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261 reviews
Un certain sourire by Françoise Sagan
emotional
reflective
5.0
Ces derniers temps, je trouve que des femmes apathiques me plaisent tellement. Françoise Sagan est parfaitement ça. Et c’est marrant que la plupart des écrivaines avec lesquelles je m’identifie, je suppose qu’elles sont simplement gays mais à la fois assez crues pour profiter de la tendresse et assez précoces pour accepter le défi intellectuel, desquels la femme en a plein. C’est parlant..? De quoi dieu sait. Alors peut être que c’est vrai, la femme n’existe pas 😗
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
emotional
funny
reflective
4.5
Pourquoi lire putain de Lolita alors que cet roman existe?
Mars: récit by Fritz Zorn
Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
Homme est valable mais insupportable 🍼
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
dark
reflective
sad
4.25
The Bell Jar is kind of if Hopper was a young girl and wrote a book. Reminded me of a quote which I’ve tracked down and lo and behold it’s Sylvia Plath herself. “What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age." Spoken like a true suburban woman (and like my deepest internalized pick-me thoughts), the underbellying fuel of the valium crisis of the 60s. So, alas, the relatability was slightly amiss BUT having miss secretary Maggie gylenhaal narrate the audiobook? Totally saved the reading experience, she really was stellar.
Also I am interested in the intellectual neurotic woman who is considered “contemporary” for her time and her interest in injuries/maladies concerning sex. There is something more to it than an abject rejection to male interventions/being a woman in a relentless totalitarian patriarchy.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
funny
informative
sad
5.0
Mon enfance, c’était vachement du gâteau 😭😭😭
Ferdinand de Saussure by Jonathan Culler
challenging
informative
reflective
4.5
NO ONE TALKING ABOUT LINGUISTICS WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT LINGUISTICS.
Culler does a sparkling and effective job at demonstrating why Saussure is daddy linguistics in the shadows (and we are in praise of shadows we are). He talks about all the right guys (yeah, it’s guys) and times and fields of study and when you take a step back, you are presented with a damn lucid and gossamer web of semiology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, marxism, teleology, philosophy and theory. Aka all of my things! First time in a long time I’ve felt excited about the academic world, and wouldn’t you know it’s a discover made in the 19th century! So I’ve got to study this stuff, and as a bonus I might be pardoned from roko’s basilisk yet.
+1 “As kingfishers catch fire” shoutout
-1 missed opportunity for chomsky slander
Left linguistwix>right linguistwix 😼
The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the Theory Wars from the London Review of Books by Sam Kinchin-Smith
challenging
informative
reflective
3.5
On theory: 🙂
Theorists on theory: 😁
Reviews on theory: 🫤
Some essays were near bangers, some were aggressively lacking content/clarity/carats/cuts and the like.
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.
My unholy trinity looks like Santana, Quinn, and Brittany so his can look like IMF, WB, and WTO 😇✌️
I’m sorry to say it brother but you need a glass of water while reading because man writes dryer than dry dry ruins and bone dry dunes COMBINED. I think he thought he was being edgy like all economists do 😅 or maybe it’s more that he gives neoliberals the benefit of the doubt in assuming that they actually know what a free market is here… but they really don’t I promise you that. Anyway.
Big critique is that his chains of reasoning kind of exist in individual vacuums?? Like hello, slavery being a factor of globalization is effectively ignored altogether??? Need to find a woman economist 🤔