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bcncookbookclub
The Sun on My Head: Stories | Geovani Martins
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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

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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TheSpineView Love beach vacations! 4mo
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cacautoledo
Mar Morto | Jorge Amado
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Pickpick

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.

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shawnmooney
The Love of Singular Men | Victor Heringer
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Shamefully late repost!

https://youtu.be/oUHNxemNEek?feature=shared

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The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer, James Young (Translator)

The Deluge by Stephen Markley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Khwabnama by Akhteruzzaman Elias, Arunava Sinha (Translator)

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vivastory
The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector
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A woman, G.H., in a Rio de Janeiro apartment goes into her maid's room after she has quit. She finds only a strange drawing on the wall & a cockroach in a cabinet. What follows is a monologue that is in turns mesmerizing, baffling, luminous, unsettling & mystical. An unforgettable experience.
#ClassicSummer2024 Book 6

merelybookish Still haven't read anything by Lispector, although I mean to! 9mo
sarahbarnes What @merelybookish said! I‘ve been wanting to read something by her for a long time. 9mo
BarbaraBB I‘m in awe. I found this a difficult book to read. 9mo
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vivastory @merelybookish @sarahbarnes This is a short read, but at times perplexing. I've read a few of Lispector's works & it's my favorite. I also really liked Hour of the Star 9mo
vivastory @BarbaraBB I didn't get all of it, I plan on revisiting it at some point. Def an experience! 9mo
BarbaraBB I enjoyed Hour of the Star too! 9mo
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erzascarletbookgasm
The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector
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Mehso-so

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‘.

BarbaraBB I think I didn‘t get this book.. I had no idea what I was reading 12mo
Suet624 @BarbaraBB Hahaha. Love your comment. 12mo
erzascarletbookgasm @BarbaraBB I didn‘t get it either 😂. I almost bailed but I was amused with her ‘ramblings‘ and wondered where it was all going…nowhere! 12mo
BarbaraBB Nowhere 🤣🤣 12mo
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Augustdana
Near to the Wild Heart | Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser
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I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!

CatLass007 Slumps are no fun. I‘m in hopes that your slump is over. 12mo
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pdxannie
Dom Casmurro | Machado de Assis
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Pickpick

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

birdie_gw You read so fast! I have to translate every word to my minds eye. Makes me slow I think. 13mo
pdxannie I don‘t read fast it‘s just all I did this weekend hahah! 13mo
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BethM
The End | Fernanda Torres
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Welp 😳join us for the last ever round! Looks like I‘ll be signing up despite not currently having room to do so😂🤦‍♀️

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charl08
The Love of Singular Men | Victor Heringer
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Every year is alike: a few days before Christmas, the downpour begins and only stops just before New Year. The filthy water, regurgitated by the drains, floods the streets and invades the houses. Later the reporters arrive to ask if we've lost everything. They film our faces in close-up, hoping we'll cry. 'How are you feeling, senhora?', 'What does it feel like?'

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