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This one‘s up next. It‘s a reread. Being lost in the hush of an endless dusk these days makes book like this comforting.

#findingjoy

I‘m still considering all of my feelings about this book, but man is it bleak.One day out of the blue an epidemic of white blindness strikes every person in a large city except one and we witness the collapse of society as we know it. The author makes some unique choices—none of the characters are named and the text is presented in block form with no quotations.It definitely requires a deeper analysis—what is the blindness supposed to represent?

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¡Wow! Esas últimas 50 páginas me debilitaron.

“La esperanza de vivir siempre y el temor de no morir nunca.”

My lunch breaks have been pretty busy recently, and I probably went about 2 weeks without reading at home, so I'm pretty happy with what I still got in last month. Lots of graphic novels during down time at work 😁

I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, so it is sometimes jarring to read a book that is so incredibly real and human. Senhor Jose works at the Central Registry, which records citizens birth and death. His side hobby is collecting records of famous people, but one day he finds the record of "an unknown woman" stuck to the back of a famous person's file. And so begins his quest to learn about her and break the mundanity of his bureaucratic existence.

“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
― Jose Saramago, Blindness

I am spending a lot of time lately with small press or non-North American writers. This book was fantastic - set in Angola during the revolution, it is the stories of a number of interconnected characters told in a manner similar to a short story. I enjoyed how we saw various sides of the conflict through different eyes, and the disillusionment of revolutionaries as time passes.

#DaysDevotedTo Day 2: #AllSouls with Pessoa. Here is my book haul from Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, the world‘s oldest operating bookstore in the world, according to the Guinness World Records: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qPD

#DaysDevotedTo Portuguese #Authors while I was in Lisbon a few weeks back - at the ostensibly oldest running bookstore in the world, according to Guinness World Records - Livraria Bertrand founded in 1732.