Challenge?

I might challenge myself soon to not read American books for a month. It’s going to be nice culturally, but I’ll also have to make a much bigger effort to find queer literature. It will be fun!

April 2025 in review / Récap d’avril 2025

I’m on holidays right now (yay!), so I’ve pre-written most of this monthly update before leaving last week and am keeping it shorter than usual. I’ll catch up in the May edition! What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres Knew that during my holidays I wouldn’t be able to read on paper, so…

March 2025 in review / Récap de mars 2025

I am now 31 years old, and the proud owner of a gravel bike and of more equipment than my fitness levels justify. Life is good. What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres (Only the ones I liked, as usual.) In English Fiction The Books of Ambha, Tasha Suri, Mughal empire-inspired fantasy with…

Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/. I really, really want to do …

Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/. I really, really want to do this for Grenoble some day. It’s so cool! See also: Likes https://piaille.fr/@monparisalphabetique.

Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984, by Sandra Newman

Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader…

overinformation cleanup

I have been overwhelmed recently, so I followed some of Tracy’s practices: Removed my RSS Reader from my phone’s home screen (but not from the app menu, for now) Unsubscribed from all large news sources and signed up for their weekly newsletter instead (wherever possible, I will receive the newsletter in my RSS Reader). That’s…

February 2025 in review / Récap de février 2025

It’s been a nice month, with everything going well, and I’m in a good mood! What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres In English Fiction The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy was high-quality fantasy, in which a teenager decides to take her best friend’s place and become a witch. The problem is, she’s…

my religion

My religion, should anyone be interested, can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? If that question doesn’t apply, I have another: What would my grandfather think about this? None of which relieves me of the compulsion to cross myself in my hour of…

Evil Author Day : mes brouillons abandonnés, my abandoned drafts

Sara a parlé d’Evil Author Day l’an dernier et je me suis gardé l’idée bien au chaud depuis. Le concept : le 15 février, on balance nos idées et brouillons en public sans la moindre intention de les finir. Si quelqu’un veut reprendre les infos et idées, n’hésitez surtout pas : de mon côté, si…

WikiTok

a fun website with a tiktok-like interface, but for wikipedia! Likes WikiTok.