ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ books

lembre-se sempre que, em vez de focar no resultado final, como livros lidos no mês ou ano, o objetivo é criar o hábito de leitura! você passou anos sem ler, não dá para voltar no mesmo ritmo. por enquanto: 30 páginas por dia

• the priory of the orange tree, samantha shannon
• nordic tales: folktales from norway, sweden, finland, iceland, and denmark, ulla thynell
• chorus of mushrooms, hitomi goto
• a rede de alice, kate quinn
• kitchen, banana yoshimoto
• the book of delights: essays, ross gay
• ensaio sobre a cegueira, josé saramago ☆
• o alienista, machado de assis
• 132 crônicas: cascos & carícias, e outros escritos, hilda hilst
• on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong ☆
• lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, j.r.r. tolkien
• lord of the rings: the two towers, j.r.r. tolkien
• sobre os ossos dos mortos, olga tokarczuk
• upstream: selected essays, mary oliver
• the magical language of others, e. j. koh
• before the coffee gets cold, toshikazu kawaguchi
• convenience store woman, sayaka murata
• a zona morta, stephen king
• fragmento, warren fahy
• sleepwalking, meg wolitzer
• normal people, sally rooney
• o vendedor de sonhos: o chamado, augusto cury
• o vendedor de sonhos e a revolução dos anônimos, augusto cury
• o semeador de ideias, augusto cury
• the invisible life of addie larue, v. e. schwab
• normal people, sally rooney
• klara and the sun, kazuo ishiguro
• the memory police, yoko ogawa
• the undressing: poems, li-young lee
• these violent delights, chloe gong

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ essays

• what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one? □
• after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back □
• on the igbo art of storytelling □
• these love letters between 12th century nuns are hauntingly beautiful □
• pansexuality's troubled past and present □
• why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people □
• laziness does not exist □
• what the caves are trying to tell us □
• airpods are a tragedy □
• how millenials became the burnout generation □
• the unbereable daintiness of women who eat with men □
• the art of loving and losing female friends □
• will the millennial aesthetic ever end? □
• is my absence from social media a red flag? □
• ‘the queen’s gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on tv? □
• ask polly: my boyfriend thinks i'm ugly □
• you don’t have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences □
• on memorizing poetry □
• reading in the age of constant distraction □
• holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light □
• romancing the fig: what one fruits can tell us about love, life, and human civilization □
• chopin's interest in men airbrushed from history □
• mystery & birds: 5 ways to practice poetry □
• can a plant remember? this is one seems to — here's the evidence □
• why female cannibals frighten and fascinate □
• the sickness in the wellness industry □
• the weight of our living: on hope, fire scapes, and visible desperation □
• when you give a tree an email adress □
• the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki □

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ poetry

• catalog of unabashed gratitude, ross gay □
• a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems, fernando pessoa □
• night walk, franz wright □
• bestiary: poems, donika kelly □
• i ration moments of beauty now, ilika □
• this compilation on trees
• whales weep not!, d. h. lawrence □
• to the desert, benjamin alire sáenz □
• loneliness, mary oliver □
• if you knew, ellen bass □
• on june blossoming in june, karen an-hwei lee □
• selected poems: celebrating childhood, adonis □
• night that overflows my body, mahmoud darwish □

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ short stories

• fungus, guadalupe nettel. translated by j.t. lichtenstein
  • Unlike my mother during my childhood, I decided to remain with the fungus forever. To live with a parasite is to accept the occupation. Any parasite, as harmless as it may be, has the uncontainable need to spread. It is important to limit it, or else it will invade us entirely.

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• dracula's guest
  • As I held the telegram in my hand, the room seemed to whirl around me, and if the attentive maitre d’hotel had not caught me, I think I should have fallen. There was something so strange in all this, something so weird and impossible to imagine, that there grew on me a sense of my being in some way the sport of opposite forces—the mere vague idea of which seemed in a way to paralyze me.

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• my country is a ghost, eugenia triantafyllou
  • When Niovi tried to smuggle her mother’s ghost into the new country, she found herself being passed from one security officer to another, detailing her mother’s place and date of death over and over again.

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• open house on a haunted hill, john wiswell
  • 133 Poisonwood Avenue would be stronger if it was a killer house. There is an estate at 35 Silver Street that annihilated a family back in the 1800s and its roof has never sprung a leak since. In 2007 it still had the power to trap a bickering couple in an endless hedge maze that was physically only three hundred square feet. 35 Silver Street is a show-off.

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• call them children, wenmimareba klobah collins
  • At the other side of the counter, Mamá stirs sancocho with the candlelight drawing tenderness onto her features. “I am lucky to have you,” she says. “Mi tesoro.” It is, really, all she ever says anymore.