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I find myself wanting to like this book desperately, but I don't know what to think. Don't get me wrong: This Is How You Lose the Time War has beautiful prose and romance, fascinating worldbuilding and a satisfactory ending, but ultimately I don't think it agrees with my brain or the way I read stuff.
One specific word pops into my head whenever I think of anything Little Women-related: darling. It's a darling story, a cozy tale of a family of girls who are virtuous and kind and lovely and grow up to be virtuouser and kinder and lovelier. Delightful at its best, honestly preachy and draggy at its worst, it's the kind of book you can read at your own pace, finding, more often than not, some little thing to keep your heart warm.
People love this one—and I can see why! It's intriguing and mysterious, with a nice and unexpected, yet satisfying, ending to boot. Do I love it? This kind of story unfortunately doesn't seem to work for me: the investigation takes too long, the exposition feels too much. I find myself bored out of my mind with all the interviews and testimonies and guesses. Happy it's over :)
Been a while since the last time I felt this swept away by a novel, even though it took me way longer than usual to read. The characters in A Shadow in Summer feel like old friends, and being in their skin and seeing them act on their fate is almost like feeling the hurt and disappointment yourself. Really, I hoped I wouldn't like this as much as I did—now I'm gonna have to seek out the sequel eventually.
É um bom livro. Não sei se sei dizer mais do que isso, até porque livro bom é mais difícil de comentar — e aí penso nos defeitos e aí a resenha me parece injusta. Vale dizer que eu queria muito muito que o texto fosse em terceira pessoa, e a melhor parte, é claro, é que os capítulos são todos curtinhos e uma delícia de engolir.
Though I wouldn't recommend you buying On Writing and Worldbuilding if you're not already into Timothy Hickson's essays on YouTube—there are much better writing books out there—or Avatar: The Last Airbender—which, as a fact, I am not—or his humor—it doesn't always work on paper—, it's alright. Not at all a Bible or something you must read by any means, but it does the trick for the most part.
Fica difícil comentar e fazer jus ao texto delicado de Natalia Borges Polesso. Embora coletâneas sejam uma coisa complicada em si, desniveladas como são, e apesar dos contos às vezes curtos demais, difíceis de envolver, Amora mantém em seu lirismo o sentimento doído e apertado da existência queer, um mundo de experiências em que só existindo pra saber.
Pensei bem em deixar sem nota, visto que não é exatamente o tipo de obra que combina com meu ritmo de leitura e que, a grosso modo, eu precisaria de pelo menos mais uma ou duas tentativas para absorver tudo o que tem aqui, mas qualquer outra avaliação seria um desrespeito com o trabalho primoroso de Jacyntho Lins Brandão. Possivelmente um dos melhores trabalhos tradutórios que já vi.
I wish people wouldn't look at non-fiction books as if they were fiction. Redefining Realness is a beautiful and raw memoir by a person who not only survived abuse, rape and transphobia, but a hell of an overall difficult life, getting to a place where she feels comfortable telling us her journey. In these pages, Janet Mock allows us to go through her experiences with her, to get to know not only the person behind the pages, but a rough life many will fortunately never know—and many still do everywhere in the world.
You don't have to like the book, but how can anyone complain that she focuses way too much on romance? When she's telling her story she can damn well focus on anything she wants. Pardon my Portuguese, but eu hein?
Laurentino Gomes no prefácio: Perguntei a Carla Camurati por que ela retratou a família real de forma tão caricata no filme Carlota Joaquina, Princesa do Brazil.
Laurentino Gomes no resto do livro: Bom, a família real portuguesa era completamente RIDÍCULA, um verdadeiro absurdo kkkk pelo amor de deus!!!