Diogo's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:57:21 -0700 60 Diogo's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Martyr! 139400713 A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Diogo 0 to-read 4.22 2024 Martyr!
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]]> História do Cerco de Lisboa 1103773 348 José Saramago Diogo 0 to-read 3.89 1989 História do Cerco de Lisboa
author: José Saramago
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]]> <![CDATA[Persepolis. The story of a childhood (Persepolis, #1)]]> 9516
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.]]> 153 Marjane Satrapi 037571457X Diogo 0 to-read 4.27 2003 Persepolis. The story of a childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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]]> Lonely Castle in the Mirror 54633167
Delving into their emotional lives with sympathy and a generous warmth, Lonely Castle in the Mirror shows the unexpected rewards of reaching out to others. Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart-warming novel is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and vulnerability.]]> 355 Mizuki Tsujimura 0857527274 Diogo 0 to-read 4.25 2017 Lonely Castle in the Mirror
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]]> The Bullet Swallower 123847255 A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He’s good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he’s also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it—with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed by the Texas Rangers, Antonio finds himself launched into a quest for revenge that endangers not only his life and his family, but his eternal soul.

In 1964, Jaime Sonoro is Mexico’s most renowned actor and singer. But his comfortable life is disrupted when he discovers a book that purports to tell the entire history of his family beginning with Cain and Abel. In its ancient pages, Jaime learns about the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors. And when the same mysterious figure from Antonio’s timeline shows up in Mexico City, Jaime realizes that he may be the one who has to pay for his ancestors� crimes, unless he can discover the true story of his grandfather Antonio, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.

A family saga that’s epic in scope and magical in its blood, and based loosely on the author’s own great-grandfather, The Bullet Swallower tackles border politics, intergenerational trauma, and the legacies of racism and colonialism in a lush setting and stunning prose that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.]]> 272 Elizabeth Gonzalez James 1668009323 Diogo 0 currently-reading 3.75 2024 The Bullet Swallower
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]]> Deep Cuts 214269394
Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Is their collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice?

Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard.]]> 277 Holly Brickley 0593799089 Diogo 0 to-read 3.74 2025 Deep Cuts
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]]> The Left Hand of Darkness 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Diogo 0 to-read 4.11 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 13642
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]> 183 Ursula K. Le Guin Diogo 0 to-read 4.02 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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]]> Play It As It Lays 428 Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul - it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
]]> 231 Joan Didion 0374529949 Diogo 4 3.94 1970 Play It As It Lays
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rating: 4
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]]> The Twilight World 59576066 The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II

In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unraveling the story of Onoda's long war.

At the end of 1944, on Lubang Island in the Philippines, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer: Hold the island until the Imperial army's return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs. . . . There is only one rule. You are forbidden to die by your own hand. In the event of your capture by the enemy, you are to give them all the misleading information you can. So began Onoda's long campaign, during which he became fluent in the hidden language of the jungle. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades--until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.

In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onoda's years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic style--part documentary, part poem, and part dream--that will be instantly recognizable to fans of his films. The result is a novel completely unto itself, a sort of modern-day Robinson Crusoe tale: a glowing, dancing meditation on the purpose and meaning we give our lives.]]> 144 Werner Herzog 0593490266 Diogo 0 to-read 3.85 2021 The Twilight World
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]]> Stoner 166997
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]> 292 John Williams 1590171993 Diogo 0 to-read 4.36 1965 Stoner
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Diogo 0 to-read 4.08 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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]]> <![CDATA[Espelho Mágico: Uma História do Cinema]]> 217898484 628 Francisco Valente 9899071994 Diogo 0 currently-reading 4.00 Espelho Mágico: Uma História do Cinema
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]]> The White Album 421 The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.]]> 224 Joan Didion 0374532079 Diogo 5 4.06 1979 The White Album
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]]> From Here to Eternity 116114
First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife.

Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood... and, possibly, their death.

