Still working through my last #GrimReaders pick… Death with Interruptions is charming, incisive and inventive, but also a slow read. The stream-of-consciousness format, with no quotation marks or line breaks, is not difficult exactly, once you get used to it, but it does require intense concentration. I‘m enjoying it.
Hellhound is, of course, gripping. #weekendreads
pickAbsolutely loved this one.
As a Brazilian and having studied the early Portuguese colonial period, I was just amazed on how things can be hidden and how political interests may interfere on a whole strategy approach (here mostly on naval/navigation terms).
Adding five countries to #ReadTheWorld2025 for September and October: #Ukraine #Albania #Austria #Croatia and #Portugal, coincidentally all European.
I now have read 31 countries!
so-soAfter 9/11 the narrator of this book moves from NYC to Lisbon to wait for the end of the world. He‘s waiting for his partner Cecilia in his new apartment, that very much resembles the NY one.
Described as a psychological thriller the book is much more a stream of conscience novel and I have to say I got very confused at the end. Just like the narrator. Not sure what to think.
📸 Lille, France
#ReadTheWorld2025 #31 #Portugal
#bookreport #September28toOctober4
Still reading the first 4 books from the top. Finished the last 5 books. #sundaybuddyread #wildwoman #MarkTwain #familyread #ABeatriceSteeleNovel #audiomystery #ElectraMcDonnell #5 #GabrielAllonThriller #readyourkindle #NF #ColdCaseUnitMystery #TimeTravel #librayfinds
Starting this tonight. #ElectraMcDonnellNovel —2nd out of 4 “ new” library books I need to read.
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.
#ABookADay2025
pickI‘m not usually a fan of childhood memoir, but I enjoyed this look back at Saramago‘s young years. Around 100 years ago in Portugal is so different from my own experience, and he tells vignettes, giving an overall impression rather than a straightforward recounting. His writing is just so good that I was carried along.
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