Yeah that’s surprisingly one thing we all agree on

Also good: !buyeuropean@feddit.uk

• UK-based: https://uk.bookshop.org/
• France-based: https://www.recyclivre.com/ (second-hand), https://www.leslibraires.fr/

Gorgeous!

I didn’t hate it. I liked it. I didn’t love it tbh and was disappointed because it had been overhyped in my opinion.

I think R.F. Kuang is a glorious writer if 1/ you like worldbuilding and extensive exposition and 2/ you don’t mind messy and underwhelming endings.

Political maps are a terrible tool for visualizing cultural / linguistic practices (and on this one, colonization didn’t make it even worse). Just gotta roll with it and enjoy the weird assumptions :)

I prefer to support smaller instances, but don’t have a problem with lemmy.ml specifically (whereas I do sometimes go out of my way to avoid lemmy.world)

I believe someone had asked for it and they said it was nearly impossible. You’d be able to do it in a single given app maybe, but the « download an episode by default » system, the (wonderful) variety of podcasting apps, and the variety of podcast ad services all make it nearly impossible. It’s somewhere in the issues!

This extension really changed my life, or at least my fraught relationship with YouTube!

Paris doesn’t need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)

Otherwise yes sounds right.

They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.

• Industrial revolution
• Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
• 1946 to 1970 is “les trente glorieuses”, the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
• The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
• The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
• 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.

Just started The daughter of Doctor Moreau yesterday.

Before that, Rana Joon and the one and only now was absolutely wonderful and I really recommend it.

I have no recommendations but please know that Gender Trouble is actually a psyop book written only to melt the brain of people who attempt to read it (/s)

I just can’t get my head around this monster of a book!

Isn’t that just the metadata?

Poor Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden not even speaking their countries’ languages :(

(One of the first things I learned when I joined the Localization industry was to never use a flag to represent a language!)

Yes, especially books I want to lend to friends because I thought they deserved attention.

Hahaha that’s fair! I’m a big mood reader and happy to ignore my TBR (which I keep small) so reading new releases does happen sometimes :)

Yes and no: I don’t on purpose, but sometimes I end up doing them because of Halloween related releases :)

It’s so gorgeous!

Let me guess. Rating companies are US-based?