In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair... in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no other the honor and savagery of men.]]> 816 James Jones 0517223007 Diogo 0 to-read 4.08 1951 From Here to Eternity
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]]> <![CDATA[Briefing for a Descent Into Hell]]> 372392 278 Doris Lessing 1400077265 Diogo 0 to-read 3.80 1971 Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
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]]> The Golden Notebook 24100 640 Doris Lessing 006093140X Diogo 0 to-read 3.79 1962 The Golden Notebook
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Diogo 4
(Maria não me mates)]]> 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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(Maria não me mates)
]]> A Tale of Two Cities 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Diogo 0 to-read 3.86 1859 A Tale of Two Cities
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]]> Chilly Scenes of Winter 19610 288 Ann Beattie 0679732349 Diogo 0 to-read 3.94 1976 Chilly Scenes of Winter
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]]> Thinking, Fast and Slow 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 Diogo 0 to-read 4.17 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow
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]]> Nudes 36349767

Ten years after the exhibition The Air Is on Fire, which unveiled David Lynch’s photographic and painting work, comes the new photographic volume, David Lynch, Nudes, published by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.


Featuring more than one hundred black-and-white and color images, many of them published for the first time, of feminine nudes captured by the iconic artist, these erotically charged photographs are close to abstraction, offering kaleidoscopic visions of the woman and attesting to David Lynch’s fascination with the infinite variety of the human body while also reminiscent of his cinematographic work.]]> 125 David Lynch 2869251394 Diogo 0 to-read 4.08 Nudes
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)]]> 40605251 The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne.

“A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us.

As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famous victim.]]> 1009 Marion Zimmer Bradley Diogo 0 to-read 4.20 1982 The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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]]> As I Lay Dying 77013 As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.]]> 288 William Faulkner Diogo 0 to-read 3.71 1930 As I Lay Dying
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]]> Collected Poems 367802 The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking.

Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet’s work. Thomas wrote �Prologue� addressed to “my readers, the strangers� � an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write. Also included are classics such as �And Death Shall Have No Dominion,� �Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,� and �Fern Hill� that have influenced generations of artists from Bob Dylan (who changed his last name from Zimmerman in honor of the poet), to John Lennon (The Beatles included Thomas� portrait on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band); this collection even appears in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road when it is retrieved from the rubble of a bookshelf.]]> 203 Dylan Thomas 0811202054 Diogo 0 to-read 4.21 1952 Collected Poems
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]]> Why Read the Classics? 9814
Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys The Odyssey contains, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are a pinnacle of twentieth-century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino covers the classics he has loved most with essays that are fresh, accessible and wise. Why Read the Classics? firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction. ձ> 288 Italo Calvino 0679743499 Diogo 0 to-read 3.90 1991 Why Read the Classics?
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]]> <![CDATA[A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)]]> 50358538 A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.

Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road.

When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness.


The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity.

A Libertarian Walks into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.]]> 288 Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 1541788516 Diogo 0 to-read 3.79 2020 A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
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]]> Rejection 199635125
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.

In “The Feminist,� a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics� spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,� a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.]]> 272 Tony Tulathimutte 0063337878 Diogo 0 to-read 3.87 2024 Rejection
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of Totalitarianism]]> 396931 Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history

The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.]]> 527 Hannah Arendt Diogo 0 to-read 4.30 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism
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]]> <![CDATA[Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience]]> 562714 379 Gitta Sereny 0394710355 Diogo 0 to-read 4.27 1974 Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
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]]> <![CDATA[Stories of Your Life and Others]]> 223380 ]]> 281 Ted Chiang 0330426648 Diogo 0 to-read 4.28 2002 Stories of Your Life and Others
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]]> <![CDATA[Naked Lunch: The Restored Text]]> 7437 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted a significant influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs’s notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.]]> 289 William S. Burroughs 0802140181 Diogo 0 to-read 3.48 1959 Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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]]> Returning to Reims 17895842
After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind thirty years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes -- reflected by Eribon's own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front.

