paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book
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Asterix in Britain (French: Astérix chez les Bretons, "Asterix in the land of the Britons") is the eighth in the …
« Right or wrong, my country » , l'adage anglo-saxon…
— Les révolutions de France et d'Amérique by Georges Gusdorf (Page 8)
As if from 'Astérix chez les Bretons' comes this charming backwards phrase. I wonder if I still have that Astérix around here somewhere…
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and …
The story of the French Revolution is the story of how a group of educated young Frenchmen, many of them lawyers, set about building a new state in France… The fall of the Bastille was in fact wholly unrepresentative of the real work of the Revolution… [which was done] in orderly, dignified and well-dressed silence.
— The French Revolution by Ian Davidson (Page 1)
Even if the dude proves his case, I haven't the time or desire to read 250 pages about how rich bougies were the real heroes of the revolution. I'm actually walking this back to the library so it doesn't stink up the house.
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, …
I pull this out every year. It's not the tradition I was raised in, but I try to learn something each time.
The bestselling entertaining guide from America's most delightfully unconventional hostess is now available in paperback! …
Well-written and funny, with a fair number of drug references, and recipes that look like they just might work, but one is a little reluctant to commit a lot of time to recipes from someone who proclaims herself to have both a primary and a backup dealer.
The bookstores really don’t know where to file this — some file it under Humor, some under Cooking, some just give up and stick it on a table in the middle of the store. During the book tour, Sedaris was at her most animated when railing against those who want to call it humor — she takes the recipe and entertaining bit very seriously, in an ironic sort of way, and she wants people to take her book seriously. It’s as if she truly believed she was the Betty Crocker for the new millennium, a burnt-out roach in the ashtray and a medicine …
Well-written and funny, with a fair number of drug references, and recipes that look like they just might work, but one is a little reluctant to commit a lot of time to recipes from someone who proclaims herself to have both a primary and a backup dealer.
The bookstores really don’t know where to file this — some file it under Humor, some under Cooking, some just give up and stick it on a table in the middle of the store. During the book tour, Sedaris was at her most animated when railing against those who want to call it humor — she takes the recipe and entertaining bit very seriously, in an ironic sort of way, and she wants people to take her book seriously. It’s as if she truly believed she was the Betty Crocker for the new millennium, a burnt-out roach in the ashtray and a medicine cabinet full of Valium (and marbles).
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her …
When Rabbi Rachel Adler, esteemed feminist theologian, decided her new apartment needed a cat, she searched the local shelters. One …
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when …
The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in …
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my …
with all the gloom and doom i needed a nice 'bad witch meets golden boy, hates him immediately' story
In May 1998, the US Congress invited the seven members of the L0pht to testify on the state of government …
