enbygojira's Reviews (815)

Que livro triste, em primeiro lugar, mas ao mesmo tempo muito bonito — mérito da autora. A narrativa da Carolina Maria de Jesus é simplesmente incrível, e eu fico me perguntando o que ela teria feito se tivesse mais oportunidades na vida.

"Compreendo que o sonho de pobre é sonhar, apenas sonhar."

This is, I believe, a little taste of what Hogwarts: A History can be if Rowling ever bothers to write it. I love Hogwarts, and I love knowing more about how it was made and how some of its pieces work.

It's funny to me how Rowling tells us that she destroyed all the time-turners exactly to prevent people from doing what she is doing right now in The Cursed Child.

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This is, I believe, a little taste of what Hogwarts: A History can be if Rowling ever bothers to write it. I love Hogwarts, and I love knowing more about how it was made and how some of its pieces work.

It's funny to me how Rowling tells us that she destroyed all the time-turners exactly to prevent people from doing what she is doing right now in The Cursed Child.

I don't think Ian McEwan is for me.* See, I didn't dislike this novel; I just found it so hard to relate to—anything, really. The situation, the characters, the sex... I don't know. And, again, it's not that I disliked any of that, I just didn't care about it. I didn't feel anything when

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the fetus tried to kill himself

, I couldn't see myself caring if

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the characters were going to get caught or not

. Maybe that's not the point of the book, but what is it, then?

It has a great premise, and the prose is beautiful—it's obvious that McEwan is a talented writer—, but is it enough? I don't know.

*I happened to read one of his other books in 2015. Here's my (very short) review.