reading challenge

  • 2024




      Soif
      by Amélie Nothomb

      "Eis o impulso místico. Não é uma metáfora. Quando a fome cessa, isso se chama saciedade. Quando cessa o cansaço, isso se chama repouso. Quando se cessa de sofrer, isso se chama reconforto. Cessar de ter sede não tem nome."

         

      Everyone in this room will someday be dead
      by Emily R. Austin

      "[I] recognized that I would blaze through moments for the rest of my life, forgetting things, and becoming ages older, until I forgot everything—so I consoled myself by committing to remember that one moment."


      Corpo desfeito
      by Jarid Arraes

      "Pela segunda vez, mainha perdia a vida na data do meu nascimento."

      1/2


      The haunting of Hill House
      by Shirley Jackson

      "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."




      Los peligros de fumar en la cama
      by Mariana Enriquez

      "Minha avó não gostava de chuva e antes que as primeiras gotas caíssem, quando o céu escurecia, ela ia para o quintal com garrafas e as enterrava até a metade, a boca inteira debaixo da terra."




      O Alieanista
      by Machado de Assis

      "As crônicas da vila de Itaguaí dizem que em tempos remotos vivera alí um certo médico, o Dr. Simão Bacamarte."

      1/2


      Lolita
      by Vladimir Nabokov

      "Lolita, light of my life, fire in my loins."




      The Metamorphoses
      by Franz Kafka

      "Quando Gregor Samsa, certa manhã, despertou de sonhos intranquilos, encontrou-se em sua cama metamorfoseado em um inseto monstruoso"




      Authority (souther reach #2)
      by Jeff Vandermeer

      "O Comando Sul tinha se tornado uma agência atrasada, isolada, a guardiã de um segredo adormecido com o qual ninguém parecia mais se importar, uma vez que o foco estava em terrorismo e colapso ecológico."

      1/2


      A natureza da mordida
      by Carla Madeira

      "As pessoas dizem totalmente: esqueça! Sem se darem conta de que é o esquecimento que nos acolhe. Conte novamente sua história, quem sabe encontramos uma maneira de viver com ela."



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      17776: What football will look like in the future
      by Jon Bois

      "Because i'm kinda like you, i kinda look at the big long life ahead of me that stretches out forever and disappears. And i get scared. And i think, 'this can't be Heaven if i'm getting scared, right?'
      And then i think, 'maybe i am in Heaven, and Heaven is scary"

      1/2


      The Wind-Up Bird chronicle
      by Haruki Murakami

      "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everyone else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells and shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up."




      A Certain Hunger
      by Chelsea G. Summers

      "They all look the same, hotel bars, even when they don't."




      We have always lived in the castle
      by Shirley Jackson

      "Meu nome é Mary Katherine Blackwood. Tenho dezoito anos e moro com a minha irmã Constance. Volto e meia penso que se tivesse sorte teria nascido lobisomem, porque os dois dedos médios da minha mão são do mesmo tamanho, mas tenho de me contentar com o que tenho."




      Bear
      by Marian Engel

      "'Bear', she would say to him, tempting him, 'I am only a human woman. Tear my thin skin with your clattering claws. I am frail. It is simple for you. Claw out my heart, a grub under a stump/ Tear off my head, my bear.'"



      Chlorine
      by Jade Song

      "You are not here of your own free will. You are here because i desired you first. I lured you to me using my intentional charms: my ethereal beauty, my siren song, my tail with scales embroidered in flesh."

      1/2


      Este es el mar
      by Mariana Enriquez

      "te llevaría a la desaparición. No duraría. Él no te quiere. Si te quisiera, ya no tendrías vida. Durarías menos que un instante."




      The Lottery
      by Shirley Jackson

      "'All right, folks.' Mr. Summers said. 'Let's finish quickly.'"




      Em carne viva
      by Joyce Carol Oats




      The Pisces
      by Melissa Broder

      "Was this all it took to be cleansed: one beautiful person to treat you kindly and gently, and you were exonerated?"


    • 2025
        1/2


        I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
        by Madeline Pendleton

        "1. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. 2. If you want to survive, remember to secure your own oxygen mask before securing the oxygen masks of others. 3. Whatever you do, though, don’t forget about the others."




        Os Fantasmas Entre Nós
        by Gih Alves

        "A morte de um aluno da Universidade Agnes Dantas não era novidade, e os professores faziam questão de lembrar isso sempre que podiam."

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