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My 1st Lispector is unlike any novel I‘ve read. The whole book is the interior monologue of the main character, who seems to be on existential crisis as she muses on identity, death, religion,etc. Her complex philosophical ideas on life are perplexing to me; her thoughts are often contradictory & hard to follow, yet hypnotic. Not a book for everyone. For it being hypnotic & provocative merely from an encounter with a cockroach, it‘s not a ‘pan‘.

I‘ve been in quite the slump lately. Just finished one, and really enjoying this too! Hope this slump is over!

I can‘t believe Dom Casmurro was written in 1899. It‘s brilliant. I read the translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.

Welp 😳join us for the last ever round! Looks like I‘ll be signing up despite not currently having room to do so😂🤦‍♀️

People will think I am obsessed w/ cribs. I swear I'm not! I didn't know when I started this book that it was a kind of riff on nativity plays. It tells the story of Severino, a poor dispossessed peasant who follows the river to try his luck in Recife. All he finds along the way is death and poverty. And a carpenter called José who's just had a child. It is a Brazilian classic & deservedly so. A play in verse that's deep, moving, powerful.
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Delicious black grapes, a spicy, warming classic Yogi Tea, and the tagged book.

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“But the skeleton is free of life and when I'm alive I shudder all over. I won't get the final nudity. And I still don't want it, it seems.

This is the life seen by life.”

Well, #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall, I guess that's it for #Scarathlon 2023. :( I really hope you all had fun this year! I got to read a bunch of new and fun stuff, and I'm sure you all got to as well. Thanks so much for all your hard work! You folks are fantastic!

I was absorbed this evening drinking in the words of Clarice Lispector. Loving this slim volume although it seems to be less than popular on Litsy.

I only really enjoyed 2 of the short stories. I'm happy to finally get this off my Kindle though! I got it for free through Amazon Crossings several years ago.