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July 2024 in review / Récap de juillet 2024
Last night at the Hollywood canteen
Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made.
But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen kitchen, Annie realizes any one of the Canteen’s luminous volunteers could be guilty of the crime. To catch the killer, Annie falls in with Fiona’s friends, a bitter and cynical group–each as uniquely unhappy in their life and career as Annie is in hers–that call themselves the Ambassador’s Club.
Solving a murder in real life, it turns out, is a lot harder than writing one for the stage. And by involving herself in the secrets and lies of the Ambassador’s Club, Annie just might have put a target on her own back.
A polyamorous, bisexual murder mystery set in 1940s, pre-Singin’ in the Rain Hollywood? Do I need to say more? Here is my original draft for this review: do you know how rare lgbt thriller mysteries are? do you???? Now − I’ve read a few queer crime novels recently, so clearly there’s more and more going…
100 day challenge: no more squats, hello photos
Blood in the machine
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.
The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.
Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?
I found out about Blood in the machine through the episode of 99% Invisible podcast of the same name. Blood in the machine is storytelling more than anything else. It follows just a few emblematic people, recreating their life and struggle from the sources, and goes to more general lessons from there. This narrative approach…
Downloadable Olympics calendars
Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games calendars (*.ics). Contribute to fabrice404/olympics-calendar development by creating an account on GitHub.
Use this Olympics calendar list to subscribe to: All Olympics event with a given country All events within an Olympic sport I subscribed manually to everything because I have way too much free time, and I also subscribed, in another calendar, to everything France-related. First games in 2 days, I’m so excited!
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Mangeuses
Qui a volé l’appétit des femmes ?
On date souvent les troubles alimentaires féminins des années 1970, quand apparaît le diktat de la minceur, mais l’injonction, pour les femmes, à s’entourer de nourriture sans manger est bien plus ancienne. Pandore doit cacher son « estomac de chienne » dans un corps parfait, Ève est condamnée à se soumettre à tous les désirs masculins pour avoir croqué la pomme, au XVIIe siècle, les premiers cafés parisiens servent à manger mais les femmes en sont exclues… Les femmes sont partout présentées comme des ménagères ou des gloutonnes, tandis que les hommes sont des chefs ou des gourmets.
Dans l’histoire personnelle de Lauren Malka, le rapport à la gourmandise est central. C’est un plaisir, un lien à la convivialité, aux origines, une créativité des parfums et des couleurs… mais aussi un tourment, une obsession. En se mettant à l’écoute de femmes d’âges et de milieux différents, et mêmes d’autres époques, elle s’est rendu compte que son histoire était partagée par beaucoup.
Récit-enquête incarné assaisonné d’anecdotes culinaires historiques ou culturelles et de témoignages, Mangeuses tente d’apporter quelques miettes d’espoir dans un monde d’affamées.
Un ouvrage tellement intéressant que j’ai oublié de le rendre à la bibliothèque, mon inconscient ayant apparemment décidé que j’ai besoin de le posséder. J’ai beaucoup appris de cette lecture, qui traite de nombreux sujets dont la description de la nourriture dans la fiction et les magazines féminins, l’opposition entre gourmandise mignonne et gloutonnerie honteuse,…