2026 Backlog of Stuff
books
wants to read Graça Infinita
Conversando com amigo sobre este livro e, ao ler a sinopse novamente, se mostra bem atual:
"Os Estados Unidos e o Canadá já não existem: eles foram substituídos pela poderosa Onan, a Organização de Nações Norte-Americanas. Uma enorme porção do continente se tornou um depósito de lixo tóxico. Separatistas quebequenses praticam atos terroristas e a contagem dos anos foi vendida às grandes corporações. Graça infinita foi o último grande romance do século XX e teve um impacto duradouro e ainda difícil de ser aferido. Ora cômico, ora doloroso, ele encapsulou uma geração ligada à ironia e ao entretenimento, mas desconectada da imaginação, da solidariedade e da empatia. No romance, seguimos os passos dos irmãos Incandenza - membros da família mais disfuncional da literatura contemporânea -, conforme tentam dar conta do legado do patriarca James Incandenza, um cientista de óptica que se tornou cineasta e cometeu suicídio depois de produzir um misterioso filme que, pela alta voltagem de entretenimento, levava seus espectadores à morte. Enquanto organizações governamentais e terroristas querem usar o filme como arma de guerra, os Incandenza vão se embrenhar numa cômica e filosófica busca pelo sentido da vida. Graça infinita dobra todas as regras da ficção sem jamais sacrificar seu próprio valor de entretenimento. É uma exuberante e original investigação do que nos torna humanos - e um desses raros livros que renovam a ideia do que um romance pode ser."
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Há anos, quero ler este, mas é uma obra de fôlego (1.144 páginas) e bem caro. E não sei se é viável na edição em e-book, pois já ouvi reclamações sobre erros nas Notas (existem notas gigantescas e até notas dentro de notas...).
Antes, devo ler um texto indicado aqui no Fediverso e disponível gratuitamente na Revista Piauí (a não ser que tenham metido um paywall), "Pense na Lagosta":
https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/pense-na-lagosta/
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#OTD in 1836.
Honoré de Balzac's novel La Vieille Fille begins a 12-day serialization in the newly established Paris newspaper La Presse, as the first novel serialized in the French press.
This book was republished in 1839 by éditions Charpentier, before being published alongside le Cabinet des Antiques in the isolated les Rivalités group within Scènes de la vie de province in la Comédie humaine, published in 1844 by édition Furne.
La Vieille Fille at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52831
Do you all actually follow people on #bookwyrm ?
Who then? Friends? Critics?
I read mostly children and teenager #books. Who would you advice me to follow?
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Making Sense of The Nutcracker’s Libretto
Early audiences loved it, even as critics questioned its structure. Returning to the story helps illuminate what makes the ballet so strangely captivating.
By: Angelica Frey
https://daily.jstor.org/making-sense-of-the-nutcrackers-libretto/
Ballet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/26513
I've finished: The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa
When I purchased a novel translated from Arabic I was expecting something more local. What I got is a universal appeal to the power of imagination and the role of stories in our humanity.
I learned about Zorba the Greek, Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland as they struggle to survive in the grip of 1984.
I watched a man and his daughter struggle to retain their humanity in the face of a totalitarian regime.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8b7e9b13-a81e-44c4-9bc7-e46b5142e1ae
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📚 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Full Color Edition by: Dr. Seuss
Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!
Not since "Twas the night before Christmas" has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly r...
https://bookblabla.com/book/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-full-color-edition
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#OTD in 1849.
American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe
Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481
"Tupi or not tupi - That is the question."
Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.
Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic Oswald de Andrade died #OTD in 1954.
Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna).
Free @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1462617
Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?
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📚 I Sang You Down from the Stars by: Tasha Spillett, Tasha Spillett-Sumner
As she waits for the arrival of her new baby, a mother-to-be gathers gifts to create a sacred bundle. A white feather, cedar and sage, a stone from the river...
Each addition to the bundle will offer the new baby strength and connection to traditi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/i-sang-you-down-from-the-stars
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This week's net.wars, "The Arizona way of death", revisits a 1990s TV encounter with three immortals while reading Aleks Krotoski's new book, The Immortalists: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/15/the-arizona-way-of-death/ #NetWars #books #tescreal
Edited 157d ago
German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born #OTD in 1668.
He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.
The debut of a dramatic duo
Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood's transition to "talkies", as a 25-year-old unknown.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/
More information about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@skiffyandfanty/116415839960199428
My newest review tackles THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY
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I’m enjoying listening to The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, one of the new crop of murder-mystery/fantasy mixed-genre books, with a good amateur investigatory team and a slow(ish)-burn gay romance.
But I did get very immature about this line: “…with a moan that emanated straight from his groin”.
…ah, chatty little fellow, is he? 😂
📚 This River Awakens by: Steven Erikson
A coming-of-age tale set in a small Canadian town in which a twelve-year-old boy discovers the hard truths about life, death and love over a summer break.
In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, ...
50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436
Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?
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Islands of the Imagination
By Livia Gershon
A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.
Original article (from the archives):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43876781?mag=islands-of-the-imagination
Atlantis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1523
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
As a royally appointed playwright, Shakespeare was deeply affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as is clear in the writing of the great tragedy Macbeth less than a year later.
https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/
Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.
Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death
By Jessica Steinberg
https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/
In December 1891.
Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto" (collected in Life's Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies
Life's Little Ironies at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047
Banned in Texas
Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos's USA trilogy.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/
John Dos passos at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015
