Litsy

Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel | Pascal Mercier

Recently back from Portugal, and rereading Night Train to Lisbon hits a little different.
What a beautiful (and bookish!) country! I can‘t wait to return! 🇵🇹📖

BookishMarginalia Lovely pic! And 😻😻😻 1mo

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GatheringBooks

Small Memories | Jos� Saramago

#ARichLife Day 28: Lots of #Bread paired with Saramago‘s novel as I was on my way to Lisbon last year. Posting in advance as I will be traveling in two days‘ time.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

ChaoticMissAdventures I was just looking through his books to see what I have not read. Excited to see what you think of this, it wasn't on my radar. 1mo

BookishMarginalia Love the pic! 1mo

Eggs Sounds charming 📖 1mo

TieDyeDude I've only read two Saramago books, but I consider him one of my favorite authors 😋 I'll be interested to see what you think of this 1mo

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CSeydel

Death with Interruptions | Jos� Saramago

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

rachelsbrittain

MallenNC Hellhound on His Trail is such a great book. 2mo

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caioteixe8

Codex 632: The Secret of Christopher Columbus: A Novel | Jos� Rodrigues dos Santos

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Absolutely 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).

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BarbaraBB

Read the World | Pushpinder Khaneka

Adding five countries to #ReadTheWorld2025 for September and October: #Ukraine #Albania #Austria #Croatia and #Portugal, coincidentally all European.

I now have read 31 countries!

GatheringBooks

Bookwormjillk Impressive! 2mo

GatheringBooks Oh wow wow wow! Impressive indeed. I am at 37 countries now and 15 languages (translated) - I keep track here: https://gatheringbooks.org/readtheworld2025/ 2mo

Suet624 Amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2mo

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BarbaraBB

Your Steps on the Stairs: A Novel | Antonio Mu�oz Molina

so-so

After 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

GatheringBooks, sarahbarnes

Hooked_on_books Lille looks so pretty! 🤩 3mo

BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books It‘s a cute and charming city. Much more Belgian than French in my opinion 3mo

sarahbarnes Yeah, I got confused at the end as well. I think the marketing for this one was misleading. 3mo

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GatheringBooks Ooh, intriguing. Love the photo of your travel, too. Lisbon does not seem an ideal place to wait out the end of the world - too many stairs and steep hills (lols). 3mo

BarbaraBB @GatheringBooks 😂😂 3mo

BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes The blurb is really misleading! 3mo

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