Although I didn't get on too well with Clarice Lispector, I'm not ready to give up on #Brazil 🇧🇷 for #ReadingTheAmericas2023, so dipping into the old TBR pile for Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Given Bolsonaro's attempt to replay Trump's armed insurrection on the seat of government, this one feels relevant despite having been published in 1968.
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
bailed"Dr Lucas lent her a book once, but she had a hard time taking it in ... she'd talk and talk with the doctor and couldn't convey anything to him."
This sums up my experience of reading the first 18 pages. My eyes glide over the sentences without really touching them; the individual words register, but I can't parse any meaning from them, and when I reread what I've read seconds ago, I feel no familiarity, as if the words fell into a black hole, ⬇️
My first book for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 is from #Brazil ??, Clarice Lispector's "The Besieged City". I've read one of her short stories in a collection edited by Manguel, but this is my first novel of hers, and I'm surprised to see that it will be my first novel by a Brazilian writer, but that's what this challenge is for, to expand my global reading coverage! ☺️ ???
so-soThis audio started out great but about 1/3 way in it became a bit YA angsty 🙄Still a pleasant story told through the eyes of a house in #Brazil whose occupants change throughout the years. What the families share are a teen grappling with their sexuality. #ReadingTheAmericas Also works for #52BookClub23 and #Booked2023
Loving this audio!! Interconnected short stories told through the voice of a house in #Brazil who‘s occupants change through the years but each family has an LGBTQ+ teen character. It‘s really fantastic. #Scribd
BONUS: One story is #AboutAPandemic #Booked2023 and #52BookClub23 #Secrets
Bummed I can‘t use the #TriplePlay but maybe you can @squirrelbrain @jenniferw88 @Megabooks @KarenUK ?!?!! Who am I forgetting???
It‘s hard to predict what I‘ll read this week but here‘s my #WeeklyForecast nonetheless ♥️
Two for #ReadingTheAmericas #Bolivia #Brazil
My last one for #ReadingAfrica22 ( but I will not complete the challenge)
Going to attempt #ToB23 shortlisted title - Babel
And the other 2 are calling me!!
Finished my ARC of Soul Twin - meh
The new Borderless Bookclub programme is out!
I am looking forward to discovering some new books in translation.
Open membership (online) - more info https://borderlessbookclub.com/programme
#InTranslation #ReadHarder #Brazil #Italy #Iceland
pick#BookerInternationalLonglist2022 Book 3 #Brazil
Really appreciated this look at the question of racial identity in Brazil and what it means to be black.
Loved the afterword by the narrator about the complexities of translating the ideas of Brazilian Black and White into English where the connotations are very different.
Full review here soon https://thereadersroom.org/
Too late for #Brazil (Brazilian author) #foodandlit but this Audible daily deal still might be of interest.
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