je n'ai absolument aucun intérêt pour le narrateur en giga chien 

Un livre pour enfants (et jeunes ados) vraiment très cool, qui raconte une histoire toute mignonne avec une fin qu'on aimerait bien voir dans la vraie vie !

 This was an interesting and thought-provoking read on high performance sport and mostly on doping. 

Doping is a highly emotional issue and going through its history with a new lens took me out of my comfort zone − and it was fascinating. Beamish seems to have a very clear opinion that anti-doping policies are a direct consequence of the cold war, and to a lesser extent of the war on drugs. They’re paternalistic, they’re deeply useless, they’re actively harmful (especially in the case of sex testing), and they lead to so much more danger than doing nothing. Beamish for example argues that steroids are not nearly as dangerous as the myriad of weird mixtures created to evade steroid testing. 

This book should probably not be taken on its own, it goes against pretty much all we’re told about doping and I need to do more research. But it made me think a lot and will lead me to more nuance in the future. 

Fastest, highest, strongest : a critique of high-performance sport is available to borrow and read for free on the Internet Archive. 

 What an interesting little book.

I'm not sure how I feel about it, really - probably because I enjoy reading memoirs, and reading a "fake memoir" makes me feel a bit icky. But for those who have always struggled to bridge the gap between fiction and nonfiction, this might be your perfect introduction.

The protagonist was interesting, the way the author weaved in so many historical details and figures (with instructive footnotes for each of them) and the excellent story made for a really good read, even though I didn't vibe so much with the format. 

The first two thirds were really really good. The third section is about self-defense and wasn't too interesting to me, so I skipped most of it. Good book overall with some very solid foundations.

this might have been a good book if the parents had been less of a caric ture or if the kid had a personality.

Je m'attendais à un recueil d'images : c'est en fait un article académique très très illustré, donc attention au ton assez sec qui peut prendre de court. Une fois la surprise passée, l'ouvrage est extrêmement instructif et montre à la fois les évolutions de la presse syndicale et celles du dessin de presse, avec de nombreuses illustrations et une superbe archive de plein de thèmes, journaux, artistes ou encore approches de sujets parfois pourtant répétitifs. Une très bonne lecture.

Les informations sont très bien (même si parfois un peu périmées parce que manifestement pas mises à jour d'une édition à l'autre). 

Par contre, la maison d'édition a été lamentable : le livre est bourré de fautes d'orthographe sur les mots en langues étrangères et sur les noms des sportifs, ce qui gâche la lecture.