“If Adam was punished for wishing to resemble God, how do men come to have God inside them without being punished, and even when they do not wish to receive Him they go unpunished, for to have and not to wish to have God inside oneself amounts to the same absurdity, and the same impossible situation...
So she protected herself from death by living less, consuming so little of her life that she’d never run out.(p. 24). What a strange, short book. I'm not entirely sure if I enjoyed the story or not, but I did really enjoy the prose. There are many hauntingly beautiful sentences; I had to take a mome...
The Best. Subtle. Beautifully written. Unassuming. Adam and Eve. Yin and Yang. 2 halves of the same apple. A simple love story. Spiritual. Unusual setting. Will stay with me. Love Jose. Always...
Despite its title The History of the Siege of Lisbon doesn’t revolve around the proven historical facts of 1147, but they serve José Saramago only as background for a love story taking place eight centuries later. Correcting the proofs of a history book Raimundo Benvindo Silva intentionally adds a...
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF WRITERS. The first one writes for his public, and the last writes for himself.Clarice is the kind that writes for herself, and it shows in her works. Specially in this novella.But it's okay, because it's Clarice Lispector, a woman who looks like an old Hollywood sexy villain, ...
I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
I really liked the book, especially the strange way in which it was written. I got lost in the dialog sometimes, which, to me, represented the feelings of blindness and disorientation very well.The beginning of the book was incredible at showing a society-wide panic that overtakes everybody, regardl...
The paragraphs in this thing are massive... Opening to a random page gave me a paragraph that was 13.5 PAGES long. As excited as I am about this book, I'm weary of it now.
Took me a while to finish as I read the book basically as a daily devotion. Nothing earth-shattering here, and honestly I have to say I was a bit disappointed in it as a whole. I was prepared for some courageous activity on the page but really did not connect to much of anything. Nonetheless, it wa...
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