"Returning to Reims" is a remarkable book of sociological inquiry and critical theory, of interest to anyone concerned with the direction of leftist politics in the contemporary world, and to anyone who has ever experienced how sexual identity can clash with other parts of one's identity. A huge success in France since its initial publication in 2009, "Returning to Reims" received enthusiastic reviews in "Le Monde, Liberation, L'Express, Les Inrockuptibles," and elsewhere.]]> 256 Didier Eribon 1584351233 Diogo 0 to-read 4.31 2009 Returning to Reims
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]]> Waiting for Godot 17716 109 Samuel Beckett Diogo 0 to-read 3.85 1951 Waiting for Godot
author: Samuel Beckett
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]]> What Is Existentialism? 53491568 'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'

How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.

One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.]]> 128 Simone de Beauvoir 0241475236 Diogo 0 to-read 3.91 1944 What Is Existentialism?
author: Simone de Beauvoir
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]]> The Woman in the Dunes 9998 The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks.]]> 241 Kōbō Abe 0679733787 Diogo 0 to-read 3.89 1962 The Woman in the Dunes
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]]> The Black Tulip 7182 'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment... then to lose it, to lose it forever!'

Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret.

Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland.]]> 246 Alexandre Dumas 0140448926 Diogo 0 to-read 3.86 1850 The Black Tulip
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]]> <![CDATA[Catarina e a Beleza de Matar Fascistas]]> 211096409
O espectáculo criado a partir deste texto, com encenação também de Tiago Rodrigues, foi apresentado com grande sucesso de crítica e público em várias salas portuguesas e em vários países, merecendo o Prémio de Melhor Espectáculo Estrangeiro em França e Itália.

«E como é que começou tudo? Com a opiniãozinha. Explorando o medo e o preconceito. Mentindo. Manipulando. Criando a infra‑estrutura da impunidade. Os alicerces do edifício fascista. Agora vale tudo. Porquê? Porque nós permitimos que eles continuassem a falar, a falar, a falar. Que nojo. Há anos a ouvi‑los. Cada vez mais opiniões. Cada vez mais vozes fascistas. E nós a ouvi‑los. Uma náusea. Uma impotência. Uma vontade de matar. E queres tu que eu o deixe falar? Para fazer um dos seus discursos? As palavras são poderosas, Catarina. Devias saber isso. Os discursos que ele escreveu, agora são leis. Amanhã serão artigos da Constituição. E onde é que começou? Na opiniãozinha. A maldita opiniãozinha que ninguém teve a coragem de matar à nascença.»]]> 224 Tiago Rodrigues 9896718261 Diogo 4 4.5 4.59 Catarina e a Beleza de Matar Fascistas
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4.5
]]> The Fall 11991
The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. The Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert Camus, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described the novel as "perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood" of Camus' books.]]> 147 Albert Camus 0679720227 Diogo 0 to-read 4.07 1956 The Fall
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]]> The Myth of Sisyphus 91950 The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.]]> 192 Albert Camus 0141182008 Diogo 0 to-read 4.25 1942 The Myth of Sisyphus
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]]> Faith, Hope and Carnage 59851730
Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.]]> 294 Nick Cave 0374607370 Diogo 0 to-read 4.41 2022 Faith, Hope and Carnage
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]]> <![CDATA[Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas]]> 220918754
Sinopse curta: Este é um livro sobre a história das ideias políticas. Mais concretamente, sobre a história das ideias da extrema-direita na Europa ocidental do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial. A pergunta é: de onde vêm e como evoluem as correntes de extrema-direita que conhecemos hoje em dia?]]> 220 Fernando Rosas 989671889X Diogo 0 to-read 4.37 Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas
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]]> The Far Side Gallery 77281 The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

The Far Side Gallery is an anthology of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, which were printed from 1982�1984.]]> 192 Gary Larson 0836220625 Diogo 0 to-read 4.43 1982 The Far Side Gallery
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European]]> 12265773 The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe—its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the story of his life, and his relationships with the leading literary figures of the day, Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction.

This translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig's writing in arguably his most important work, completed shortly before his tragic death in 1942.]]> 480 Stefan Zweig 1906548676 Diogo 0 to-read 4.54 1942 The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
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average rating: 4.54
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]]> Patience 25652706 180 Daniel Clowes 1606999052 Diogo 0 to-read 3.88 2016 Patience
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]]> Ghost World 62953 Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realized young women.

Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this is a quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) about two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.

]]> 80 Daniel Clowes 1560974273 Diogo 0 to-read 3.83 1998 Ghost World
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 35031085 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847.

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]> 260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 Diogo 0 4.02 1818 Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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]]> The City & the City 4703581
Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.]]> 312 China Miéville 0345497511 Diogo 0 to-read 3.90 2009 The City & the City
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]]> The Long Walk 9014 370 Richard Bachman 0451196716 Diogo 0 to-read 4.11 1978 The Long Walk
author: Richard Bachman
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]]> <![CDATA[Dobra: Poesia Reunida 1983-2021]]> 59659602 Como consequência, a nova edição que agora se apresenta foi ampliada e passa a incluir toda a obra poética publicada da autora, até fevereiro de 2021.
Edição encadernada.]]> 1016 Adília Lopes 9723721783 Diogo 0 to-read 3.75 2007 Dobra: Poesia Reunida 1983-2021
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]]> Sometimes a Great Notion 529626 The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.]]> 628 Ken Kesey 0140045295 Diogo 0 to-read 4.26 1964 Sometimes a Great Notion
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]]> Paradise Lost 15997 Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.

Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.]]> 453 John Milton 0140424393 Diogo 0 to-read 3.83 1667 Paradise Lost
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]]> The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Diogo 4 4.12 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Não foi a leitura mais apropriada para as festividades natalícias
]]> <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Poems]]> 400412 Librarian Note: Also available as an Alternate Cover Edition.

“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust�

When The Waste Land was published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. Critics attacked the poem's "kaleidoscopic" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. The poem was even rumored to a hoax. Eventually, though, The Waste Land went on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century.

"In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."

In addition to the title poem, this selection includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Geronition," "Ash-Wednesday," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work.

Includes:
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Gerontion
- Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- The Waste Land:
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
V. What the Thunder Said
Notes on 'The Waste Land'
- Ash-Wednesday
-J ourney of the Magi
- Marina
- Landscapes:
I. New Hampshire
II. Virginia
III. USK
- Two Choruses from 'The Rock']]> 88 T.S. Eliot Diogo 0 to-read 4.24 1922 The Waste Land and Other Poems
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Diogo 4 3.86 2024 Intermezzo
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average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Women in 101 Objects]]> 182126946
“I adored this book!� –Olivia Colman

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.

With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women were perceived by others, how they perceived themselves, how they fought for freedom. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. These are artifacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it. With variety and nuance, Hirsch cracks open the fissures of what we think we know to illuminate a much richer What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? What does a mobile phone have to do with femicides? Or Kim Kardashian’s diamond ring with Elena Ferrante?

Wide-ranging, subversive, witty, and superbly researched, this is a book that upends all our assumptions about, and presentations of, the past, proving it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.]]> 432 Annabelle Hirsch 0593728750 Diogo 0 to-read 4.11 2022 A History of Women in 101 Objects
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]]> The Great Movies 23559
Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to that film with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm–or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing.

Ebert’s selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from the highest achievements in film art to justly beloved and wildly successful popular entertainments. Roger Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for our most important form of popular art with a scholar’s erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, the film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.

The Great Movies includes: All About Eve � Bonnie and Clyde � Casablanca � Citizen Kane � The Godfather � Jaws � La Dolce Vita � Metropolis � On the Waterfront � Psycho � The Seventh Seal � Sweet Smell of Success � Taxi Driver � The Third Man � The Wizard of Oz � and eighty-five more films.]]> 544 Roger Ebert 0767910389 Diogo 0 to-read 4.26 2002 The Great Movies
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]]> The King in Yellow 32277642 The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a masterful collection of short stories that will transport you to a realm of eerie mystery, madness, and supernatural horror, where the boundaries between reality and the unknown are blurred.

