I started writing this review about the academic epiphany I had while reading this book: the character mentions many writers, thinkers, philosophers, in quotations that made no sense to me. I felt incapable of what I chose as a career. But in the course of writing it, I realized that I got more upset about the book because of another characteristic of mine: that I am a woman. Submission carries such a heavy burden for real events that its pages fail to meet the expectations […]
Suddenly I’m that lady who talks about mystic aliens and stuff on subway.
There are two things I like to do which usually give me a somewhat eccentric aura if seen by strangers: hug trees and, out of nowhere, stop and look at the sky. The cosmos always fascinated me. Not only its colors, its stars, its movements, but also what I can only see with my imagination. So, nothing more obvious than my interest in sci-fi. I am part of a book club with some friends and Childhood’s end was the first book that we read in 2017. […]
People suffers a lot, but my heart was full of hope. I know.
Hi. This is my first CBR and the first review I write. And by forces of a destiny in which I do not believe, this review is about the second book I read from the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mãe, almost 4 years after the first, A máquina de fazer espanhóis (The Spanish making machine, my translation) made me cry copiously for 3 hours, even while eating a hot dog. A wet hot dog, by the way. It was a book so intense that I […]