[REVIEW] Upstream

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So, it´s time to say goodbye to this collection…
I have been reading and re-reading it and never wanting to stop… Jumping from page 56, to 21, to 110, to 5 … It was like that for more than 2 years...
The only solution I found was to buy other Mary Oliver´s books (2) in the meanwhile, so I could have (2) reasons to take this one away from my night stand. And so I did, I finished it.
I enjoyed all her reflections, although as a vegetarian I struggled a bit while reading about eating turtle eggs… The chapter about Whitman was not so simple, I took my time and probably need to revisit it a few more times before fully understand it --> it´s poetry in a language different than my native one, after all…
But it´s beautiful! It´s peaceful, it highlighted beauty in birds, dogs, wind, trees… it made me love just the fact I am alive…


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[REVIEW] The Complete MAUS

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book doesn't need introductions. It also doesn't need any review from me: it's one of the highest rated books on Goodreads, it won the Pulitzer prize... I mean, do you really need an excuse to read this?
But here is what I would like to share with you: read this, and read more. You might fall in love with reading, if you're not already there. Some experts suggest we are already forgetting that the Holocaust really happened, some schools would like to remove the subject from history books becasue it's not appropriate to children...
Please, read this, share it with your friends and family and make sure Humanity willl never forget one of the darkest episodes of its History.

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Prémios Pulitzer 2016

Os vencedores deste prémio que consagra o jornalismo e as artes nos Estados Unidos foram anunciados ontem! 

O jornalismo focou-se muito na crise dos refugiados (as fotografias são incríveis -- como sempre -- algumas lindíssimas, ainda que a mostrar uma realidade tenebrosa).

Os livros deixaram-me bastante curiosa... São eles:

FICÇÃO

The Sympathizer, por Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)

Um conto de imigração em tom irónico, contado por um homem de duas caras e dois países: Vietname e Estados Unidos.

BIOGRAFIA ou AUTOBIOGRAFIA

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, por William Finnegan (Penguin Press)

Um livro de memórias sobre uma obsessão juvenil que impulsionou o autor para uma ilustre carreira de escritor.

HISTÓRIA (dos EUA, pois está claro!)

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, por T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)

Uma nova e surpreendente narrativa da viagem do icónico soldado americano cuja morte não foi o ponto alto da sua vida.

POESIA

Ozone Journal, por Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)

Poemas que testemunham as antigas perdas e tragédias que sustentam uma era global de perigo e incerteza.

NÃO-FICÇÃO

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, por Joby Warrick (Doubleday)

Um livro que relata com uma nitidez notável como a falha de raciocínio para a Guerra do Iraque levou ao crescimento explosivo do Estado islâmico.

Vejam os prémios todos aqui: 

http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2016