The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.

Stories:
- The Repairer of Reputations
- The Mask
- In the Court of the Dragon
- The Yellow Sign
- The Demoiselle D'ys
- The Prophets' Paradise
- The Street of the Four Winds
- The Street of the First Shell
- The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
- Rue Barree]]> 224 Robert W. Chambers 153905344X Diogo 0 to-read 3.58 1895 The King in Yellow
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]]> Chess Story 59151
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.

This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.]]> 104 Stefan Zweig 1590171691 Diogo 4 4.31 1942 Chess Story
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name: Diogo
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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]]> The Memory Police 37004370
When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.]]> 274 Yōko Ogawa 1101870605 Diogo 4
Adorei a escrita! Muito cozy, mas faltou algo para passar para o 4+]]> 3.72 1994 The Memory Police
author: Yōko Ogawa
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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3.75

Adorei a escrita! Muito cozy, mas faltou algo para passar para o 4+
]]> Severance 36348525
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale and satire.]]> 291 Ling Ma 0374261598 Diogo 0 to-read 3.90 2018 Severance
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name: Diogo
average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace]]> 6916961 Ჹ’s magazine in the �90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming.�

ճRolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader’s escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an “orgy of spectation�). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace’s dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things—everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him—in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him—that grateful, awake feeling—the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.

A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and—as he tells it—what it was like to become David Foster Wallace.

ձ> 320 David Lipsky 030759243X Diogo 0 to-read 3.93 2010 Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines]]> 34746655
Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men up front and getting it in the mixer; 4-4-2 was the order of the day. Few teams experimented tactically.

And then, almost overnight, it all changed. The creation of the Premier League coincided with one of the most seismic rule changes in football the abolition of the back-pass. Suddenly defenders had no-get-out-of-jail-free card, goalkeepers had to be able to field and play the ball and the pace of the game quickened immeasurably. Tactics evolved dramatically, helped by an increased foreign influence.

The Mixer is the first book to delve deep into the tactical story of the Premier League, and take a long view of how the game has developed over the last quarter century. From Ferguson’s directness to Keegan’s relentlessly attacking Newcastle outfit, to Mourinho’s cagey, reactive Chelsea, all the way to Ranieri’s counter-attacking champions, The Mixer is one of the most entertaining, rich and knowledgeable football books ever written.]]> 571 Michael Cox 0008215561 Diogo 5
A great book to read about the history of the Premier League (until around 2017). It's not as dense tactically as "Inverting the Pyramid", which I also recommend. It's really funny at times, and the small chapters allow short bursts of reading. It's not a 5 because I missed more details about Mourinho's second coming at Chelsea (but I'm biased), and I felt Arsenal's Invecibles deserved their own chapter (and not a "split" one like in the book). ]]> 4.38 2017 The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
author: Michael Cox
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average rating: 4.38
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rating: 5
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4.5

