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Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay

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Hi! I am a Norwegian-Brazilian guy. I'm often confused about things, until I'm not. For non-book stuff, I have other accounts:

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Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit (AudiobookFormat, 2020, Macmillan Audio) 5 stars

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, …

The contrast between consumer and producer identities points to two different ways of understanding the common good. One approach, familiar among economic policy makers, defines the common good as the sum of everyone’s preferences and interests. According to this account, we achieve the common good by maximizing consumer welfare, typically by maximizing economic growth. If the common good is simply a matter of satisfying consumer preferences, then market wages are a good measure of who has contributed what. Those who make the most money have presumably made the most valuable contribution to the common good, by producing the goods and services that consumers want.

A second approach rejects this consumerist notion of the common good in favor of what might be called a civic conception. According to the civic ideal, the common good is not simply about adding up preferences or maximizing consumer welfare. It is about reflecting critically on our preferences—ideally, elevating and improving them—so that we can live worthwhile and flourishing lives. This cannot be achieved through economic activity alone. It requires deliberating with our fellow citizens about how to bring about a just and good society, one that cultivates civic virtue and enables us to reason together about the purposes worthy of our political community.

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Lynne Tillman: Weird Fucks (Paperback, 2021, Peninsula Press) No rating

A few drinks and I begin to appreciate Josh because he is so very attentive. This is a form of flattery that is most convincing, particularly at a party. When I was fourteen I discovered that boys would fall in love with me if listened to everything they said. A strong sense of integrity prohibited me from continuing this form of seduction. And, in addition to integrity, there was the problem of having to continue to listen to them.

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Terry Pratchett, Peter Serafinowicz, Indira Varma (Narrator), Bill Nighy (Narrator): Equal Rites (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Transworld) 4 stars

Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum …

It is well known—at least, it is well known to witches—that all colonies of bees are, as it were, just one part of the creature called the Swarm, in the same way that individual bees are component cells of the hivemind. Granny didn’t mingle her thoughts with the bees very often, partly because insect minds were strange, alien things that tasted of tin, but mostly because she suspected that the Swarm was a good deal more intelligent than she was.

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John Williams: Stoner (Swedish language, 2015, Natur & kultur) 5 stars

Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in …

Denna boken är helt garanterat inte självbiografisk!

5 stars

Content warning Kort summering av handlingen, inte detaljerad

Anne Bitsch: Går du nå, er du ikke lenger min datter 5 stars

«Som barn skjønte jeg det aldri, hvorfor andre ikke ville hjelpe oss, sånn på ordentlig. …

Sterk, sterk lesning

5 stars

Dette var ikke på ingen måte en koselig lesing, men en viktig en alikevel. Anne Bitsch forteller om hvordan det var å vokse opp under vold og misbruk som - av ymse, og på mange måte uforklarte - grunn, ikke ble stoppet eller til og med sett. Dette er en ærlig og subjektiv fortelling, som åpner lesernes øyene for hva kan man gjøre for at barn ikke utsettes for det hun ble utsatt for? Ikke overraskende at boken sluttes med akkurat dette spørsmålet. Hennes fortelling gjennom 70,80,90 og 2000 årene gir oss lesere perspektiv, sinn, og fortvilelse: hadde vi være i stand til å gjøre noe om vi var hennes nabo, lærer og ellers bare bekjente? Samtidig er det noe med boka som er universell, og det er det som fanget meg mest: hvor mye av skjebnen vår ble fastsatte av det vi opplever i barndommen vår? Svaret er sikkert …

Zeshan Shakar: De kaller meg ulven (Paperback, Norwegian bokmål language) 5 stars

Vinner av Bokhandlerprisen 2022.

«Hvorfor hadde de ikke mer, husker jeg at jeg tenkte etter …

Review of 'De kaller meg ulven' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Ok, jeg skulle gi 4-stjerner til denne boka. Den var ikke på samme nivå som Tante Ulrikkes Vei eller Gul bok. Men jeg ga 5-stjerner alikevel, fordi denne boka snakker til meg på en annen måte. Når man er delt mellom to kulturer og må si farvel til en mor eller en far, man lever med det for resten av livet. Hans følelser, som var veldig godt beskrevet i boka, var litt av mine følelser. Da må det trumfer over den litterære kvaliteten - som var høy, men dom sagt ikke like fe første bøkene.