MEDITAÇÃO
I
És a única árvore no mundo
que recusa crescer em direção à luz.
Em vez disso enterras-te
com raízes cada vez mais profundas,
camada de terra após camada,
tempo passado, rumo ao calor
e calculas já estar a meio caminho.
Depressa deixas de sentir as toupeiras,
minhocas ou raízes de outros seres,
tetra-cego das cavernas
na sua noite infinita.
O frio é cada vez maior.
Não sabes se consegues crescer
a distância necessária
para encontrares o magma.
Estás só, mas a caminho.
II
Alguém te sopra
como se fosses dente-de-leão.
Nua, flutuas no escuro
e não sabes o que é escuridão
ou luz, ou tu, ou existência.
E no entanto as sementes
dançam à tua volta,
filamentos a caminho do nada.
Talvez um caia em terra fofa.
A probabilidade de germinar
é extraordinariamente pequena,
mas tudo flutua.
Tudo junto és tu.
_ Ingmar Heytze, do livro "Respirar sob a lua", 2011.
0 notes
Book Challenge 2020 (100 books!!) (I did it!!)
After forgetting to track my reading for three years, I started recording my reading on Tumblr last year again, and I’m committed to continuing that this year!
This year is my final year of my Bachelor’s Degrees (I’m finishing English in June) and I’m planning to do a gap year from September on, so now more university after June (at least as far as 2020 is concerned).
I do not really foresee any issues or obstacles to reading this year, except of course finishing my thesis which will probably take quite some time, so I do expect a decline around April until early June. Although I do have a lot more time off in my gap year, I used to read a lot of mandatory books for my studies, so I don’t know whether having a gap year will mean reading more books. Since I’m not doing any university studying, I am interested in reading academic books by myself, studying by myself. Those books are often longer, denser and just take more time to get through; consequently, I might read fewer books in the same amount of energy and time spent reading.
To make a (somewhat) long story short: my expectations are in line with the amount of books I’ve read in the last years, so I’m expecting to read 75 books this year!
Update: it’s mid-October and I’ve already read 99 books this year, so I’ve finished my original goal of 75 books! Now I’m going for 100 books (which should be easy to do, and after that we’ll just see how it goes!).
The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading,
I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them, with the (x) being a link to my Goodreads review!
Update: Today (November 23) I’ve read 114 books so I’ve finished my challenge of 100 books! Right now, I’m still 25 books ahead schedule! Let’s see if I can keep that energy up!
January
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (5/5) (x)
Serpent and Dove (Serpent and Dove #1) - Shelby Mahurin (4/5) (x)
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) - Robert Galbraith (4/5)
Weirdos from Another Planet (Calvin and Hobbes #4) - Bill Watterson) (5/5)
Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (5/5) (x)
Niets zal ons redden maar een beetje liefde is oké - Henk van Straten (Dutch) (4/5) (x)
, said the shotgun to the head. - Saul Williams (4/5)
Loud and Yellow Laughter - Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese (3/5)
Fireborn (The Aurelian Cycle #1) - Rosaria Munda (4/5)
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy - Sylvia Plath (4/5) (x)
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare (3/5) (x)
Nieuwe Herinneringen - Remco Campert (Dutch) (2/5)
Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (3/5)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5)
Alles wat er was - Stine Jensen (Dutch) (3/5)
Zij in de geschiedenis - Alies Pegtel (Dutch) (4/5) (x)
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread) (5/5)
February
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (3/5)
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (4/5)
The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Educated - Tara Westover (3/5)
Prometheus on Caucasus - Lucian of Samosata (3/5)
March
Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader - Robert Hasenfratz (4/5) (x)
Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? - Billy Crystal (3/5)
The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Quick Question: New Poems - John Ashberry (1/5) (x)
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose - Michael H. Short (3/5) (x)
The Call of the Wild - Jack London (2/5) (x)
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
April
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (reread) (5/5)
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou (4/5)
Poëzie in Utrechtse Muren - Ingmar Heytze (Dutch) (5/5) (x)
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (4/5)
Mijn dood en ik - Remco Campert (4/5)