A great book to read about the history of the Premier League (until around 2017). It's not as dense tactically as "Inverting the Pyramid", which I also recommend. It's really funny at times, and the small chapters allow short bursts of reading. It's not a 5 because I missed more details about Mourinho's second coming at Chelsea (but I'm biased), and I felt Arsenal's Invecibles deserved their own chapter (and not a "split" one like in the book).
]]> Vertentes do Olhar 31209384 83 Eugénio de Andrade Diogo 0 3.69 1987 Vertentes do Olhar
author: Eugénio de Andrade
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.69
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]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas� epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here]]> 1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Diogo 0 to-read 4.29 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
author: Alexandre Dumas
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> Memória Doutro Rio 24001539 80 Eugénio de Andrade 9723717921 Diogo 0 4.02 1978 Memória Doutro Rio
author: Eugénio de Andrade
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Primeiros Poemas / As Mãos e Os Frutos / Os Amantes Sem Dinheiro]]> 16091075
«As Mãos e os Frutos» é publicado em 1948 tendo merecido críticas elogiosas de Vitorino Nemésio, Jorge de Sena e Eduardo Lourenço, entre outros. Dois anos mais tarde, Eugénio publica «Os Amantes sem Dinheiro», um livro notável e central na sua obra poética. Nas palavras de Gastão Cruz, no seu prefácio, «A poesia de Eugénio de Andrade criou, para dele falar, uma linguagem que é, simultaneamente, simples e espessa, eufórica e trágica, direta e metafórica. A sábia dosagem destes elementos afastou-a completamente dos perigos de uma aproximação excessiva do real prosaico e vulgar que tem inquinado tanta pretensa poesia, dita do quotidiano e "da experiência", e avessa à metáfora.»]]> 96 Eugénio de Andrade Diogo 0 to-read 4.34 1986 Primeiros Poemas / As Mãos e Os Frutos / Os Amantes Sem Dinheiro
author: Eugénio de Andrade
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1986
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]]> In Search of Lost Time 18796
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).]]> 4211 Marcel Proust 0812969642 Diogo 0 to-read 4.34 1913 In Search of Lost Time
author: Marcel Proust
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1913
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]]> <![CDATA[What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)]]> 58724626
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Diogo 0 to-read 3.86 2022 What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.86
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]]> The Anatomy of Fascism 188378 is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,� through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century European setting in which it emerged.

The Anatomy of Fascism will have a lasting impact on our understanding of modern European history, just as Paxton’s classic Vichy France redefined our vision of World War II. Based on a lifetime of research, this compelling and important book transforms our knowledge of fascism–“the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.�

]]> 336 Robert O. Paxton Diogo 0 to-read 4.21 2004 The Anatomy of Fascism
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]]> Human Acts 30091914 A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend, who meets his own fateful end, to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, both suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother, their collective heartbreak and acts of hope tell the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of a historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.]]> 218 Han Kang 1101906723 Diogo 0 to-read 4.26 2014 Human Acts
author: Han Kang
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing]]> 2141 146 Walter Murch 1879505622 Diogo 0 to-read 4.21 1995 In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
author: Walter Murch
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football]]> 43184201
From the intelligent use of space displayed by the phenomenal Ajax team of the early 90s, to the dominance of the highly strategic Italian league in the late 90s and onto the technical wizardry of Barcelona’s tiki-taka, the European game continues to reinvent the tactical dimension of the game, creating blueprints which both club and national teams around the world strive to follow.

In Zonal Marking, Michael Cox brilliantly investigates and analyses the major leagues around Europe over specific time periods and demonstrates the impact each has made on how the game is now played. Highly entertaining and packed full of wonderful anecdotes, this is the first book of its kind to take an overview of modern European football, and lays bare just how much the international language of football can be shaped by a nation’s unique identity.]]> 433 Michael Cox 0008291152 Diogo 0 to-read 4.36 2019 Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
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name: Diogo
average rating: 4.36
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]]> The Princess Bride 21787
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.]]> 429 William Goldman 0345418263 Diogo 0 to-read 4.27 1973 The Princess Bride
author: William Goldman
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[Panorama do Cinema Português (das origens à actualidade)]]> 16028488
Como retrato de um povo, de uma história, de um viver quotidiano, as imagens do cinema português reflectem muito pouco do que somos realmente. Como dizia alguém com certa amargura, diante do êxito dos filmes italianos do após-guerra, «o cinema português está a ser feito pelos italianos».]]> 168 Luís de Pina Diogo 4 3.75 1978 Panorama do Cinema Português (das origens à actualidade)
author: Luís de Pina
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1978
rating: 4
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Um bom livro para ter uma perspectiva do cinema em Portugal (até ao pós 25 de Abril). É perceptível que muitos dos problemas atuais são transversais aos da época e principalmente como o Estado Novo sufocou o avanço da arte.
]]> <![CDATA[Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation]]> 403846 Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.

