Methought - August/2025

Monthly wrap-up: read the best book of the year so far (and two others that were not so good), yet another Rowlands/Cassavetes film, my first Bergman…

Sep 17 • 

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August 2025

Um Homem Civilizado

Ficção Nº2

Aug 24 • 

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Methought - July/2025

Monthly wrap-up: falling in love with James Joyce again, new favourite french films, rereading Jane Austen, the difficulty of defining literature, and…

Aug 12 • 

Julia Sampaio

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July 2025

Favourite Books from a Very Critical Person - part 1

It's hard for me to consider a book a favourite. Let's discuss the ones that made the list

Jul 30 • 

Julia Sampaio

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2

Methought - June/2025

monthly wrap-up: first time watching Fellini at the movie theatre, rereading Shakespeare and Tolkien, Robert Walser and Henry Miller talking about art…

Jul 14 • 

Julia Sampaio

18

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June 2025

Victorian Literature - Reading Guide #2

How to start reading Victorian Literature: novels, poetry, annotation systems, critical reading syllabus, research material, etc.

Jun 18 • 

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Methought - May/2025

monthly wrap-up: rereading Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot, giving Forster a second chance, humanities crisis with Kristeva, revisiting Freud's Uncanny…

Jun 2 • 

Julia Sampaio

22

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May 2025

Indiscriminate and Erratic

An essay on writing diaries

May 19 • 

Julia Sampaio

25

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30 books before 30

I'm not turning 30 yet ok this is just a long-term plan calm down.

May 13 • 

Julia Sampaio

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Methought - April/2025

Monthly wrap-up: Hemingway's and Woolf's nostalgia, romanticism in poetry and vampires, Cassavetes' creative process, and sad indie men with acoustic…

May 6 • 

Julia Sampaio

11

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April 2025

Shakespeare's Plays - Reading Guide #1

everything you need to become an independent Shakespeare student

Apr 23 • 

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Methought - March/2025

Monthly wrap-up: rereading Dostoevsky, memory's power in Camus and Rohrwacher, 17th century women writers, Zweig's obssessive young men, and HAIM…

Apr 7 • 

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