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joachim

joachim@lire.boitam.eu

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I mostly read SF&F. My 2021, 2022

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Languages: fr, en.

DM me if you want to read books that I've read, I can lend most of them as ePubs.

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a publié une critique de The Devils par Joe Abercrombie (The Devils, #1)

Joe Abercrombie: The Devils

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation …

Very fun story with memorable characters…

The setting is the Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages, if Carthage had won against Rome, if the Muslims had not conquered the Maghreb and Spain, if Jesus had been a woman, and if Europe had been threatened over the centuries by many elvish invasions. Oh, and magic happens.

The characters are well defined, but perhaps too close to DnD classes: the paladin, the sorcerer (no, the magician!), the cleric, the thief, the barbarian… So the whole adventure feels a bit like a ttrpg campaign.

On the other hand, Abercrombie is a master storyteller and I’m curious about what’s happening next for the company.

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a cité How We Win par George Lakey

George Lakey: How We Win (2018, Melville House Publishing)

Most white southerners believed in the 1950s that they lived in a humane racial system; their myth was that they treated black people well. They also believed that black people accepted segregation, except for a few malcontents. It was shocking for them to see nicely dressed black college students reading their textbooks while sitting at a lunch counter waiting for coffee, when they could get takeout coffee at the back door. Doubly shocking to see white men beating them up. Two secrets were exposed at once: black people want freedom, and segregation requires violence. Millions of slogans on picket signs could not do what a simple sit-in could do. Campaigns have power when we get beyond words-when we show rather than tell.

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a publié une critique de Always North par Vicki Jarrett

Vicki Jarrett: Always North (Paperback, 2019, Unsung Stories Limited)

We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for …

Very well written climate change novel

A climate thriller and anticipation novel, Always North is really well written, with enough poetry, vivid action and complex characters to embark the reader and take them wherever the story goes. And it never goes where it would be predictable -- only the climate catastrophe is.