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M. J.
M. J. is on page 83 of 224 of Orlando
Aug 04, 2026 09:30PM Add a comment
Orlando

M. J.
M. J. is on page 76 of 224 of Orlando
Aug 03, 2026 08:48PM Add a comment
Orlando

M. J.
M. J. is on page 266 of 302 of O Processo
Ugh, I feel sick, what a depressing closure, another one to my pile of "I had few pleasurable moments reading this, but I can't deny its brilliance" books – I feel a certain kinship to Kafka, although his cynical world building and psychosexual logic makes me nauseous. His portrayal of women varies from silly to creepy (not necessarily bad), but otherwise I get all the systemic hopelessness, I really do.
Aug 01, 2026 01:14PM Add a comment
O Processo

M. J.
M. J. is on page 250 of 302 of O Processo
«O texto é imutável, e as opiniões muitas vezes são apenas a expressão do desespero acerca disso»

🫪🤯😖
Aug 01, 2026 12:04PM Add a comment
O Processo

M. J.
M. J. is 80% done with Down Below
Left the introduction for last (as I usually do with books by writers I'm already familiar with). A bizarre and luminous little book, damn Leonora, what a wild person.
Jul 31, 2026 01:21PM Add a comment
Down Below

M. J.
M. J. is on page 37 of 160 of Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
Boring interpretations of Leonora's art, I much prefer to read about her life and her own words on things (most of the book), reading this tired take of her first self-portrait, only reminds me of Leonora herself saying: "You're trying to intellectualize something desperately, and you're wasting your time". This is still a good book.
Jul 31, 2026 01:18PM Add a comment
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

M. J.
M. J. is 10% done with Down Below
Barely finding the time to read something other than genetic papers, but my current obsession with Leonora must go on, this one is serious, dark, and yet just as imaginative and beautiful as her other works.
Jul 29, 2026 10:28AM Add a comment
Down Below

M. J.
M. J. is on page 12 of 160 of Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
«Do you think anyone escapes their childhood? I don't think we do»

She's slowly becoming one of my favorite artists.
Jul 25, 2026 11:05AM Add a comment
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

M. J.
M. J. is on page 177 of 302 of O Processo
O capítulo do espancador entrou para o meu cânone pessoal, perturbador e engraçado, o capítulo do advogado parece um conto de horror – lindo. Mas o monólogo do advogado me causou cansaço metatextual, que não diz respeito ao texto em si, mas como ele é percebido, parece ter sido feito sob medida para retratar burocracia, aposto que é lido e relido em faculdades de direito que o acham genial – e essa ideia me cansou.
Jul 22, 2026 10:25AM 1 comment
O Processo

M. J.
M. J. is 10% done with A Corneta
Let's go grandma!
Jul 18, 2026 09:35PM Add a comment
A Corneta

M. J.
M. J. is 58% done with Gelo (Portuguese Edition)
«Enquanto estava em curso, nada além do pesadelo parecia real, como se o outro mundo perdido tivesse sido imaginado ou sonhado. Agora aquele mundo, não mais perdido, era a única realidade sólida»

Mais uma sugestão da natureza mutável daquilo que é narrado, o terreno nunca é sólido, a realidade sempre transiente.
Jul 17, 2026 05:14PM Add a comment
Gelo (Portuguese Edition)

M. J.
M. J. is on page 66 of 302 of O Processo
Finalmente Kafka tá funcionando comigo, depois de várias tentativas a expectativa de ler os Diários, que chegam semana que vem, me motivou a ler seus romances de novo e acredito que dessa vez tenho, como leitor e ser social, mais bagagem para entender a verve surreal e o peso bruto das contradições desses livros, até o senso de humor grotesco tem me feito rir...
Jul 17, 2026 01:26PM Add a comment
O Processo

M. J.
M. J. is 52% done with Gelo (Portuguese Edition)
Although I get what Kavan is doing and I certainly admire her choices, particularly in the implied critique of science fiction sexism, this is still a tiresome read
Jul 16, 2026 01:56PM Add a comment
Gelo (Portuguese Edition)

