Mimii

They/He 🇨🇵 that love every book, but essentially romances (mostly the queers ones) and dystopia !! Sometimes I read, sometimes I hear audiobook, and sometimes watched the movie adaptation┌⁠(⁠★⁠ｏ⁠☆⁠)

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Ces prières que je fais dans le noir (La Nuit où les étoiles se sont éteintes, #3)

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Silver: Finished 10 Main Quest books.

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Minuit passé

Gaëlle Geniller

Guerlain revient en compagnie de son jeune fils vivre dans le manoir où lui-même a vécu avec ses trois soeurs étant enfant. Étrangement, il n'a aucun souvenir de ce temps passé. Alors que Guerlain est sujet aux insomnies et que ses nuits sont compliquées, de curieux événements se produisent entre les murs de cette impressionnante bâtisse. Sont-ils bienveillants ou annonciateurs d'un danger imminent ?

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Défaire le discours sexiste dans les médias

Rose Lamy

Une analyse rigoureuse et sans concession du discours sexiste dans les médias, par la créatrice du compte Instagram Préparez-vous pour la bagarre. « Depuis trois ans, je collecte et décortique des centaines d’exemples d’un discours sexiste et antiféministe dans les médias. Bien sûr, ce sexisme ne dit jamais son nom, car depuis la déflagration #MeToo en 2017 il est passé de mode. C’est pourtant lui qui conduit les rédactions à taire ou à reléguer les violences sexistes et sexuelles en périphérie des journaux. C’est lui qui amène un traitement médiatique différencié en fonction du genre. C’est lui qui se loge dans une tournure, une virgule ou le choix d’un mot, participant à la culpabilisation des victimes et à la déresponsabilisation des accusés. C’est encore lui qui, sous couvert d’humour, permet l’humiliation des femmes voire la perpétration d’agressions sexuelles aux heures de grande écoute. Comment prétendre lutter contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles dans la société quand on les perpétue dans les médias ? Quand la dénonciation d’un crime devient une délation, les accusatrices des menteuses au cœur d’un complot international et les accusés des martyrs sacrifiés ? On ne m’aurait pas cru si je m’étais contentée d’affirmer que le discours médiatique produit du sexisme. On ne croit jamais les femmes sur parole. Il fallait rassembler des preuves édifiantes, solides, nombreuses. Alors je l’ai fait. » - Rose Lamy

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Thoughts from 23% TW Chapter 3 (page 107)

The chapter 3 discuss over intersex and what it is to perform a gender that is not ours It's very very interesting, but it could be hard to read the first pages about what happened to David I find it important to know that before reading it (or chose to not read it because it could make you uncomfortable)

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Thoughts from 21% chapter 2 quote (page 97)

Chapitre 2 - régulation du genre

"Un tel point de vu suggère que toute opposition à la norme est déjà contenue dans la norme et que ces oppositions sont cruciales à son fonctionnement."

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Thoughts from 18% citation - quote in french (page 83)

Chapitre 2 - régulation du genre

"Affirmer que le genre est une norme n'est pas exactement la même chose que de dire qu'il y a des conceptions normatives de la féminité et de la masculinité, même si, très clairement, de telles conceptions normatives existent. Le genre n'est pas tout à fait ce qu'on « est » ni ce qu'on « a ». Le genre est le dispositif par lequel le masculin et le féminin sont produits et normalisés en même temps que les formes performatives du genre. Considérer que le terme « genre » se réfère toujours et exclusivement à la matrice du « masculin » et du « féminin » reviens a passer a côté du point critique selon lequel la production de ce binarisme cohérent est continguente, qu'elle a un prix et que les transformations du genre qui ne rentrent pas dans ce cadre binaire font autant partie du genre que ses expressions les plus normatives. Faure l'amalgame entre la définition du genre et ses expressions normatives revienent a reconsolidet involontairement le pouvoir de la norme contraindre la définition du genre."

