished this book exactly a month ago but I think about it often and even thought about rereading it this week, though I've got a few more nonfictionny books I'd like to squeeze in before the end of the year. I really appreciated Lawrence Wright's tone, approach, exposition. Everything about his narrative style really appealed to me. And every now and then there would be absolutely hilarious yet dry turns of phrase that made me chuckle. The subject matter is not funny at all, and in fact the book is often a bit chilling, but for me I kept turning pages not because of lurid subject matter but because the narrative style was so engaging.
I finished this book exactly a month ago but I think about it often and even thought about rereading it this week, though I've got a few more nonfictionny books I'd like to squeeze in before the end of the year. I really appreciated Lawrence Wright's tone, approach, exposition. Everything about his narrative style really appealed to me. And every now and then there would be absolutely hilarious yet dry turns of phrase that made me chuckle. The subject matter is not funny at all, and in fact the book is often a bit chilling, but for me I kept turning pages not because of lurid subject matter but because the narrative style was so engaging.
After the big disappointment that was Operation Mindfuck (sincerely, save your precious time and avoid it) my research continues with Will Sommer's book. I'm several pages in and already it's so much better written and easier to follow. Fiou.
After the big disappointment that was Operation Mindfuck (sincerely, save your precious time and avoid it) my research continues with Will Sommer's book. I'm several pages in and already it's so much better written and easier to follow. Fiou.
Anxiété, angoisse, migraine, insomnie, côlon irritable, fibromyalgie, épuisement, etc.
Avez-vous déjà considéré la possibilité …
Lecture fortement conseillée par ma travailleuse sociale, donc je plonge.
Sequel to "Shards of Honor". The two were later published together under the title "Cordelia's …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List
By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides …
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List.
From Jo Walton's November 2023 Reading List.
VIIe-XIIe siècles
« Guerriers et paysans est l'histoire d'un démarrage, celui de l'économie européenne …
Ça fait un bout qu'il traine sur mon bureau. Temps de le lire.
Ça fait un bout qu'il traine sur mon bureau. Temps de le lire.
@wayward@bookwyrm.social Ooooh that's excellent to know! Two recs are better than one!
@wayward@bookwyrm.social Ooooh that's excellent to know! Two recs are better than one!
Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the …
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Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change …
When we thought of language like a book, perhaps it was natural that we were worried and careful about what we enshrined in it. But now that we can think of language like the internet, it’s clear that there is space for innovation, space for many Englishes and many other languages besides, space for linguistic playfulness and creativity. There’s space, in this glorious linguistic web, for you.
— Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch (99%)
Love the conclusion of this book!
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change …
This looks interesting! Hoping for linguistic nerdiness.
Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to …
Content warning CW for QAnon; Conspiracy Theories
Despite being perceptive enough to identify the medieval origins of QAnon’s fanatical obsession with the notion that innocent children are being kidnapped from their bedrooms and harvested by the “elites,” [Barbara] Fister concludes her piece by saying that that the best way to combat QAnon is to change “how education approaches information-literacy instruction.” After the destructive events of January 6, 2021, Fister’s wide-eyed approach to the problem seems both charming and dangerous. It was partly this dangerous naivety among entrenched political commentators that convinced me to begin writing about QAnon from a perspective slightly different from what I was seeing in mainstream publications during the first few months of 2020.
— Operation Mindfuck by Robert Guffey (Page 6)
Barbara Fister wrote in the Atlantic on February 18, 2021:
. . . QAnon is something of a syncretic religion. But its influence doesn’t stop with religious communities. While at its core it’s a 21st-century reboot of a medieval anti-Semitic trope (blood libel), it has shed some of its Christian vestments to gain significant traction among non-evangelical audiences. ("The Librarian War Against QAnon")
