Iuppi, vem aí o fim-de-semana! / Weekend is coming!

O piropo poético

Sissi, a leitora / Sissi, the reading princess

Iuppi, vem aí o fim-de-semana! / Weekend is coming!

O que extraem os leitores dos livros? / Woman reading with cat

"Os leitores extraem dos livros, consoante o seu carácter, a exemplo da abelha ou da aranha que, do suco das flores retiram, uma o mel, a outra o veneno".

Friedrich Nietzsche

Iuppi, é 6ª feira!!! / It's Friday!

3 gatos leitores / 3 reading cats

Ayelén Rojí

Feliz Ano Novo! / Happy New Year!

Uma rapariga normal / A normal girl

"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Alice Hoffman, "Practical Magic"

Fim de semana, yes! / Weekend, oh yes!

6 dicas para escritores de John Steinbeck / 6 tips on writing from John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck, vencedor do  Pulitzer e do prémio Nobel dá 6 dicas para escritores, numa entrevista em 1975, para The Paris Review:

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

Fonte

Sherlock Holmes lê / Sherlock Holmes reads

Quando deve desistir de ler um livro? / When to give up on a book you’re reading

De Book Lust de Nancy Pearl, a Regra das 50 páginas pode influenciar as suas leituras:

"Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a book they aren’t enjoying but think they ought to read. I live by what I call ‘the rule of fifty,’ which acknowledges that time is short and the world of books is immense. If you’re fifty years old or younger, give every book about fifty pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you’re over fifty, which is when time gets even shorter, subtract your age from 100. The result is the number of pages you should read before deciding".

Bebe um copito para afogar as mágoas / "Drink today, and drown all sorrow"

Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.

Ben Jonson

Um livro fonte em Budapeste / A book fountain in Budapest

Iupi, vem aí o fim de semana! / Weekend is coming, YES!

O poder da imaginação / The power of imagination

“Um raciocínio lógico leva-o de A até B.
A imaginação leva-o a qualquer lugar que você quiser.”

Albert Einstein

Macaco de imitação / "Different is great"

"Não imites nada nem ninguém.
Um leão que copia um leão torna-se um macaco."

Victor Hugo

Primavera / Spring

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Iupi, vem aí o fim de semana! / Weekend is coming, YES!