Portugal – Brazil – Portuguese Literature
Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star
Probably full of literary merit — but decidedly not my jam. I wasn’t planning to write a review of this book, but since I already voiced off in a PM, I might as well copy my thoughts into a post after all. Long story short, I’m finding, once again, that a combination of art- and […]
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11 Public Libraries Invaluable to World History | Oldest
Source: 11 Public Libraries Invaluable to World History | Oldest 11 Public Libraries Invaluable to World History Libraries around the world have long been revered as temples of human knowledge. They’ve been a part of monasteries, royal palaces, museums, universities and even hospitals. Some boast an incredibly romantic past while others, like the Library […]
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Book Covers: Young Women with Flowers
24 Festive Tasks: Door 4 – Diwali, Task 4: During Diwali, people pray to the goddess Lakhshmi, who is typically depicted as a beautiful young woman holding a lotus flower. Find 5 books on your shelves (either physical or virtual) whose covers show a young woman holding a flower and share their cover images. […]
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Patrick O’Brian: The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
I love O’Brian’s Aubrey / Maturin series and raced through the whole 20 books at breakneck speed earlier this year, but by God, this particular publication (I won’t even call it a “book”, because it isn’t) has to be one of the most blatant exercises in the exploitation of an author’s literary legacy under the […]
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Books With Numbers in the Title
Shout-out to URL Phantomhive for the idea! All of these are taken from my “Read” shelf. Sometimes, the numbers are in the subtitle. Books with several numbers (e.g., history books with a date range in their title) are entered for all numbers. Note: Updated as of March 2021. Zero / None Half […]
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Anna Maria Ortese: L’Iguana
Humanity’s fall from grace between reality, dream and lunacy. Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier’s family often short on money. Like many poor girls of her generation, Ortese left school at age thirteen, […]
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