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joyeuse journée internationale de le pen est mort

il fait beau j’ai la peau douce Jean-Marie le Pen est mort et surtout bonne journée !

par Alex 2025-01-07 | 17 Mots | Commenter

Mes lectures de 2024

Note: this article is in French, but there are many recommendations in English. You might want to scroll past the fluff to the Recommandations section if you don’t speak French! Comme chaque année depuis les premiers confinements de 2020 et ma reprise de la lecture intensive, j’ai battu mon record de lecture en 2024 en…

par Alex 2025-01-03 | 1,026 Mots | 2 Webmentions | 1 Commentaire

December 2024 in review / Récap de décembre 2024

Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you’ve missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon! I am feeling much better than last month and am very thankful for the people who sent me kind messages after my last update. Now,…

par Alex 2024-12-31 | 1,252 Mots | Commenter

My goals for 2025

I don’t really do goals. Or rather, I make a giant list of more or less important and ambitious goals in December, try things out, and re-prioritize somewhere around my birthday (end of March) for what will be the closest thing there is to an actual yearly goals list. For 2024, I had 8 goals.…

par Alex 2024-12-25 | 368 Mots | 1 Commentaire

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern is a short novella of a natural disaster. Our narrator, a trans guy who is on hormones and pre-surgery, ends up in a public shelter with no privacy and where nobody seems to get any privacy. Also, the ghost of his grandfather, who narrowly escaped Nazi camps, keeps saving his…

par Alex 2024-12-25 | 64 Mots | Commenter

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere, follows a Catholic lesbian trying to find her lost love. The book is in the format of letters sent to Fatima, her atheist lover from a Muslim family. She tells of her search and of her own life with a gay best friend in a country…

par Alex 2024-12-25 | 77 Mots | Commenter

Nightbloom, by Peace Adzo Medie

Around the world challenge / MyReadingChallenge54: Ghana Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie follows inseparable cousins − or rather, cousins that live a continent apart and have completely different lives, and who don’t talk to each other, but who were inseparable as kids. Heartbreaking and fantastic.

par Alex 2024-12-25 | 44 Mots | Commenter

L’oiseau bleu d’Erzeroum, Ian Manook

Around the World challenge: Arménie Je me suis dit que j’en avais marre d’avoir des lectures déprimantes, alors j’ai lu… …ah ben non, c’est un roman sur le génocide des Arméniens. Le roman suit deux petites filles en 1915 : la grande a 10 ans, la petite six. Elles sont attaquées, déportés, achetées comme esclaves…

par Alex 2024-12-12 | 113 Mots | Commenter

like: Sortie de résidence

Likes Sortie de résidence — John Brouillet – Photoreporter. Mon pote John s’est mis à faire des reportages photo sur son tout nouveau site, et je trouve ça joli et cool, n’hésitez pas à y jeter un coup d’œil !

par Alex 2024-12-12 | 39 Mots | Commenter

Dreamland

Remember how I used to be obsessed with life in North Korea? For weirdly similar reasons, I’m obsessed with life in the United States. That is a messed up country that I would not want to live in. And a fascinating aspect of this hellhole country is its health system and, directly due to that,…

par Alex 2024-12-11 | 810 Mots | Commenter

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