M. J.
M. J. is 50% done with Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
Reading this has been such a hit or miss journey, the evolutionary biology arguments are seriously weak, some of the social arguments are deterministic and, to be fair, deeply flawed if you're familiarized with anthropology. Still, some parts present solid arguments and the data researched can be insightful. I mostly agree with the author's conclusions, just not always with her rationale.
Jul 13, 2026 07:16AM Add a comment
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

M. J.
M. J. is 38% done with Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
To see life as a gift is to accept that one is born owing a debt.
Jul 12, 2026 08:00PM Add a comment
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

M. J.
M. J. is 35% done with Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
Trying not to let the gender essentialism and the use of "evolutionary psychology" – one of the lamest spawns of Evolution theory along with social darwinism, to get in the way of the actual interesting ideas of this book, having a hard time, but I persist.
Jun 29, 2026 03:55PM Add a comment
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

M. J.
M. J. is 30% done with Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
«Art requires obstruction; pure, limitless freedom is the death of art. An aesthetic is necessary for the creation and experience of art. This aesthetic need not be explicit or articulable, and frequently includes inarticulable elements. But even purely legible rule sets can create much of the aesthetic context that art needs in order to be meaningful»

This book is fascinating...
Jun 29, 2026 09:22AM Add a comment
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

M. J.
M. J. is on page 143 of 824 of Os Diários de Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962
My classes are back, so my time for reading greatly diminished, took a break to get back to SP's journals and although the events are repetitive there's some comfort in the monotony, plus the eventual insights into her work. She just used the "bell jar metaphor" for the first time in a 1952 entry, 11 years before the publication of the book.
Jun 27, 2026 12:28PM Add a comment
Os Diários de Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962

M. J.
M. J. is 4% done with Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
I used to think that this cover was ugly, and I still do, but now that I've learned better, I think it's charming that a book about the ethics of suicide, among other things, has a cover painted by Jack Kevorkian
Jun 24, 2026 12:57PM 1 comment
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

M. J.
M. J. is 31% done with O fim de Eddy (Portuguese Edition)
Eu precisei de anos para entender que o discurso dela não era incoerente ou contraditório, mas que eu (...) tentava impor a ela outra coerência, mais compatível com meus valores — aqueles que eu adquirira precisamente me construindo contra meus pais, contra minha família —, que as incoerências existem apenas para quem é incapaz de reconstruir as lógicas que produzem os discursos e as práticas.
Jun 22, 2026 10:03PM Add a comment
O fim de Eddy (Portuguese Edition)

M. J.
M. J. is on page 126 of 824 of Os Diários de Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962
«Haverá tempo, ela diz, sabendo de algum jeito que no seu início está o seu fim e que as sementes da destruição talvez dormentes agora podem ainda hoje começar a germinar malignas dentro de si»

Essa frase da Sylvia me marcou não por considerá-la premonitória – detesto quando se reduz o legado de artistas suicidas às suas mortes – mas por demonstrar tão bem uma coexistência de esperança e aniquilação.
Jun 20, 2026 10:32PM Add a comment
Os Diários de Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962

M. J.
M. J. is 33% done with O ano do pensamento mágico
Started listening to this one as I was cooking for my boyfriend and I, it's heartbreaking and unexpectedly informative, yeah Joan was a intellectual it girl with privileges, but her heartfelt, yet sparing prose reveals artistry and intelligence. It also makes me so scared of losing loved ones, it's so hard to find them, how can you go on without them?
Jun 20, 2026 02:13PM Add a comment
O ano do pensamento mágico

M. J.
M. J. is 11% done with Perto do Coração Selvagem
Eu não sei como, mas ler Clarice é como olhar um espelho ao mesmo tempo exato e distorcido. Essa pessoa que já estava morta décadas antes de eu nascer sabendo tanto de coisas que eu nunca falei, chega a ser meio perturbador... Me sentindo aquela moça de 17 anos, que ela menciona na entrevista de '77. Doideira como é a literatura.
Jun 18, 2026 10:45AM 3 comments
Perto do Coração Selvagem

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