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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Me Poupe!: 10 passos para nunca mais faltar dinheiro no seu bolso - Nathalia Arcuri (2018)

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  Um livro que deveria ser leitura obrigatória para o ENEM!   O Brasil é um país de endividados, segundo a Faculdade de Economia, Administra...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Cockroach - Ian McEwan (2019)

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Brexit makes sense in here ------spoiler alert------ Before the pandemic, I had a weird habit: I used to get in book shops to check the li...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

A capital - Eça de Queiroz (1925)

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Life is cruel and we die in the end ------spoiler alert------ I am glad I can read this classic in its original language. I came ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Psycho - Robert Bloch (1959)

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A psychological thriller ------spoiler alert------     The path I did until this book was quite unusual. I never watched the Hit...
Friday, August 10, 2018

King Solomon's ring - Konrad Lorentz (1952)

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  Seeing nature through Lorentz eyes ------spoiler alert------ Working in the place co-funded by Lorentz gave the motivation for t...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)

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Hilarious! ------spoiler alert------ I came across this book twice in my life, but just read in the second and I regret that I ...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer (2009)

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  Another vegetarian cry against factory farms ------spoiler alert------ I believed in the promise of a unbias survey about ea...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1931)

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WTF ------spoiler alert------ Reading this book was just like watching one episode of "Black Mirror": I could hear the ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell (2013)

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Stupid kids in love A friend offered the book to me with a warning about the silly content. I tried anyway and now I regret for such ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The Game (Victor the Assassin #3) - Tom Wood (2013)

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Bloody I found this book digging for something in English in a box with books "zu verschenken" left by a good soul on the str...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Das geheimnisvolle Spukhaus (Ich schenk dir eine Geschichte #21) - Henriette Wich (2017)

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Yes, I read a book for kids and I am writing about it! I am really proud anyhow because it was the first book completely in German I wa...
Friday, March 17, 2017

The circle - Dave Eggers (2013)

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A slow story with easy characters ------spoiler alert------ The circle is a book about an extreme future when privacy will no lo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

A história do Brasil para quem tem pressa - Marcos Costa (2015)

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O título já anuncia a brevidade da coisa, breve sim, mas não superficial. É curto e grosso! Estudamos a história do Brasil de forma ...
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