Found in Maggie Appleton's antilibrary and it looks really good so I'm adding it to my own antilibrary (aka TBR shelf).
Found in Maggie Appleton's antilibrary and it looks really good so I'm adding it to my own antilibrary (aka TBR shelf).
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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 wants to read Une morale du minoritaire by Didier Eribon (Histoire de la pensée)
Une morale du minoritaire by Didier Eribon (Histoire de la pensée)
Gersande La Flèche wants to read On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
Gersande La Flèche replied to Vincent Mousseau's status
@vmousseau This book sounds intensely interesting.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
It is the early 1600s, and Johannes Kepler's mother is accused of witchcraft. I love historical fiction. Apparently this was on CBC Canada Reads last year, but I only found out about it very recently.
Part of the historical background of this story is that "between 1625 and 1631, under the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, the Holy Roman Empire saw one of the biggest mass trials in European history, with an estimated 900 people executed in the Würzburg witch trials." (From wikipédia)
It is the early 1600s, and Johannes Kepler's mother is accused of witchcraft. I love historical fiction. Apparently this was on CBC Canada Reads last year, but I only found out about it very recently.
Part of the historical background of this story is that "between 1625 and 1631, under the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, the Holy Roman Empire saw one of the biggest mass trials in European history, with an estimated 900 people executed in the Würzburg witch trials." (From wikipédia)
Gersande La Flèche wants to read La Vallée des fleurs by Niviaq Korneliussen
La Vallée des fleurs by Niviaq Korneliussen
Elle vit à Nuuk, la capitale du Groenland. Elle est inuite, jeune, moderne et pleine d’humour. Elle est amoureuse de …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read CAPS LOCK by Ruben Pater
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertising …
This just floated across my feed and it looks really interesting. Throwing it on the TBR.
Gersande La Flèche set a goal to read 14 books in 2023
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Waking the giant by Bill McGuire
"The ground beneath our feet may seem safe and solid, but earthquakes, volcanic blasts and …
The Earth is a dynamic planet of shifting tectonic plates that is responsive to change, particularly when there is a dramatic climate transition. We know that at the end of the last Ice Age, as the great glaciers disappeared, the release in pressure allowed the crust beneath to bounce back. At the same time, staggering volumes of melt water poured into the ocean basins, warping and bending the crust around their margins. The resulting tossing and turning provoked a huge resurgence in volcanic activity, seismic shocks, and monstrous landslides -- the last both above the waves and below. The frightening truth is that temperature rises expected this century are in line with those at the end of the Ice Age. All the signs, warns geophysical hazard specialist Bill McGuire, are that unmitigated climate change due to human activities could bring about a comparable response.
Gersande La Flèche replied to battlepoet's status
@battlepoet I don't think so! But I imagine a lot of the themes and frameworks might cross-pollinate, you know?
@battlepoet I don't think so! But I imagine a lot of the themes and frameworks might cross-pollinate, you know?
Gersande La Flèche started reading Fantaisies guérillères by Guillaume Lebrun
En ce début de xve siècle, tout est chaos au Royaume de France : les …
Ça commence très fort!
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time …
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
It is time. I read Piranesi last year (2021) and was completely transported. I knew I wanted to pick up Norrell&Strange but the size is daunting and I want to give it proper attention. Hopefully I will have good reading time in the next couple weeks. Wish me luck!
(Also I sadly don't have a physical copy of this bad boy, I have a trusty epub instead!)
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
It is time. I read Piranesi last year (2021) and was completely transported. I knew I wanted to pick up Norrell&Strange but the size is daunting and I want to give it proper attention. Hopefully I will have good reading time in the next couple weeks. Wish me luck!
(Also I sadly don't have a physical copy of this bad boy, I have a trusty epub instead!)
Gersande La Flèche wants to read A Playful Production Process by Richard Lemarchand
A Playful Production Process by Richard Lemarchand, Amy Hennig
This book teaches game designers, aspiring game developers, and game design students how to take a digital game project from …
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Aura is a short novel written by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 in Mexico. This novel is …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Case of the Zodiac Killer by Michael Morford
In the late 1960’s, and early 1970’s, an enigmatic serial killer terrorized the San Francisco …
Done, by the end it was a relief to put this one away. The first part of the book was a very quick read through the factual details of the case. Become less readable in later chapters, as these are in fact episode transcriptions, and without facts to rely on, the discussions about conjecture become repetitive and tedious.
At one point they mentioned factual issues with Robert Graysmith's seminal yellow book on the Zodiac killer, and I really wish they had discussed those in further detail.
Interesting if you need an overview of the facts in chronological order, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend sticking around past those chapters.
There were the odd spelling errors, typos, and mispelled names of places or people. Probably awkwardness left over from the transcription.
Done, by the end it was a relief to put this one away. The first part of the book was a very quick read through the factual details of the case. Become less readable in later chapters, as these are in fact episode transcriptions, and without facts to rely on, the discussions about conjecture become repetitive and tedious.
At one point they mentioned factual issues with Robert Graysmith's seminal yellow book on the Zodiac killer, and I really wish they had discussed those in further detail.
Interesting if you need an overview of the facts in chronological order, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend sticking around past those chapters.
There were the odd spelling errors, typos, and mispelled names of places or people. Probably awkwardness left over from the transcription.