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis (3/5)
Native Son - Richard Wright (2/5)
Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (reread) (4/5)
May
The Plague - Albert Camus (4/5)
Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner (4/5)
Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance - Carrie J. Preston (2/5)
James Joyce and Sexuality - Richard Brown (3/5)
June
Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5) (x)
Modernism, Sex and Gender - Alison Pease and Celia Marshik (3/5)
The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone - Seamus Heaney (4/5)
The Host - Stephanie Meyer (reread) (4/5)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5) (x)
A Terrible Beauty is Born - W.B. Yeats (4/5)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (4/5)
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis (4/5)
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) - Brandon Sanderson (4/5)
Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour (2/5) (x)
The Tempest - William Shakespeare (reread) (3/5)
July
Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood (4/5) (x)
American Slavery (A Very Short Introduction) - Andrea Heather William (reread) (3/5)
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdom #1) - Dan Brown (4/5) (x)
Mythos: A Retelling of Myths of Ancient Greece - Stephen Fry (4/5) (x)
Mean Time - Carol Ann Duffy (3/5)
Lijfrente - Vrouwkje Tuinman (Dutch) (4/5)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) - Suzanne Collins (3/5) (x)
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (3/5)
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (reread) (5/5)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (4/5)
Onbreekbaar - Hans Hagen (Dutch) (1/5) (x)
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwoord (reread) (4/5)
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde (5/5)
Het goede leven: een briefwisseling - Piet Gerbrandy & Andreas Kinneging (Dutch) (2/5) (x)
Constructions of the Classical Body - James Porter (3/5)
August
The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton (4/5)
The Kissing Booth (The Kissing Booth #1) - Beth Reekles (2/5) (x)
The Daily Show: The Book - Chris Smith (4/5) (x)
The Duchess Deal (Girl meets Duke #1) - Tessa Dare (3/5)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehesi Coates (4/5)
Fragments - Heraclitus (transl. by Brooks Haxton) (2/5) (x)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (reread) (5/5)
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) - Mackenzi Lee (reread) (4/5)
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (4/5)
Catilina’s Riddle (Roma sub Rosa #3) - Steven Saylor (2/5) (x)
When Dimple met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi #1) - Sandhya Memon (1/5) (x)
Adulthood is a Myth (Sarah’s Scribbles #1) - Sarah Andersen (4/5)
September
Normal People - Sally Rooney (3/5) (x)
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age - Donna Zuckerberg (4/5)
Sadie: A Novel - Courtney Summers (4/5)
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (4/5)
Vloedlijnen - Piet Gerbrandy (Dutch) (4/5)
Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (reread) (4/5)
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (4/5)
Envelope Poems - Emily Dickinson (4/5) (x)
A Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10) - Agatha Christie (3/5) (x)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (4/5)
October
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare (4/5) (x)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)
Het verhaal van Aeneas - Vergilius (trans. to Dutch) (reread) (4/5)
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (2/5)
Lesbia, Verzen van Liefde en Spot - Catullus (Dutch) (transl. by Paul Claes) (4/5) (x)
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (4/5) (x)
The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (reread) (5/5)
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) - Agatha Christie (3/5)
November
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (3/5) (x)
Narratology and Classics: a Practical Guide - Irene de Jong (3/5) (x)
The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)
The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #11) - Agatha Christie (4/5)
The Great Cat (Poetry Collection) - ed. by Emily Fragos (3/5) (x)
Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil (4/5)
The Northern Lights (His Dark Materials #1) - Philip Pullman (4/5)
Vincent van Gogh en zijn brieven - Leo Jansen (Dutch) (3/5)
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell (4/5)
The Fill-In Boyfriend - Kasie West (reread) (4/5)
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) - Agatha Christie (1/5)
My 2019 challenge
My 2016 challenge
My 2015 challenge
My 2014 challenge
My 2013 challenge
13 notes
·
View notes