Latest Posts by jales - Page 2
started 'água viva' today. my first clarice! her writing is wow, i've been annotating a lot. so many thoughts already. just wild!
i was gonna go for run today, but gave up, it's been one of those lazy days. probably do some yoga before go to bed.
tomorrow i feel like it's gonna be a good day. (probably won't though) - let's keep it positive.
that's a goal: be more positive! 🤍🌧
1am, i'm reading 'hiperculturalidade', and it's so good. probably, i'll be finishing it on thursday or friday.
also, i read today 'blue horses' by mary oliver and liked it. wasn't too invested tho, but it's great.
and in the morning, i was able to read a lot of 'the idiot' by elif batuman. this book is making me so happy! her writing is amazing and just to be in selin's mind is fascinating.
be kind to yourselves 🤍🌧
continuing this one today! i'm still on 10% but really enjoying it. it's funny and brings some good questions to think about.
other than that, i apply for next semester's classes. hope i'll be accepted at all of them.
i'm trying to think more about the projects i'd like to work on.
i hope it rains today. 🌧
Hi!!
I bought 4 books recently, 2 of them arrived today:
• o mito de sísifo - camus;
• exílios e poemas - james joyce.
As you know, I already read the myth of sysifus, but it was on kindle and i wanted to have the physical one. And the Joyce's, I never even had heard about it, but found it online and it sounds interesting.
Be kind to yourselves, fellas! 🤍🌧
"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more..."
from Lyrical and Critical essays by Albert Camus
i received these three clarice lispector books today! i'm so happy and ready to read her works. i already had other three.
pretty amazing, isn't it? the covers are crazy. i'm gonna start with the second one, água viva - my friend told me so.
apart from that, the days have been a little bit harder, and i can't wait for traveling. i need to get away.
but back to the books: i think i'm gonna really start a booktube. for that, i need to get over my shyness. i might not do it, i always leave projects halfway or 'noneway'.
hope everyone is having an amazing day. take care. 🤍🌧
I was so happy the november depression didn’t hit me at all this year
and then
the end of december comes around and brings the trinity of doom: melancholy, anxiety and existential dread
oieee! i had to go to college to return some books because my classes are finished (thank god) and i'm officially on vacation.
i'm still reading 'a peste' by camus. it's good but i was too busy getting crazy with the finals.
next book i'm gonna read is another byung-chul han (i know, i'm a stan) - 'hiperculturalidade'.
hope everything is good with you all. 🤍🌧
Albert Camus
i'm still on lolita, damn this book is hard to read. every page i literally have a discomfort on the way he speaks about lolita. it's so sickening! but the writing is so good, i don't even know what to say. *Fiodora thinks so too!
on the other hand i'm gonna start 'pop song' and 'a peste' today! it's gonna be i guess my forth or fifth camus. i love him sm. also, i need to finish it soon cause my uni library doesn't accept us to keep the books on vacation and semester is ending. soooo... 🤸🏻♀️
it's nice day today, very cloudy. i love it, it puts me in a great mood! 🤍🌧
i wish albert camus had a merch
📖 reading week (11/12 - 17/12)
currently reading
lolita - nabokov (pg. 56/ 331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
the way of kings - brandon sanderson (530/1252)
estado de sítio - camus (42/149)
to be read
cult classic - sloane crosley
i love you but i've chosen darkness - claire vaye watkings
dream work - mary oliver
read (11/12-17/12)
in the dream house - carmen maria machado
camus was so gorgeous, wasn't him? and had such a strong personality. innocent tho, an idealistic. you can easily fall in love with him just by reading about his history.
(yes, it's one of my inspirations if you couldn't tell already!) 🤍🌧
i've stopped writing again, which is not a good thing for my mind tbh. my readings are slow and i'm a bit unfocused. hope i get better soon because vacations are almost there and i need to read as much as i can. but i feel like olivia (my dead rose).
i restarted lolita, i had abandoned it and postponed to get back to it, but now i feel like i can do it. maybe. i'll try.
if you who's reading this are ok and having the time of your life.
the sky was so beautiful today and i got my two partners to watch it with me!
be good, fellas! 🌧🤍
📖 reading week (04/11 - 10/12)
currently reading
lolita - nabokov (pg. 40/ 331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
the way of kings - brandon sanderson (460/1252)
estado de sítio - camus
to be read
a peste - camus
in the dream house - carmen maria machado
read (27/11-03/12)
infocracia - byung-chul han
o mito de sísifo - camus
kibogo - scholastique mukasonga
farsa da boa preguiça - ariano suassuna
When Albert Camus wrote "somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody."
finished 'infocracia' and byung-chul han is really amazing. since i was at my first graduation, he's been a great deal in my way of seeing things. i'm really glad my adviser told me start reading han.
have you all a great week. 🌧🤍
📖 reading week (27/11 - 03/12)
currently reading
o mito de sísifo - camus (75%)
infocracia - byung-chul han (pg. 62/107)
lolita - nabokov (pg. 25/ 331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
the way of kings - brandon sanderson (428/1252)
kibogo- scholastique mukasonga (starting)
to be read
a peste - camus
sea of tranquility - emily st john mandel
read (20/11-26/11)
chouette - claire oshtsky
the right to sex - amia srinivasan
tell me i'm an artist - chelsea martin
read 'infocracia' with wine yesterday night and finished 'the right to sex' tonight which was good but not great. my plans are to read a bit more of 'lolita' or 'crime e castigo' tomorrow and find a better mindset, cause honestly i've not been feeling good lately.
hope everyone is having a good time in life. 🤍🌧
I'm an orbit, a black hole Traveling through merits Collect all the meteors you can Bring me the stars, the moon Crave for the notes to play Crave for the credits to appear For my name to appear How hard will it be, as if I were only a math algorithm Find me out [hostil as it can be Listen to light speed on notes Nobody will ever need me more than the smell of air in my lungs, when it all ends. Hope it takes longer [than I expect Care of myself take me away like a stoic, the present is never be obstacle, only the infinite that holds me [like a daughter Love me, Universe take my words, e bring me chances so, I can hope to find you [within me. Jales
i've been feeling down today and it's been too hot lately. i tried to read a bit more of 'infocracia' with willow as a friend support, but i had to rewrite an essay for one of my classes. unfortunately, i didn't do that either. i just existed and that was it.
finished chouette tho, and i loved it. i'm very much into magical realism. the writing was definitely an experience!
and i decided to treat myself with a skincare night, maybe i'll try to finally watch aftersun. or just read a bit more. 🤍🌧
letterboxd: stormingjales
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aoty: burntheborder
📖 reading week (20/11 - 26/11)
currently reading (finish or almost)
o mito de sísifo - camus (45%)
lolita - nabokov (pg. 25/331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
infocracia - byung-chul han (pg. 19/107)
chouette - claire oshtsky (starting rn)
to be read (or just to begin)
the right to sex - amia srinivasan
kibogo - scholastique mukasonga
a peste - camus