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The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

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Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad

Virginia Holman

A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way. "1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing, beautiful, and painfully funny memoir of life with her schizophrenic mother in a disintegrating decade. In May 1974, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place, far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of her first psychotic episode, believed she'd been inducted into a secret army. On command of the voices in her head, she spirited her two daughters to the family cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a field hospital. They remained there for four years, waiting for a war that never came. At first, it was easy to explain away her mother's symptoms in the context of the changing times -- her mother was viewed as "finding herself" in the spirit of the decade. When challenged about her delusion of the secret war, she invoked the name of Martha Mitchell. When she exhibited florid psychosis, her aunt, influenced by Hollywood's smash hit movie The Exorcist, seriously suggested that an exorcism might be in order. Even after she was hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1980s, Holman's mother retained just enough lucidity to appease caseworkers in a system seemingly more concerned with protecting a patient's rights than with halting the progress of a woman's desperately dangerous illness. Rescuing Patty Hearst is an unflinching account of the dark days during which Holman's family was held hostage by her mother's delusions and the country was beset by the folly of the Watergate era. It is a startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind. And, finally, it lingers as a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.

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Quattrocento

James N. McKean

Matt O’Brien, an assistant curator and art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has always been passionate about the Italian Renaissance. But when he discovers a long-neglected portrait of a beautiful woman among the museum’s miles of storage bins, he becomes obsessed--and not only because he suspects that the painting is by Leonardo da Vinci. Something about the mysterious woman’s exquisite face stirs his memory, and when Matt finds himself spun across the centuries into Quattrocento Italy, where he arrives perfectly attired in 15th century clothing, he appears to be free to pursue her. A magically woven, richly detailed debut, Quattrocento tells an unforgettable tale of art, and love, and the unexpected places places where they meet.

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Chapitre 1 - Hors de soi (citation/quote on french)

"Si de nouvelles formes de genres sont possibles, comment cela affecte-t-il nos modes de vie et le besoin concret de la communauté humaine ? Comment pouvons-nous distinguer entre les genres possible qui ont la valeur et ceux qui n'en ont pas ? Il ne s'agit pas simplement de produire un futur piur des genres qui n'existent pas encore. Les genres que j'ai en tête existent depuis longtemps, mais n'ont pas encore été admis dans les termes qui gouvernent la réalité.

Il s'agit de développer, dans la loi, dans la psychiatrie, dans la théorie sociale et littéraire, un nouveau lexique légitimant la complexité de genre dans laquelle nous avons toujours vécu.

Les normes qui gouvernent la réalité n'ayant pas admis Quz ces formes sont réelles, nous les appellerons, par nécessité « nouvelles ».

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Les Hommes hétéros le sont-ils vraiment ?

Léane Alestra

Si les femmes subissent l’injonction à être de « vraies femmes », les hommes, eux, sont sommés de respecter les normes sociales de la virilité pour être validés par les autres mâles. Dès lors, la séduction hétéro serait-elle une affaire d’hommes ? Pour explorer ce paradoxe, Léane Alestra s’appuie sur la philosophie, l’histoire, la littérature, la sociologie et la théologie, interrogeant la contrainte à l’hétérosexualité et le dressage des genres auxquels les individus sont soumis. De Maupassant en passant par Jésus, Dracula, Beigbeder ou Victor Hugo, ce livre passionnant et ébouriffant décortique les ficelles sociales guidant nos désirs, que l’on soit un homme ou non, sans se limiter au seul champ de la sexualité. En s’appuyant sur cinquante ans de recherche française et anglo-saxonne, il analyse les rapports que les hommes entretiennent aux hommes, et tente d’élucider ce qui se cache derrière l’homophobie masculine. Et si explorer ce tabou était un point de départ essentiel pour repenser notre société ?

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

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Undoing Gender

Judith Butler

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern and fail to govern gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.

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New Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.

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Sep 12, 2025

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler

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La théorie des cordes: Poèmes funambules

Pierre FAURY

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Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)

Alice Oseman

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of HEARTSTOPPER, for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon. Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Charlie's beginning to feel ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick's been feeling the same, but he's got a lot on his mind - not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder. As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means. Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. This is the fourth volume of Heartstopper, which has now been optioned for television by See-Saw Films.

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Sep 10, 2025

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Every Poems is very modern. In a way I could imagine Apollinaire writing notes in his phone and publish his book next He alternatively propose very short poems, and very elaborated ones with weird structures

It's kinda refreshing to read some poetry that is not always "pure" and "serious" as you can expect from a classic book

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