literature

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 •

Victorian Literature - Reading Guide #2

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

Jun 18 •

30 books before 30

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

May 13 •

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

a few thoughts on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innoncence

Jan 30 •

A Year in Books - 2024

Notes on my favourite books of the year (and a few books I want to read in 2025)

Jan 15 •

A Clear Phantasmagoria

On H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)'s poetry

Dec 3, 2024 •

Às Margens do Liffey

Sobre linguagem, interpretação, e Dubliners de James Joyce

Oct 19, 2024 •

I am half sick of shadows

something that has been on my mind after rereading Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott".

Sep 1, 2024 •

Shakespeare's Richards: Interpreting Prophecies, Myths and History

Impressions about Richard II and Richard III

Jun 27, 2024 •

O Mestre e Margarida: às Portas da Percepção

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things…

May 16, 2024 •

The Gospel According to Steinbeck

Reflections on freedom, desire, autonomy, and character inspired by John Steinbeck's East of Eden

Mar 25, 2024 •

On Finding Patterns

A collection of narrative coincidences

Feb 19, 2024 •

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