"It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged"]]> 288 Silvia Federici 1570270597 Diogo 0 to-read 4.55 2004 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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average rating: 4.55
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West]]> 394535 Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.]]> 351 Cormac McCarthy Diogo 5
A forma como o Cormac descreve violência é muito interessante. Acaba por a tornar "bonita" de certa maneira.
É um livro mega violento e a meio começamos a ficar "numb" a esta violência constante e já esperada. Só não dou 5 porque há alturas em que parece repetitivo (e se calhar é propositadamente). O Judge é das personagens mais assustadoras que alguma vez li.]]> 4.18 1985 Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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4.5

A forma como o Cormac descreve violência é muito interessante. Acaba por a tornar "bonita" de certa maneira.
É um livro mega violento e a meio começamos a ficar "numb" a esta violência constante e já esperada. Só não dou 5 porque há alturas em que parece repetitivo (e se calhar é propositadamente). O Judge é das personagens mais assustadoras que alguma vez li.
]]> Sex and Rage 32332902
Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and spontaneous embrace of fate, work, and of certain meetings and chances. Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature―haunting, alluring, and alive.]]> 256 Eve Babitz 1619029359 Diogo 3 3.56 1979 Sex and Rage
author: Eve Babitz
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1979
rating: 3
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]]> Novas Cartas Portuguesas 9938267 Ana Luísa Amaral in «Breve Introdução»]]> 415 Maria Isabel Barreno 9722040111 Diogo 0 to-read 4.43 1972 Novas Cartas Portuguesas
author: Maria Isabel Barreno
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1972
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]]> Musashi 102030 970 Eiji Yoshikawa 4770019572 Diogo 0 to-read 4.47 1935 Musashi
author: Eiji Yoshikawa
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.47
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]]> Middlemarch 19089 "People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".]]> 912 George Eliot 0451529170 Diogo 0 to-read 4.00 1872 Middlemarch
author: George Eliot
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.00
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]]> Nausea 298275 Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.

His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."

Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.

The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.]]> 178 Jean-Paul Sartre 0811201880 Diogo 0 to-read 3.96 1938 Nausea
author: Jean-Paul Sartre
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)]]> 65336

It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art," Williams maintained, "it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.]]> 302 William Carlos Williams 081120958X Diogo 0 to-read 4.18 1963 Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
author: William Carlos Williams
name: Diogo
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1963
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]]> Bliss Montage: Stories 61867762 A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages

What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?

In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.]]> 240 Ling Ma Diogo 0 to-read 3.89 2022 Bliss Montage: Stories
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> Blue Sisters 195430687 Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.]]> 342 Coco Mellors 0593723767 Diogo 0 to-read 3.93 2024 Blue Sisters
author: Coco Mellors
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.93
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]]> The Green Ray 376984 126 Jules Verne 0809530740 Diogo 0 to-read 3.43 1882 The Green Ray
author: Jules Verne
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.43
book published: 1882
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 53285047 We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]> 305 Mona Awad 0525559752 Diogo 0 to-read 3.43 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.43
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]]> Wuthering Heights 6185 You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 464 Emily Brontë Diogo 0 to-read 3.89 1847 Wuthering Heights
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis]]> 32024785 496 José Saramago 9720048824 Diogo 0 to-read 3.91 1984 O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> War and Peace 656
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.


Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.]]> 1392 Leo Tolstoy 0192833987 Diogo 0 to-read 4.14 1869 War and Peace
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name: Diogo
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1869
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]]> The Promise 54633172 The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.]]> 293 Damon Galgut 1784744069 Diogo 0 to-read 3.81 2021 The Promise
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name: Diogo
average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[Esquerda e Direita: Guia Histórico Para o Século XXI]]> 25739364 O que são, afinal, a esquerda e a direita políticas? Trata‑se de conceitos estanques, flutuantes, ou relativos? Quando foi que começámos a usar estes termos para designar enquadramentos políticos?

Esquerda e direita: Guia histórico para o século XXI é um ensaio historiográfico, político e filosófico no qual Rui Tavares responde a estas questões e explica por que razão a terminologia «esquerda / direita» não só continua a ser relevante, como poderá fazer hoje mais sentido do que nunca. Os novos desafios da democracia perante as escalas europeia e global ditam a necessidade de reinventar a política.

