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Le roi fantôme

Maaza Mengiste

DID NOT FINISH: 52%

I wanted to read a book about female Ethiopian warriors. What I got instead was the story of a man who likes to rape everyone he runs into. Stopped midway as there were more pages detailing sexual assaults than pages without.

Also, this book has my pet peeve of not marking dialogue. Why do you do this, authors? Why do you want to confuse your readers?

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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

Erik Olin Wright

DID NOT FINISH: 48%

Somehow both too complex to be a good introduction and too shallow to be a good thinking piece.

Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story

Kuwasi Balagoon

DID NOT FINISH: 52%

Only needed the first part, with the essays by other people, for the work I'm doing. I read a bit more, which was interesting, so I'd still recommend it.

Ceux qu'il nous faut retrouver

Joan He

DID NOT FINISH: 2%

Deuxième page du roman, deux fois la même erreur d'accord du participe passé. Si je le lis, ça ne sera pas en français.

Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

Craig Lambert

DID NOT FINISH

i feel like a book that says "at the time nobody telecom-muted" in its intro probably shouldn't be read in 2023

Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir)

Jackson Bird

DID NOT FINISH: 8%

idk. felt like a beginner's guide, and the "I've always known" narrative, while completely valid, is not something I'm interested in reading about.

Qu'est-ce qu'un peuple?

Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Sadri Khiari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Alain Badiou

DID NOT FINISH: 32%

imbitable 💀

Le conflit n'est pas une agression

Sarah Schulman

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

Can't believe I wasted several hours of my precious time being told overreacting is bad.

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

DID NOT FINISH: 16%

I expected a book about ending policing. This is a book about why police is bad today, not about how to make things better.

The Witch King

H.E. Edgmon

DID NOT FINISH: 5%

I'm too old for this