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1. At the beach... and in summer, like in Rio de Janeiro...
2. Tagged book, short stories about grown-up in the favela neighbourhood.

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Personagens como o jovem mestre de saveiro Guma parecem prisioneiros de um destino traçado há muitas gerações: os homens saem para o mar que um dia os tragará, levando-os com Iemanjá para as lendárias terras de Aiocá. No dia em que eles não voltarem, elas cairão na miséria ou na prostituição. Lívia, amada que busca em vão libertar Guma do chamado do mar desempenhará um papel pioneiro na mudança de condição da mulher.

My 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.

I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!

I can‘t believe Dom Casmurro was written in 1899. It‘s brilliant. I read the translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.

Welp 😳join us for the last ever round! Looks like I‘ll be signing up despite not currently having room to do so😂🤦‍♀️

People will think I am obsessed w/ cribs. I swear I'm not! I didn't know when I started this book that it was a kind of riff on nativity plays. It tells the story of Severino, a poor dispossessed peasant who follows the river to try his luck in Recife. All he finds along the way is death and poverty. And a carpenter called José who's just had a child. It is a Brazilian classic & deservedly so. A play in verse that's deep, moving, powerful.
#Brazil

#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace #hyggehour

Delicious black grapes, a spicy, warming classic Yogi Tea, and the tagged book.

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“But the skeleton is free of life and when I'm alive I shudder all over. I won't get the final nudity. And I still don't want it, it seems.

This is the life seen by life.”