Inspirado em dois diálogos com estudantes e escrito em tom coloquial, este guia histórico para o século XXI explica porque é possível outra soberania, e como construir o movimento para a conseguir.

]]> 112 Rui Tavares 9896712611 Diogo 4 3.84 2015 Esquerda e Direita: Guia Histórico Para o Século XXI
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Diogo 4 3.81 1993 The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Diogo
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Brevíssima História de Portugal]]> 38218250 A conceituada «História de Portugal» de A.H. de Oliveira Marques, numa versão abreviada, há décadas ausente das livrarias.
Edição simultânea em português, inglês e francês.

A história de Portugal é longa e complexa, e por isso o próprio de Oliveira Marques começou por fixá-la em três volumes que se tornaram um clássico da historiografia nacional. Mas foi também ele, um dos mais eminentes historiadores portugueses, a preparar a partir daí esta versão brevíssima, com todas as linhas essenciais concentradas em apenas 250 páginas, num pequeno formato raro, há muito esgotado.
Uma versão que conserva todo o rigor e alcance histórico das edições mais alargadas, privilegiando uma relação mais directa, clara e certeira com o leitor, útil tanto para estudiosos como para curiosos.]]> 248 A.H. de Oliveira Marques 9896714185 Diogo 0 currently-reading 3.45 Brevíssima História de Portugal
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]]> <![CDATA[I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning]]> 171732053 256 Keiran Goddard Diogo 0 to-read 3.93 2024 I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
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]]> Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 55922484
RICK DALTON � Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH � Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE � She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON � The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n� roll star.

HOLLYWOOD 1969 � YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE]]> 400 Quentin Tarantino 0063112523 Diogo 3
O final do filme é muiiito melhor, mas se gostarem de ler o Tarantino escrever sobre a sua época cinematográfica preferid recomendo. (E é bastante diferente do script do filme)]]> 3.86 2021 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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O final do filme é muiiito melhor, mas se gostarem de ler o Tarantino escrever sobre a sua época cinematográfica preferid recomendo. (E é bastante diferente do script do filme)
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«É preciso recomeçar a viagem. Sempre. O viajante volta já.»

«De Nordeste a Noroeste, caminhos que vão dar às "Meninas de Castro Laboreiro", à "História do soldado José Jorge" ou ao Monte Evereste de Lanhoso. Depois, as "Terras baixas, vizinhas do mar". Encontramos nelas "Um Castelo para Hamlet", e descobre-se que nem todas as ruínas são romanas. Viaja-se ainda pelas "brandas beiras de pedra", com as "novas tentações do demónio" e "o fantasma de José Júnior". Um convite, entretanto, a parar em todo o lado, entre Mondego e Sado, para observar "artes da água e do fogo" ou as chaminés e laranjais. E um passeio pela "grande e ardente terra de Alentejo". Aí, "a noite em que o mundo começou"; aí, "uma flor da rosa"; aí, onde "é proíbido destruir os ninhos". E mais o sol, o pão seco e o pão mole do Algarve, com "o português tal qual se fala". "Pelos caminhos de Portugal / Eu vi tantas coisas lindas vi o mundo sem igual", canta o cancioneiro popular, e assim faz Saramago, com a diferença essencial que a qualidade da sua escrita está bastantes furos acima. Uma viagem, se não pelo Portugal profundo, pelo menos por uma forma profunda de ver Portugal.» (Diário de Notícias, 9 de Outubro de 1998)]]> 533 José Saramago 9722100475 Diogo 0 to-read 3.57 1981 Viagem a Portugal
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Diogo 0 to-read 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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]]> Tess of the D’Urbervilles 32261 here and here.

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin� Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.]]> 518 Thomas Hardy Diogo 0 to-read 3.83 1891 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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]]> The Wild Palms 146559 If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.]]> 304 William Faulkner 0679741933 Diogo 0 to-read 3.89 1939 The Wild Palms
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