Categoria: Livros

Suggestion: ‘International Speculative Fiction’ E-Zine

For all the curious minds out there: Have you read the first issue of ISF? I’ll leave you with my opinion about this new online magazine. Hope you enjoy it!

Notwithstanding the short story’s reviews posted earlier, I wanted to leave my opinion to the ISF e-zine as a whole.

My first take on this is that it’s based on concept quite new and it’s a good idea to divulge non-Anglophone authors and their writings. English is the language of the modern world after all and it does make sense that most writers end up experimenting in its realms. read more

Review/Opinião: ‘A Hunger Like No Other’ by Kresley Cole

This was my first Reading Romances book for the current month challenge. In Topics: N.º 3: Read a book that is part of a series.

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Review: “The Wind-Blown Man” by Aliette de Bodard in ISF

I confess, I had to read it a couple of times to be able to discern if I missed something between the lines (probably did anyway). I want to give it the due credit for the world-building. Research and dedication should always be praised and on Bodard’s case they are recurrent.

But I also thought that even though it’s not a new idea it could be easily missed if the author hadn’t commented on it. Ended up with a feeling that some of the concepts get swallowed by the story progression and that the reader gets tangled, trying to understand a new world without the proper guidance. read more

Review/Opinião: “The Death of Mr. Teodorescu” de Cristian-Mihail Teodorescu na ISF

Nas palavras do autor, Cristian-Mihail Teodorescu, esta é uma história sobre os problemas nos sistemas nacionais de saúde da actualidade, sobre a rentabilização do sistema através do uso dos pacientes como peças sobressalentes e sobre os princípios puramente económicos que regem a nossa sociedade.

Para mim é uma crítica directa ao papel dos governos no tratamento dos indivíduos que o compõem, à negação da dor de outrem e ao egoísmo calculista dos seres humanos. read more

Reading Romances Challenge: June Completed

Hi all. This is my Reading Romances Challenge monthly status. June challenge brought us a lot of variety.

In Topics we could choose between fairytales, sports or any stand-alone book. In themes there were weddings and all things related, m/m romance and all royal titles included. And the special event theme was the repeat day which made us find an author with the same initial letter in their first and last names. read more