ah yes, love the casual but repeated hate towards transmasc people.

good book otherwise.

Felt rushed and superficial in some parts, some others were better. A frustrating read because many very interesting things are said but stay on the superficial level; a good read nonetheless, not too US-centric.

Very confusing.

This didn't age very well in parts, but I enjoy the sheer optimism and positivity of it. I am definitely a Scanner-Type but I think I'm doing pretty well making the most it, which means I wasn't the target audience for this self help book aimed at very confused and desperate people. There were still many parts that held good advice, but it's really the positive outlook that made reading absolutely worth it.

La Commune de Paris est une époque fascinante, qui mérite qu’on s’y attarde et que tout le monde la connaisse. 

Ce n’est pas le cas, et j’ai trouvé plus d’une fois qu’il était très difficile de s’intéresser à un sujet pourtant passionnant : les ressources sont si austères, si académiques ! 

La non-fiction épistolaire de Ludivine Bantigny est un pas dans la bonne direction. Dans La Commune au présent, elle envoie des lettres à des personnes ayant participé à cette expérience et leur raconte comment nous voyons aujourd’hui ce qu’elles ont fait, se demande ce qu’elles auraient pensé de tel ou tel événement contemporain, leur raconte comment vit leur mémoire, ou comment elle a disparu. Point bonus, et pas facile vu l’époque : je n’ai pas vérifié si la parité était respectée, mais ça ne m’étonnerait pas et les femmes sont en tout cas très bien représentées. 

Une lecture intéressante, encore un peu trop sérieuse pour être tout à fait abordable mais qui s’approche vraiment de ce que j’aimerais lire sur la Commune de Paris !

I've been changing my entire world every decade at most for my entire life, and it gets lonely out there.

Moving to a not-actually-new city and having to start from not-really-scratch has been very hard for the past six months, and my whole approach of friendship doesn't help – I struggle a lot with keeping friends, with creating relationships that aren't a Fight Club type "best friend for the duration of one flight" thing.

So, a bit desperate, I read this book.

Turned out it wasn't a self-help mess that should have been six, maybe eight if I'm generous, instagram slides (looking at you, The Mountain is you) but a well thought out book with many, many psych studies references. I'll put it in the "acceptable pop science books" section over there (it's the one that I hope will be safe from the If Books could kill podcast).

Platonic is an excellent book. It starts with attachment theory, which I don't really vibe with (possibly because I'm avoidant), and then uses it as a loose framework for the actually interesting stuff instead of rigidly closing up every paragraph into one or the other type of attachment. This way, everyone gets to learn something!

The book talks about making new friends, about keeping them, about being less afraid of rejection and about accepting invites more often if you want people to actually invite you again (oops). It also has a huge part about conflict, which can get a bit... American... and ends with very valuable tips for being a minority with "majority" friends. This had some stuff I had never read before and I found it really excellent.

Bref: a great read, for me at least.

Hêtre pourpre m'a dit de faire mon coming-out à ma grand-mère puis a passé le reste de ses pages à me faire passer un très mauvais moment. J'ai pas pu arrêter de le lire.

Toutes les dix pages, un paragraphe exprimait tout ce que j'avais besoin de lire et justifiait le reste de ma lecture.

Le mélange des langues (avec une traduction absolument phénoménale de Rose Labourie) reflétait ce qui se passe dans mon cerveau.

Et accessoirement ma lecture tombe pile au moment où je veux me remettre à l'allemand, une délicieuse coïncidence.

Such an excellent book with such a disappointing ending.

I was really invested in the conspiracy arc and having it end nowhere AND sprinkled with magical realism when the plot could have been just as solid without it?

I truly hope fanfic writers will write the conspiracy arc I need to read. This is excellent material for, well, something else.

This is so long. I'd finish it as a regular book but the audiobook format makes it even longer and I almost dread starting to play it now.

some books should be a 10-slide instagram carousel. this is one of them.