What Are You Reading?

[Snejana Onopka]

Never thought that you liked Guimaraes Rosa!

Campo Geral is maybe my favorite piece by GR. Soooo beautiful.
Loved also a lot O recado do morro, storytelling at its finest.

Burití was ... boring ,😅 but also super hypnotic. Like there was some sort of secret in that story nobody could talk about.

GR, Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector are my favorites from Brazil.

i love him! in high school his books were always on the syllabus in high school, it was inevitable

campo geral is truly one the most magical pieces of literature, miguilim’s journey is so sad but beautiful at the same time (you can physically fell miguilim’s pain when dito died 😭). have you read sagarana ?

can’t remember much of buriti so i’m with you on that lol

what are your favourites by machado and clarice ??

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

i love him! in high school his books were always on the syllabus in high school, it was inevitable

campo geral is truly one the most magical pieces of literature, miguilim’s journey is so sad but beautiful at the same time (you can physically fell miguilim’s pain when dito died 😭). have you read sagarana ?

can’t remember much of buriti so i’m with you on that lol

what are your favourites by machado and clarice ??

Campo Geral... the reading glasses 😭😭

Yes, I've read Sagarana and loved it, but to be very honest the story that I remember best is A hora e a vez de Augusto Matraga, awesome. The rest is a little blurry in my mind...

By Machado de Assis I recommend you Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. A xixth century novel written by a mind of the xxth century. Extremely original.

Love Clarice. Reading all of her stories during lockdown in 2020 was an intense experience. To recommend you one that is not of her most popular : Via Crucis do corpo.
But everything she wrote was amazing. Her mind and eyes just worked differently from ours.

I want to read Apple in the darkness!!

How about you and Clarice?

 

[Snejana Onopka]

Campo Geral... the reading glasses 😭😭

Yes, I've read Sagarana and loved it, but to be very honest the story that I remember best is A hora e a vez de Augusto Matraga, awesome. The rest is a little blurry in my mind...

By Machado de Assis I recommend you Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. A xixth century novel written by a mind of the xxth century. Extremely original.

Love Clarice. Reading all of her stories during lockdown in 2020 was an intense experience. To recommend you one that is not of her most popular : Via Crucis do corpo.
But everything she wrote was amazing. Her mind and eyes just worked differently from ours.

I want to read Apple in the darkness!!

How about you and Clarice?

memórias póstumas was the theme of my thesis when i was in fashion school! pure brilliance, you discover something new at every reading (it took me two readings to fully grasp the complexity of the scene where bras cubas meets prudêncio again lol). quincas borba is great too, not as much as dom casmurro and bras cubas.

clarice was definitely a bruxa 😭 she took a peek at the deepest secrets of the universe and was kind enough to share it with us mortals. as you’re reading her stories it feels like all syntax and semantics are constantly dissolving, she then rearranges everything: what you couldn’t understand at the start suddenly begins to make sense and you start questioning if your flesh and bones even exist lol. i LOVE livro dos prazeres, água viva, via crucis and a paixão segundo g.h (her short stories a menor mulher do mundo and a galinha e o ovo, are favourites as well). i haven’t read a maçã no escuro, i fell like im not ready yet for this book haha.

since we’re talking about clarice, have you read anything by hilda hilst and lygia fagundes telles ?

 

[Kanzai]

World of Warcraft chronicle vol 4 (I’m a game lore nerd) and Soul Mountain (灵山) by Gao Xingjian

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I want to read The Policing of Families by Jacques Donzelot but I don’t think I have the 🧠

 

[susseinmcswanny]

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. So interesting!! In the words of the wise Cardi B, we all got something in common. We all r*tarded.

 

[MulletProof]

I'm halfway through Lee Hawkins' I Am Nobody's Slave. Very good and at times difficult to get through, apparently violence on children really stresses the hell out of me.. and in general, I've tried to do better at learning American history but then you read stuff like this and it's.. 😣, there's never some middle ground if you go way back, it's either painfully boring (settlers settling? yawns) or just.. wildly barbaric (massacres to settle in, slavery).

 

[Drusilla_]

Middlemarch by George Eliot

 

[Anne Dromeda]

Too many books: gleaning inspiration from everywhere at once as usual ad absurdum:
- Making Monsters: the Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (David Livingstone Smith)
- The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard (Étienne Gilson)
- Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: the House of Houqua and the Canton System (John D. Wong)
- my own ongoing manuscript - as I write and edit it.

 

[MulletProof]

- Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: the House of Houqua and the Canton System (John D. Wong)

is this a relatively accessible read for someone totally green on Asian studies? that topic is so fascinating to me but I never know where to start...

 

[Anne Dromeda]

is this a relatively accessible read for someone totally green on Asian studies? that topic is so fascinating to me but I never know where to start...

It's an academic history of economy, but the writing is more history than economics, so that's a yes.
The author, a uni professor from Hong Kong, focuses on personal relationships as the foundations for trade ties, how this enabled a view of trade as global in scope, which was ahead of its time. It also endeavours to discover how business was done in the Pearl River Delta before the Ching Dynasty interfered and before the aftermath of the Opium Wars when the West chose to impose their own practice.
It starts early - in the first half of the 1700's. I was drawn to pick this book up because the figure of Houqua is central to the Chinese story in America.

 

[Drusilla_]

took a break to read Murder on the Orient Express for the first time in 25 years

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Do you think Baudelaire would’ve liked cheezits?

 

[Drusilla_]

The Hunter by Tana French