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  The world looks big and vague, we know we have barriers between one another, the barriers can be language, distance and even an ocean. Barriers can be visual or not. To grow up isolated from what the actual meaning of freedom is, when it’s given, it can be so confusing that even a simple decision of interests can be conflicted. This book by Luisa Sobral made me think on how the perspective of one, can change so many times due to the new information that little by little construct a pyramid of knowledge, now the big question is which steps are true and which steps are disguised as truth. Innocence of a child is a beautiful thing. The world seems brighter and the ones that care for us seem like the most wonderful people we have ever met. We as children joke and wish for time to be faster so we can be seated at the same level as our supposed heroes but when we reach that line, it’s not quite what we were expecting. We wanted to have the tough conversations with our parents, to rev...

Life is made of three stages, birth, growth and death. And in these stages, there are a lot of smaller moments that then make an impact on the following stage, if you are brought into this world in a certain way, your growth might be different and maybe even your death will be unusual. In this book, many characters are brought up in different ways, they growth is not like nay other, no matter how similar. However, the connections one makes in these stages can affect how one perceives the ending. From an old man who held no sons or daughters of his own to a father figure and then to something more. The main character is one simple man who never wished for much but for simple love and caring people that surrounded him. During his growth it was supposed to come but it didn’t, now in the present he is the character that unites all the odd ones out. Camilo is a lonely boy still to young to understand the future ahead and he needs guidance for what might come. He still remembers parts of...

  Death is complex. If death was a person, no other could reach its level of insight. Death is unable to wait, to stop or to rush time, but we humans blame death for doing it so. In this book I saw death with different eyes. For all the times people and I have said death is an evil being, I now change my answer to Death is complex, it can’t only take us this far. This is yet another book I read in Portuguese and although the form of the text did trip me up in the beginning as the narrative kept showing me all these new events my eyes were now stuck to the pages. The one-page long paragraphs may seem intimidating but when you read them it’s like looking at a fish going down a river, simple and quick. The book starts with the big news of Death no longer working. People would not die, if they were by death’s door they would still not die. The ill could improve but the most crucial cases and the elderly were hanging on because Death was on strike. She didn’t want money, and she did...

  Metaphors and perspective is something that is taught through life lessons and sometimes by people close to us. This book teaches these lessons like second nature, students wouldn’t even realize the lesson has started even if the bell rang with this book. The way the book sails through the narrative and makes the reader learn how characters are and how they can even look alike people close to us and create perspective in daily metaphors is astonishing. I read this book in Portuguese and the title is “Espuma dos Dias”. When I began reading it felt like another world like experience for, I couldn’t quite locate where he was or how he looked like however as the interactions appear I started to develop a picture not on the descriptions but on his way of being. Like when someone tells a story, and we can’t stop ourselves but to rethink of a similar event that occurred to us but with different people, places and times. This book was like eavesdropping on someone’s autobiography but b...

  This was a surprise. I love this author with all my heart and I know I will be taken through a very eye opening travels and adventures when I have one of her books with me. However this one was underwhelming, not disappointing just smaller then what I was expecting. The first book was something so exciting, she traveled through seas and far away lands that no one knew much about, she dressed as a man to survive and she did it all while still pretty young. Her granddaughter is much more steady. She is someone so manipulated that it’s almost infuriating to see how some events could produce an arc or even a small development and she simply doesn’t. She has such a dark beginning and she is just known for having a very rich and ambitious grandmother, a very united family that she married into just because it was expected. And she loves photography. I love the relation that photography has with the end of the first book. It was nice to see how the passion of the granddaughter is so...

 This was an awful read in the beginning but it got better as I went along. It took a while but I managed to find a good part of the book interesting and I ended the book being somewhat satisfied. The beginning has a lot to be desired. The main character is very repetitive and it came to a point that her lines were so cringe I had to close the book just to make a mental pause. She starts off as a desperate woman, someone who we are supposed to feel empathy. She wants to be liked, she wants to get this amazing job however she does not put in the work. She is desperate for this job and yet she zooms out of the conversation just to look over the furniture and the living area. She wants to go under the radar to avoid problems so she makes up a lie and is never clear about anything. Really that whole thing with the glasses was so dramatic. She then goes off with the whole crush thing and how handsome he is. I did a drinking game over how many times she said the word handsome, (please do...