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This conjured in me the same blinding rage as Emily in Paris and for the same reasons.
People need to be banned from writing about a perfect American girl being treated like a princess and incredibly lucky in Paris, finding themselves with colorful side characters who only live to serve them (and one Moroccan man, complete with a fez, to sell Pakistani spices and show how multicultural the city is, I guess). Bref, my scorn towards Americans is one degree higher and I hadn't even realized it could go higher.
At least the food was good, although the logistics of the wine and dishes had me anxious the entire time.
People need to be banned from writing about a perfect American girl being treated like a princess and incredibly lucky in Paris, finding themselves with colorful side characters who only live to serve them (and one Moroccan man, complete with a fez, to sell Pakistani spices and show how multicultural the city is, I guess). Bref, my scorn towards Americans is one degree higher and I hadn't even realized it could go higher.
At least the food was good, although the logistics of the wine and dishes had me anxious the entire time.
A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization
DID NOT FINISH: 3%
Horrible reading format, but the book seems interesting. I'll come back to it if I find it in paper or Epub
I hated pleasure activism. I thought this would redeem the author in my eyes as it's a topic I care about.
The first 22 pages of this 88 page book are about explaining why the book has been changed since the original blog post.
After wasting my time on a quarter of the book, I checked the table of contents and saw that We will not cancel us starts at page 51 and the afterword starts at page 52.
I kept reading - after all, I had finally finished all the warnings and apologies, so I was ready to power through.
The book started talking about US politics and why the US doesn't deal with covid as well as other countries. That was, as a non-American who is deeply uninterested in US navel-gazing and someone who doesn't really believe in governments to begin with, my last straw.
The first 22 pages of this 88 page book are about explaining why the book has been changed since the original blog post.
After wasting my time on a quarter of the book, I checked the table of contents and saw that We will not cancel us starts at page 51 and the afterword starts at page 52.
I kept reading - after all, I had finally finished all the warnings and apologies, so I was ready to power through.
The book started talking about US politics and why the US doesn't deal with covid as well as other countries. That was, as a non-American who is deeply uninterested in US navel-gazing and someone who doesn't really believe in governments to begin with, my last straw.
I really wanted to like this, because I really like Cory Doctorow's nonfiction thoughts on his blog.
But this was confusing and slow and horny and not for me.
I'll try again with another book.
But this was confusing and slow and horny and not for me.
I'll try again with another book.
Probably great but I got very overwhelmed by the academic level of the book
J'étais tout content d'avoir trouvé un bouquin pour sourcer des biographies de sportives sur Wikipédia. Ensuite, j'étais un peu étonné de voir que les infos étaient souvent déjà présentes sur Wikipédia et que le bouquin n'aidait qu'à les sourcer, pas à en ajouter. Et puis dans la page de Charlotte Cooper, j'ai retrouvé une phrase copiée à l'identique depuis Wikipédia.
Je suppose qu'au moins notre travail sert à quelque chose. C'est quand même dommage de ne pas citer ses sources.
Je suppose qu'au moins notre travail sert à quelque chose. C'est quand même dommage de ne pas citer ses sources.
Lu le début et la fin, les feux étaient tres bien mais j'avais la plupart des infos du bouquin et ca m'embête de le marquer comme lu juste parce que j'ai lu les conclusions.